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[CITE: 16USC460vv-6]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
    SUBCHAPTER CVII--WINDING STAIR MOUNTAIN NATIONAL RECREATION AND 
                             WILDERNESS AREA
 
Sec. 460vv-6. Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area


(a) Establishment

    In order to ensure the conservation and protection of certain 
natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, and fish and wildlife values and to 
provide for the enhancement of the recreational values associated 
therewith, there is hereby established the Winding Stair Mountain 
National Recreation Area located in the Ouachita National Forest, 
Oklahoma.

(b) Area included

    The Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area (hereafter in 
this subchapter referred to as the ``recreation area'') shall comprise 
approximately 26,445 acres as generally depicted on the map entitled 
``Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation Area--Proposed'', dated 
March 1988, which shall be on file and available for public inspection 
in the Office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

(c) Maps and description

    The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter in this section referred 
to as the ``Secretary'') shall, as soon as practicable after October 18, 
1988, file a map and a legal description of the recreation area with the 
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on 
Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the United States 
Senate and each such map and legal description shall have the same force 
and effect as if included in this subchapter; except that correction of 
clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may 
be made. The map and legal description shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture.

(d) Administration

    The Secretary shall administer the recreation area in accordance 
with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the national forests 
in such manner as will best further the purposes of this section, as set 
forth in subsection (a) of this section. Management and utilization of 
natural resources within the recreation area shall be permitted to the 
extent such management and utilization is compatible with and does not 
impair the purposes for which the recreation area is established.

(e) Timber management

    Any sales of timber from within the recreation area shall be 
designed so as to not detract from the scenic values of the recreation 
area. Management practices that would detract from the scenic quality 
and natural beauty within view from the Talimena Drive or the Holson 
Valley Road shall not be conducted in the recreation area. Unevenaged 
timber management shall be the timber management practice in the 
recreation area, except that the Secretary may use evenaged management 
practices in order to promote public safety, mitigate the effects of 
fire, insects, and disease, or allow scenic vistas and recreational 
development or if such practices result in irregular cuts behind 
geographic barriers blocking the view from the Talimena Drive and the 
Holson Valley Road.

(Pub. L. 100-499, Sec. 8, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2494.)

                         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.
