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[CITE: 16USC460uu-41]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER CVI--EL MALPAIS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND CONSERVATION AREA
 
                       Part E--General Provisions
 
Sec. 460uu-41. Management plans


(a) Development and transmittal to Congress; contents

    Within three full fiscal years following the fiscal year of 
enactment of this subchapter, the Secretary shall develop and transmit 
to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the United States Senate, separate general management plans 
for the monument and the conservation area which shall describe the 
appropriate uses and development of the monument and the conservation 
area consistent with the purposes of this subchapter. The plans shall 
include but not be limited to each of the following:
        (1) implementation plans for a continuing program of 
    interpretation and public education about the resources and values 
    of the monument and the conservation area;
        (2) proposals for public facilities to be developed for the 
    conservation area or the monument, including a visitors center in 
    the vicinity of Bandera Crater and a multiagency orientation center, 
    to be located in or near Grants, New Mexico, and adjacent to 
    Interstate 40, to accommodate visitors to western New Mexico;
        (3) natural and cultural resources management plans for the 
    monument and the conservation area, with a particular emphasis on 
    the preservation and long-term scientific use of archeological 
    resources, giving high priority to the enforcement of the provisions 
    of the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 [16 U.S.C. 
    470aa et seq.] and the National Historic Preservation Act [16 U.S.C. 
    470 et seq.] within the monument and the conservation area. The 
    natural and cultural resources management plans shall be prepared in 
    close consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic 
    Preservation, the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office, and 
    the local Indian people and their traditional cultural and religious 
    authorities; and such plans shall provide for long-term scientific 
    use of archaeological resources in the monument and the conservation 
    area, including the wilderness areas designated by this subchapter; 
    and
        (4) wildlife resources management plans for the monument and the 
    conservation area prepared in close consultation with appropriate 
    departments of the State of New Mexico and using previous studies of 
    the area.

(b) Review and recommendation of suitability or nonsuitability of 
        specific lands

    (1) The general management plan for the conservation area shall 
review and recommend the suitability or nonsuitability for preservation 
as wilderness of those lands comprising approximately 17,468 acres, 
identified as ``Wilderness Study Area'' (hereafter in this part referred 
to as the ``WSA'') on the map referenced in section 460uu of this title.
    (2) Pending submission of a recommendation and until otherwise 
directed by an Act of Congress, the Secretary, acting through the 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management, shall manage the lands within 
the WSA so as to maintain their potential for inclusion within the 
National Wilderness Preservation System.

(c) Review and recommendation of suitability or nonsuitability of 
        roadless lands

    (1) The general management plan for the monument shall review and 
recommend the suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as 
wilderness of all roadless lands within the boundaries of the monument 
as established by this subchapter except those lands within the areas 
identified as ``potential development areas'' on the map referenced in 
section 460uu of this title.
    (2) Pending the submission of a recommendation and until otherwise 
directed by Act of Congress, the Secretary, through the Director of the 
National Park Service, shall manage all roadless lands within the 
boundaries of the monument so as to maintain their potential for 
inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, except those 
lands within the areas identified as ``potential development areas'' on 
the map referenced in section 460uu of this title.

(Pub. L. 100-225, title V, Sec. 501, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1543.)

                       References in Text

    The fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter, referred to in 
subsec. (a), is the fiscal year of the enactment of Pub. L. 100-225, 
which enacted this subchapter, and was approved Dec. 31, 1987.
    The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, referred to in 
subsec. (a)(3), is Pub. L. 96-95, Oct. 31, 1979, 93 Stat. 721, which is 
classified generally to chapter 1B (Sec. 470aa et seq.) of this title. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title 
note set out under section 470aa of this title and Tables.
    The National Historic Preservation Act, referred to in subsec. 
(a)(3), is Pub. L. 89-665, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 915, as amended, 
which is classified generally to subchapter II (Sec. 470 et seq.) of 
chapter 1A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see section 470 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 460uu-47, 460uu-48 of this 
title.
