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A RESOLUTION ENDORSING ItRf 2917-10 DESIGNATE CERTAIN
PUBLIC LANDS IN NORTH -CENTRAL NORTHWESTERN, AND WESTERN
ARKANSAS AS ADDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WILDERNESS
PRESERVATION SYSTEM.
.WHEREAS, Arkansas Congressman. Ed Bethune has introduced
H.R. 2917. to designate certain public lands in_Nor-th_-Central,
Northwestern,. and Western Arkansas as additions to the
National Wilderness Preservation System; and
WHEREAS, a copy of said bill is attached hereto, marked
Exhibit "A" andmadea part hereof; and
WHEREAS, the Fayetteville Board of Directors desires to
endorse said bill.
NOW, THEREFORE, be itresolved by the Board of Directors
of the. City of Fayetteville, Arkansas:
Section. 1: That the Board of Directors of the City of
Fayetteville, Arkansas hereby strongly endorses H.R. 2917.
Section 2: A copy of this resolution shall be forwarded
by the City Clerk to the entire Arkansas Congressional
delegation.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 15th day of Novenber
1983.
APPROVED:
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To designate certain public lands in north -central, northwestern, and western
Arkansas as additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System.
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MAY 5, 1:1$3
Mr. BETIII•NE introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Agriculture and Interior and Insular Affairs
A BILL
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To designate certain public lands in north -central, northwestern,
and western Arkansas as additions to the National Wilder-
ness Preservation System.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tines of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled,
3 That this Act may be cited as the "Arkansas Wilderness Act
4 of 1983".
5 SEC. 2. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilder -
6 ness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131-1136), the following lands are
7 hereby designated as Nyilderness and, therefore, as compo -
8 nents of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
9 (1) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest,
® 10 Arkansas, which comprise approximately eight thou-
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1 •sand one hundred acres, as generally depicted on a
2 • map entitled "Black Fork Mountain Wilderness Pro -
3 posed", May 1983, and which shall be known as the
4 Black Fork Mountain Wilderness;
5 (2) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest,
6 Arkansas, which comprise approximately six thousand
7 four hundred and seventy acres, as generally depicted
8 on a map entitled "Dry Creek Wilderness—Proposed",
9 dated May 1983, and which shall be known as the Dry
10 Creek Wilderness;
11 (3) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest,
12 Arkansas, which comprise approximately nineteen
13 . thousand seven hundred and twenty-five acres, as gen-
14 crally depicted on a map entitled "East Fork Wilder -
15 ness—Proposed", d itcd May 1983, and which shall be •
16 known as the East Fork Wilderness;
17 (4) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest,
- 18 Arkansas, which comprise approximately ten thousand
19 eight Inunlred and eight' -five acres, as generally de -
4,0 liirtrd nn a map entitled "Flatside 'Wilderness—Pro-
_'I ])aed". dated \lay 1988, and which shall be known as
_'_' the 1.1atside Wilderness;
'2:3 (51 curtain lands in the Ozark National Forest,
24 Arkansas, which comprise approximately sixteen thou-
sand acres, enerally depicted on a map entitled
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"Hurricane Creek Wilderness—Proposed", dated May
2 1983, and which shall be known as the Hurricane
3 Creek Wilderness;
4 (6) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest,
5 Arkansas, which comprise approximately fifteen thou -
6 sand three hundred acres, as generally depicted on a
7 map entitled "Leatherwood Wilderness—Proposed",
8 dated May 1983, and which shall be known as the
9 Leatherwood Wilderness;
10 (7) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest,
11 Arkansas, which comprise approximately twelve .thou -
12 • sand and ten acres, as generally depicted on a map en -
13 titled "Penhook Wilderness—Proposed", dated May
14 1983, and which shall be known as the Penhook Wil -
15 derness;
16 (8) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest,
17 Arkansas, which comprise approximately seventeen
18 thousand five hundred acres, as generally depicted on a
19 map entitled "Poteau Mountain Wilderness—Pro-
20 posed", dated May 1983, and which shall be known as
21 the Poteau Mountain Wilderness;
22 (9) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest,
23 Arkansas, which comprise approximately eleven thou-
• 24 sand seven hundred and ninety acres, as generally de -
25 picted on a map entitled "Richland Creek Wilder-
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1 ness—Proposed", dated May 1983, and which shall be
2 known as the Richland Creek Wilderness;
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(10) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest,
4 Arkansas, which comprise approximately one thousand
5 five hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map en -
6 titled "Upper Buffalo Wilderness Addition—Pro-
7 posed", dated May 1983, and which are hereby incor-
8 porated in, and shall be deemed to be part of, the
9 Upper Buffalo Wilderness as designated by Public Law
10 93-622; and
11 (11) certain lands in the Ouachita National
12 Forest, Arkansas, which comprise approximately three
13 hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled
14 "Upper Kiamichi Wilderness—Proposed", dated May
15 1983, and which shall be known as the Upper Kiami-
16 chi Wilderness.
17 (b) Subject to valid existing rights, the wilderness areas
18 designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary
19 of Agriculture (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the
20 "Secretary„)
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in accordance with the provisions of the Wil -
Act or -1964 (16 U.S.0 1131-1136) governing areas
designated by that Act as vwilderness except that any refer-
ence in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness
Act shall he deemed to he a reference to the effective date of
this .Act.
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1 (c) As soon as practicable after the date of the enact -
2 ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit maps and legal
3 descriptions of each wilderness area designated by subsection
4 (a) to the Committee on Energy .and Natural Resources of
5 the Senate and the Committees on Agriculture and Interior
6 and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives. Each
7 such snap and legal description shall have the s.nne force and
8 effect as if included in this Act, except that any clerical or
9 typographical error in such maps or legal descriptions may be
10 corrected. The Secretary shall place such maps and legal de-
ll scriptions on file, and make them available for public inspec-
12 tion, in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Depart -
13 ment of Agriculture.
14 SEC. 3. (a) The Congress finds that the Department of
15 Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review
16 and evaluation program (RARE II).
17 (b) On tht basis of such review, the Congress herebv
18 determines and directs that -
19 (1) without passing on the question of the legal
20 and factual sufficiency of the RARE II final environ -
21 mental statement. (dated January 1979) with respect to
22 national forest system lands in States other than Ar
23 kansas, such statement shall .not be subject to judicial
• 24 review with respect to national forest system lands in
25 the State of Arkansas;
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1 • (2) with respect to the national forest system
2 lands in the State of Arkansas which were reviewed by
3 the Department of Agriculture. in the second roadless
4 area review and evaluation (RARE 11), that review
5 and evaluation shall be deemed for the purposes of the
6 initial land management plans required for such lands
7 by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources
8 Planning Act of 1974 as amended by the National
9 Forest Management Act of 1976 to be an adequate
10 consideration of the suitability of such lands for inclu-
11 sion in the National Wilderness Preservation System
12 and the Department of Agriculture shall not be re -
13 quired to review the wilderness option prior to the re -
14 vision of the initial plans and in no case prior to the
15 date established by law for completion of the initial
16 planning cycle;
17 (3) areas in the State of Arkansas reviewed in
18 such final environmental statement and not designated
19 as wilderness by this Act need not be managed for the
20 purpose of protecting their suitability for wilderness
21 designation pending revision of the initial plans; and
22 (4) unless expressly authorized by Congress the
23 Department of Agriculture shall not conduct any fur -
24 ther statewide roadless area review and evaluation of
25 national forest system lands in the State of Arkansas
I for the purpose of determining their suitability for in -
2 elusion in theNational Wilderness Preservation
3 System.
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