Volume 83 · 101
Public Law 91–58
To designate the Ventana Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest, in the State of California.
Approved August 18, 1969
Statutory text
AN ACT
To designate the Ventana Wilderness, Los 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
Ventana Wilderness, Calif.
Designation.
with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 Stat. 891), the area classified as the Ventana Primitive Area, with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom, as generally depicted on a map entitled “Ventana Wilderness—Proposed,” dated March 14, 1969, 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 Ventana Wilderness within and as a part of Los Padres National Forest, comprising an area of approximately ninety-eight thousand acres.
Sec. 2.
As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secretary
Filing of map, etc.
of the Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the Ventana 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 Ventana Wilderness shall be administered by the Secretary
Administration.
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.
Sec. 4.
The previous classification of the Ventana Primitive Area is hereby abolished.
Approved August 18, 1969.