Volume 96 · 2033
Public Law 97–407
To designate certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, which comprise approximately six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight acres, and which are generally depicted on a map entitled “Paddy Creek Wilderness Area”, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Approved January 3, 1983
Statutory text
An Act
To designate certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, which comprise approximately six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight acres, and which are generally depicted on a map entitled “Paddy Creek Wilderness Area”, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That this Act
Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981.
16 USC 1132 note.
16 USC 1131 note.
may be known as the Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981.
Sec. 2.
In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890) and the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat. 2096), the following area as generally depicted on a map appropriately referenced, dated December 1981, is hereby designated as wilderness and, therefore, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri, which comprise about six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled “Paddy Creek Wilderness Area”, dated December 1981, and shall be known as the Paddy Creek Wilderness Area.
Sec. 3.
As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the
Map and legal description, filing with congressional committees.
Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the Paddy Creek Wilderness Area with the Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the Senate and the Committees on Agriculture and Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, and such map and legal 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. 4.
The area designated as wilderness by this Act shall be
Effective date.
administered in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890) and the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat.
16 USC 1131 note.
2096), except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of such Acts shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act.
Sec. 5.
The Congress finds that—
the Department of Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and
(2) Review and evaluation.
the Congress has made its own review and examination of National Forest System roadless areas in the State of Missouri and of the environmental impacts associated with alternative allocations of such areas.
On the basis of such review, the Congress hereby determines and directs that—
without passing on the question of the legal and factual sufficiency of the RARE II Final Environmental Statement (dated January 1979) with respect to National Forest System lands in States other than Missouri such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Missouri;
(2) Review and evaluation.
with respect to the National Forest System lands in the State of Missouri which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE ID, except those lands remaining in further planning upon enactment of this Act, or designated as wilderness by this Act or previous Acts of Congress that review and evaluation shall be deemed for the purposes of the initial land management plans required for such lands by the Forest and Rangeland
16 USC 1600 note.
16 USC 1600 note.
Renewal Resources Planning Act of 1974 as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–588) to be an adequate consideration of the suitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System and the Department of Agriculture shall not be required to review the wilderness option prior to the revision of the initial plans and in no case prior to the date established by law for completion of the initial planning cycle;
areas in the State of Missouri reviewed in such final environmental statement and not designated as wilderness by this Act or previous Acts of Congress or remaining in further planning upon enactment of this Act shall be managed for multiple use pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland
16 USC 1600 note.
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976; and
unless expressly authorized by Congress the Department of
Review and evaluation.
Agriculture shall not conduct any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of National Forest System lands in the State of Missouri for the purpose of determining their suitability for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Approved January 3, 1983.