16 USC Ch. 23: Front Matter
From Title 16-CONSERVATIONCHAPTER 23-NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM
CHAPTER 23-NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM
Sec.
1131.
National Wilderness Preservation System.
(a)
Establishment; Congressional declaration of policy; wilderness areas; administration for public use and enjoyment, protection, preservation, and gathering and dissemination of information; provisions for designation as wilderness areas.
(b)
Management of area included in System; appropriations.
(c)
"Wilderness" defined.
1132.
Extent of System.
(a)
Designation of wilderness areas; filing of maps and descriptions with Congressional committees; correction of errors; public records; availability of records in regional offices.
(b)
Review by Secretary of Agriculture of classifications as primitive areas; Presidential recommendations to Congress; approval of Congress; size of primitive areas; Gore Range-Eagles Nest Primitive Area, Colorado.
(c)
Review by Secretary of the Interior of roadless areas of national park system and national wildlife refuges and game ranges and suitability of areas for preservation as wilderness; authority of Secretary of the Interior to maintain roadless areas in national park system unaffected.
(d)
Conditions precedent to administrative recommendations of suitability of areas for preservation as wilderness; publication in Federal Register; public hearings; views of State, county, and Federal officials; submission of views to Congress.
(e)
Modification or adjustment of boundaries; public notice and hearings; administrative and executive recommendations to Congress; approval of Congress.
1133.
Use of wilderness areas.
(a)
Purposes of national forest, national park system, and national wildlife refuge system; other provisions applicable to national forests, Superior National Forest, and national park system.
(b)
Agency responsibility for preservation and administration to preserve wilderness character; public purposes of wilderness areas.
(c)
Prohibition provisions: commercial enterprise, permanent or temporary roads, mechanical transports, and structures or installations; exceptions: area administration and personal health and safety emergencies.
(d)
Special provisions.
1134.
State and private lands within wilderness areas.
(a)
Access; exchange of lands; mineral interests restriction.
(b)
Customary means for ingress and egress to wilderness areas subject to mining claims or other occupancies.
(c)
Acquisition of lands.
1135.
Gifts, bequests, and contributions.
(a)
Acceptance by Secretary of Agriculture of land for preservation as wilderness; regulations.
(b)
Authorization to accept private contributions and gifts.
1136.
Annual reports to Congress.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 90e, 90e–2, 272d, 273d, 410aaa, 410aaa–21, 410aaa–41, 410aaa–75, 410aaa–82, 460aa–1, 460dd–8, 460gg–1, 460ll, 460ll–1, 460oo, 460uu–31, 460uu–32, 460uu–47, 460vv–1, 460vv–3, 460bbb–3, 460ggg, 1281, 3102, 3150, 3199, 3203 of this title; title 42 section 12207; title 43 sections 1782, 1784.