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Volume 82 · 52

Public Law 90–271

To designate the San Rafael Wilderness, Las Padres National Forest, in the State of California.

Approved March 21, 1968

Statutory text

AN ACT

To designate the San Rafael Wilderness, Las Padres National Forest, in the State of California.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That, in accordance

San Rafael Wilderness, Calif.

Designation.

16 USC 1132.

with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 Stat. 891), the area classified as the San Rafael Primitive Area, with the proposed additions thereto, as generally depicted on a map entitled “San Rafael Wilderness—Proposed,” dated October 3, 1966, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, is hereby designated as the San Rafael Wilderness within and as a part of Los Padres National Forest, comprising an area of approximately 143,000 acres.

Sec. 2.

As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the

Filing of map and information with Congress.

Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the San Rafael Wilderness with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives and such description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may be made.

Sec. 3.

The San Rafael Wilderness shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act.

Approved March 21, 1968.

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