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[CITE: 16USC460vv-4]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
    SUBCHAPTER CVII--WINDING STAIR MOUNTAIN NATIONAL RECREATION AND 
                             WILDERNESS AREA
 
Sec. 460vv-4. Wilderness review


(a) Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second 
    roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and
        (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of 
    National Forest System roadless areas in Oklahoma and of the 
    environmental impacts associated with alternative allocations of 
    such areas.

(b) Congressional determination and direction

    On the basis of such review, the Congress hereby determines and 
directs that--
        (1) without passing on the questions of the legal and factual 
    sufficiency of the RARE II Final Environmental Impact Statement 
    (dated January 1979) with respect to National Forest System lands in 
    States other than Oklahoma, such statement shall not be subject to 
    judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the 
    State of Oklahoma;
        (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the 
    State of Oklahoma which were reviewed by the Department of 
    Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE 
    II) and those lands referred to in subsection (d) of this section, 
    that review and evaluation or reference shall be deemed for the 
    purposes of the initial land management plans required for such 
    lands by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 
    of 1974 [16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.], as amended by the National Forest 
    Management Act of 1976, to be an adequate consideration of the 
    suitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness 
    Preservation System and the Department of Agriculture shall not be 
    required to review the wilderness option prior to the revision of 
    the plans, but shall review the wilderness option when the plans are 
    revised, which revisions will ordinarily occur on a ten-year cycle, 
    or at least every fifteen years, unless, prior to such time the 
    Secretary of Agriculture finds that conditions in a unit have 
    significantly changed;
        (3) areas in the State of Oklahoma reviewed in such final 
    environmental statement or referenced in subsection (d) of this 
    section and not designated wilderness upon enactment of this 
    subchapter shall be managed for multiple use in accordance with land 
    management plans pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland 
    Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 [16 U.S.C. 1604], as 
    amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, except that 
    such areas need not be managed for the purpose of protecting their 
    suitability for wilderness designation prior to or during revision 
    of the initial land management plans;
        (4) in the event that revised land management plans in the State 
    of Oklahoma are implemented pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and 
    Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 [16 U.S.C. 1604], 
    as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and other 
    applicable law, areas not recommended for wilderness designation 
    need not be managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability 
    for wilderness designation prior to or during revision of such 
    plans, and areas recommended for wilderness designation shall be 
    managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability for 
    wilderness designation as may be required by the Forest and 
    Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 [16 U.S.C. 1600 
    et seq.], as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, 
    and other applicable law; and
        (5) unless expressly authorized by Congress, the Department of 
    Agriculture shall not conduct any further statewide roadless area 
    review and evaluation of the National Forest System lands in the 
    State of Oklahoma for the purpose of determining their suitability 
    for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System.

(c) Use of term

    As used in this section, and as provided in section 6 of the Forest 
and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 [16 U.S.C. 1604], 
as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, the term 
``revision'' shall not include an ``amendment'' to a plan.

(d) Application of provisions

    The provisions of this section shall also apply to:
        (1) those National Forest System roadless lands in the State of 
    Oklahoma in the Ouachita National Forest which were evaluated in the 
    Rich Mountain and Beech Creek unit plans; and
        (2) National Forest System roadless lands in the State of 
    Oklahoma which are less than five thousand acres in size.

(Pub. L. 100-499, Sec. 6, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2493.)

                       References in Text

    The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, 
referred to in subsec. (b)(2), (4), is Pub. L. 93-378, Aug. 17, 1974, 88 
Stat. 476, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter I 
(Sec. 1600 et seq.) of chapter 36 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1600 of this title and Tables.
    The National Forest Management Act of 1976, referred to in subsecs. 
(b)(2)-(4) and (c), is Pub. L. 94-588, Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2949, as 
amended, which enacted sections 472a, 521b, 1600, and 1611 to 1614 of 
this title, amended sections 500, 515, 516, 518, 576b, and 1601 to 1610 
of this title, repealed sections 476, 513, and 514 of this title, and 
enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 476, 513, 528, 594-2, 
and 1600 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Short Title of 1976 Amendment note set out under section 1600 
of this title and Tables.
