Public Law 92–493

That, in accordance with section 3(c) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 892; 16 U.S.C. 1132(c)), those lands within the area generally known as the Black Lava Flow in the Lava Beds National Monument comprising about ten thousand acres, as depicted on the map entitled “Wilderness Plan, Lava Beds National Monument, California”, numbered NMLB—3227H and dated August 1972, and those lands within the area generally known as the Schonchin Lava Flow comprising about eighteen thousand four hundred and sixty acres, as depicted on such map, are hereby designated as wilderness. The map and a description of the boundary of such lands shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

Sec. 2.

As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, a map of

Map and description, filing with congressional committees.

the wilderness area and a description of its boundaries shall be filed with the Interior and Insular Affair’s Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such map and 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 map and description may be made.

Sec. 3.

The area designated by this Act as wilderness shall be

Administration.

known as the “Lava Beds Wilderness” and shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness

78 Stat. 890.

16 USC 1131 note.

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 any reference to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary of the Interior.