Public Law 91–82

That, in accordance

Desolation Wilderness, Eldorado National Forest, 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 Desolation Valley Primitive Area, with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom as generally depicted on a map entitled “Desolation Wilderness—Proposed,” dated April 26, 1967, 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 Desolation Wilderness within and as part of the Eldorado National Forest, comprising an area of approximately sixty-three thousand five hundred acres.

Sec. 2.

As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secretary

Filing of map, etc.

of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the Desolation 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 Desolation Wilderness shall be administered by the

Administration.

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, and except that the owners and operators of existing federally licensed hydroelectric facilities shall have the right of reasonable access to the areas for purposes of operating and maintaining such facilities in a manner that is consistent with past practices without prior approval of the Secretary.

Sec. 4.

The previous classification of the Desolation Valley Primitive Area is hereby abolished.