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[CITE: 16USC460uu-31]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER CVI--EL MALPAIS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND CONSERVATION AREA
 
                           Part D--Wilderness
 
Sec. 460uu-31. Designation; description of area

    (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 
890) [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.], there are hereby designated as 
wilderness, and, therefore, as components of the National Wilderness 
Preservation System, the Cebolla Wilderness of approximately 60,000 
acres, and the West Malpais Wilderness of approximately 38,210 acres, as 
each is generally depicted on the map entitled ``El Malpais National 
Monument and National Conservation Area'' numbered NM-ELMA-80,001-B and 
dated May 1987. The map shall be on file and available for inspection in 
the offices of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department 
of the Interior.
    (b) As soon as practicable after December 31, 1987, the Secretary 
shall file a legal description of each wilderness area designated by 
this subchapter with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of 
the United States House of Representatives and with the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. Such legal 
description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this 
subchapter, except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
typographical errors in such legal description. The legal description 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of 
the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
Interior.

(Pub. L. 100-225, title IV, Sec. 401, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1542.)

                       References in Text

    The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 88-577, 
Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, as amended, which is classified generally 
to chapter 23 (Sec. 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1131 of this title and Tables.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House 
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
