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116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 3288
To provide for the protection of and investment in certain Federal land
in the State of California, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Ms. HARRIS (for herself and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources
A BILL To provide for the protection of and investment in certain
Federal land in the State of California, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘Protecting Unique and Beautiful Landscapes by Invest-5
ing in California Lands Act’’ or the ‘‘PUBLIC Lands 6
Act’’. 7
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 8
this Act is as follows: 9
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Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS, RECREATION,
AND WORKING FORESTS
Sec. 101. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 102. Definitions.
Subtitle A—Restoration and Economic Development
Sec. 111. South Fork Trinity-Mad River Restoration Area.
Sec. 112. Redwood National and State Parks restoration.
Sec. 113. California Public Lands Remediation Partnership.
Sec. 114. Trinity Lake visitor center.
Sec. 115. Del Norte County visitor center.
Sec. 116. Management plans.
Sec. 117. Study; partnerships related to overnight accommodations.
Subtitle B—Recreation
Sec. 121. Horse Mountain Special Management Area.
Sec. 122. Bigfoot National Recreation Trail.
Sec. 123. Elk Camp Ridge Recreation Trail.
Sec. 124. Trinity Lake Trail.
Sec. 125. Trails study.
Sec. 126. Construction of mountain bicycling routes.
Sec. 127. Partnerships.
Subtitle C—Conservation
Sec. 131. Designation of wilderness.
Sec. 132. Administration of wilderness.
Sec. 133. Designation of potential wilderness.
Sec. 134. Designation of wild and scenic rivers.
Sec. 135. Sanhedrin Special Conservation Management Area.
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous
Sec. 141. Maps and legal descriptions.
Sec. 142. Updates to land and resource management plans.
Sec. 143. Pacific Gas and Electric Company Utility facilities and rights-of-way.
TITLE II—CENTRAL COAST HERITAGE PROTECTION
Sec. 201. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 202. Definitions.
Sec. 203. Designation of wilderness.
Sec. 204. Designation of the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness.
Sec. 205. Administration of wilderness.
Sec. 206. Designation of wild and scenic rivers.
Sec. 207. Designation of the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness.
Sec. 208. Designation of scenic areas.
Sec. 209. Condor National Scenic Trail.
Sec. 210. Forest service study.
Sec. 211. Nonmotorized recreation opportunities.
Sec. 212. Use by members of Tribes.
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TITLE III—SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS FOOTHILLS AND RIVERS
PROTECTION
Sec. 301. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 302. Definition of State.
Subtitle A—San Gabriel National Recreation Area
Sec. 311. Purposes.
Sec. 312. Definitions.
Sec. 313. San Gabriel National Recreation Area.
Sec. 314. Management.
Sec. 315. Acquisition of non-Federal land within Recreation Area.
Sec. 316. Water rights; water resource facilities; public roads; utility facilities.
Sec. 317. San Gabriel National Recreation Area Public Advisory Council.
Sec. 318. San Gabriel National Recreation Area Partnership.
Sec. 319. Visitor services and facilities.
Subtitle B—San Gabriel Mountains
Sec. 321. Definitions.
Sec. 322. National monument boundary modification.
Sec. 323. Designation of wilderness areas and additions.
Sec. 324. Administration of wilderness areas and additions.
Sec. 325. Designation of wild and scenic rivers.
Sec. 326. Water rights.
TITLE I—NORTHWEST CALI-1
FORNIA WILDERNESS, RECRE-2
ATION, AND WORKING FOR-3
ESTS 4
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 5
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Northwest California 6
Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act’’. 7
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 8
In this title: 9
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 10
means— 11
(A) with respect to land under the jurisdic-12
tion of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Sec-13
retary of Agriculture; and 14
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(B) with respect to land under the jurisdic-1
tion of the Secretary of the Interior, the Sec-2
retary of the Interior. 3
(2) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 4
of California. 5
Subtitle A—Restoration and 6
Economic Development 7
SEC. 111. SOUTH FORK TRINITY-MAD RIVER RESTORATION 8
AREA. 9
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 10
(1) COLLABORATIVELY DEVELOPED.—The term 11
‘‘collaboratively developed’’ means projects that are 12
developed and implemented through a collaborative 13
process that— 14
(A) includes— 15
(i) appropriate Federal, State, and 16
local agencies; and 17
(ii) multiple interested persons rep-18
resenting diverse interests; and 19
(B) is transparent and nonexclusive. 20
(2) PLANTATION.—The term ‘‘plantation’’ 21
means a forested area that has been artificially es-22
tablished by planting or seeding. 23
(3) RESTORATION.—The term ‘‘restoration’’ 24
means the process of assisting the recovery of an 25
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ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or de-1
stroyed by establishing the composition, structure, 2
pattern, and ecological processes necessary to facili-3
tate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem sustainability, 4
resilience, and health under current and future con-5
ditions. 6
(4) RESTORATION AREA.—The term ‘‘restora-7
tion area’’ means the South Fork Trinity-Mad River 8
Restoration Area, established by subsection (b). 9
(5) SHADED FUEL BREAK.—The term ‘‘shaded 10
fuel break’’ means a vegetation treatment that effec-11
tively addresses all project-generated slash and that 12
retains: adequate canopy cover to suppress plant re-13
growth in the forest understory following treatment; 14
the longest lived trees that provide the most shade 15
over the longest period of time; the healthiest and 16
most vigorous trees with the greatest potential for 17
crown-growth in plantations and in natural stands 18
adjacent to plantations; and all mature hardwoods, 19
when practicable. 20
(6) STEWARDSHIP CONTRACT.—The term 21
‘‘stewardship contract’’ means an agreement or con-22
tract entered into under section 604 of the Healthy 23
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591c). 24
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(7) WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE.—The term 1
‘‘wildland-urban interface’’ has the meaning given 2
the term by section 101 of the Healthy Forests Res-3
toration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6511). 4
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—Subject to valid existing 5
rights, there is established the South Fork Trinity-Mad 6
River Restoration Area, comprising approximately 7
729,089 acres of Federal land administered by the Forest 8
Service and approximately 1,280 acres of Federal land ad-9
ministered by the Bureau of Land Management, as gen-10
erally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘South Fork Trinity- 11
Mad River Restoration Area—Proposed’’ and dated July 12
3, 2018, to be known as the South Fork Trinity-Mad 13
River Restoration Area. 14
(c) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the restoration area 15
are to— 16
(1) establish, restore, and maintain fire-resilient 17
forest structures containing late successional forest 18
structure characterized by large trees and multisto-19
ried canopies, as ecologically appropriate; 20
(2) protect late successional reserves; 21
(3) enhance the restoration of Federal lands 22
within the restoration area; 23
(4) reduce the threat posed by wildfires to com-24
munities within the restoration area; 25
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(5) protect and restore aquatic habitat and 1
anadromous fisheries; 2
(6) protect the quality of water within the res-3
toration area; and 4
(7) allow visitors to enjoy the scenic, rec-5
reational, natural, cultural, and wildlife values of the 6
restoration area. 7
(d) MANAGEMENT.— 8
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage 9
the restoration area— 10
(A) in a manner consistent with the pur-11
poses described in subsection (c); 12
(B) in a manner that— 13
(i) in the case of the Forest Service, 14
prioritizes restoration of the restoration 15
area over other nonemergency vegetation 16
management projects on the portions of 17
the Six Rivers and Shasta-Trinity National 18
Forests in Humboldt and Trinity Counties; 19
and 20
(ii) in the case of the United States 21
Fish and Wildlife Service, establishes with 22
the Forest Service an agreement for co-23
operation to ensure timely completion of 24
consultation required by section 7 of the 25
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Endangered Species Act (15 U.S.C. 1536) 1
on restoration projects within the restora-2
tion area and agreement to maintain and 3
exchange information on planning sched-4
ules and priorities on a regular basis; 5
(C) in accordance with— 6
(i) the laws (including regulations) 7
and rules applicable to the National Forest 8
System for land managed by the Forest 9
Service; 10
(ii) the Federal Land Policy and Man-11
agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 12
seq.) for land managed by the Bureau of 13
Land Management; 14
(iii) this title; and 15
(iv) any other applicable law (includ-16
ing regulations); and 17
(D) in a manner consistent with congres-18
sional intent that consultation for restoration 19
projects within the restoration area is com-20
pleted in a timely and efficient manner. 21
(2) CONFLICT OF LAWS.— 22
(A) IN GENERAL.—The establishment of 23
the restoration area shall not change the man-24
agement status of any land or water that is 25
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designated wilderness or as a wild and scenic 1
river, including lands and waters designated by 2
this title. 3
(B) RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT.—If there 4
is a conflict between the laws applicable to the 5
areas described in subparagraph (A) and this 6
section, the more restrictive provision shall con-7
trol. 8
(3) USES.— 9
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 10
only allow uses of the restoration area that the 11
Secretary determines would further the pur-12
poses described in subsection (c). 13
(B) PRIORITY.—The Secretary shall 14
prioritize restoration activities within the res-15
toration area. 16
(C) LIMITATION.—Nothing in this section 17
shall limit the Secretary’s ability to plan, ap-18
prove, or prioritize activities outside of the res-19
toration area. 20
(4) WILDLAND FIRE.— 21
(A) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this section 22
prohibits the Secretary, in cooperation with 23
other Federal, State, and local agencies, as ap-24
propriate, from conducting wildland fire oper-25
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ations in the restoration area, consistent with 1
the purposes of this section. 2
(B) PRIORITY.—The Secretary may use 3
prescribed burning and managed wildland fire 4
to the fullest extent practicable to achieve the 5
purposes of this section. 6
(5) ROAD DECOMMISSIONING.— 7
(A) IN GENERAL.—To the extent prac-8
ticable, the Secretary shall decommission 9
unneeded National Forest System roads identi-10
fied for decommissioning and unauthorized 11
roads identified for decommissioning within the 12
restoration area— 13
(i) subject to appropriations; 14
(ii) consistent with the analysis re-15
quired by subparts A and B of part 212 of 16
title 36, Code of Federal Regulations; and 17
(iii) in accordance with existing law. 18
(B) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—In mak-19
ing determinations regarding road decommis-20
sioning under subparagraph (A), the Secretary 21
shall consult with— 22
(i) appropriate State, Tribal, and local 23
governmental entities; and 24
(ii) members of the public. 25
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(C) DEFINITION.—As used in subpara-1
graph (A), the term ‘‘decommission’’ means— 2
(i) to reestablish vegetation on a road; 3
and 4
(ii) to restore any natural drainage, 5
watershed function, or other ecological 6
processes that are disrupted or adversely 7
impacted by the road by removing or 8
hydrologically disconnecting the road 9
prism. 10
(6) VEGETATION MANAGEMENT.— 11
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-12
graphs (B), (C), and (D), the Secretary may 13
conduct vegetation management projects in the 14
restoration area only where necessary to— 15
(i) maintain or restore the character-16
istics of ecosystem composition and struc-17
ture; 18
(ii) reduce wildfire risk to commu-19
nities by promoting forests that are fire re-20
silient; 21
(iii) improve the habitat of threatened, 22
endangered, or sensitive species; 23
(iv) protect or improve water quality; 24
or 25
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(v) enhance the restoration of lands 1
within the restoration area. 2
(B) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.— 3
(i) SHADED FUEL BREAKS.—In car-4
rying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary 5
shall prioritize, as practicable, the estab-6
lishment of a network of shaded fuel 7
breaks within— 8
(I) the portions of the wildland- 9
urban interface that are within 150 10
feet from private property contiguous 11
to Federal land; 12
(II) one hundred and fifty feet 13
from any road that is open to motor-14
ized vehicles as of the date of enact-15
ment of this Act— 16
(aa) except that, where to-17
pography or other conditions re-18
quire, the Secretary may estab-19
lish shaded fuel breaks up to 275 20
feet from a road so long as the 21
combined total width of the 22
shaded fuel breaks for both sides 23
of the road does not exceed 300 24
feet; and 25
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(bb) provided that the Sec-1
retary shall include vegetation 2
treatments within a minimum of 3
25 feet of the road where prac-4
ticable, feasible, and appropriate 5
as part of any shaded fuel break; 6
or 7
(III) one hundred and fifty feet 8
of any plantation. 9
(ii) PLANTATIONS; RIPARIAN RE-10
SERVES.—The Secretary may undertake 11
vegetation management projects— 12
(I) in areas within the restora-13
tion area in which fish and wildlife 14
habitat is significantly compromised 15
as a result of past management prac-16
tices (including plantations); and 17
(II) within designated riparian 18
reserves only where necessary to 19
maintain the integrity of fuel breaks 20
and to enhance fire resilience. 21
(C) COMPLIANCE.—The Secretary shall 22
carry out vegetation management projects with-23
in the restoration area— 24
(i) in accordance with— 25
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(I) this section; and 1
(II) existing law (including regu-2
lations); 3
(ii) after providing an opportunity for 4
public comment; and 5
(iii) subject to appropriations. 6
(D) BEST AVAILABLE SCIENCE.—The Sec-7
retary shall use the best available science in 8
planning and implementing vegetation manage-9
ment projects within the restoration area. 10
(7) GRAZING.— 11
(A) EXISTING GRAZING.—The grazing of 12
livestock in the restoration area, where estab-13
lished before the date of enactment of this Act, 14
shall be permitted to continue— 15
(i) subject to— 16
(I) such reasonable regulations, 17
policies, and practices as the Sec-18
retary considers necessary; and 19
(II) applicable law (including reg-20
ulations); and 21
(ii) in a manner consistent with the 22
purposes described in subsection (c). 23
(B) TARGETED NEW GRAZING.—The Sec-24
retary may issue annual targeted grazing per-25
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mits for the grazing of livestock in the restora-1
tion area, where not established before the date 2
of the enactment of this Act, to control noxious 3
weeds, aid in the control of wildfire within the 4
wildland-urban interface, or to provide other ec-5
ological benefits subject to— 6
(i) such reasonable regulations, poli-7
cies, and practices as the Secretary con-8
siders necessary; and 9
(ii) a manner consistent with the pur-10
poses described in subsection (c). 11
(C) BEST AVAILABLE SCIENCE.—The Sec-12
retary shall use the best available science when 13
determining whether to issue targeted grazing 14
permits within the restoration area. 15
(e) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 16
the restoration area is withdrawn from— 17
(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-18
posal under the public land laws; 19
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 20
laws; and 21
(3) disposition under all laws relating to min-22
eral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 23
(f) USE OF STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTS.—To the 24
maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall— 25
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(1) use stewardship contracts to implement this 1
section; and 2
(2) use revenue derived from such stewardship 3
contracts for restoration and other activities within 4
the restoration area which shall include staff and ad-5
ministrative costs to support timely consultation ac-6
tivities for restoration projects. 7
(g) COLLABORATION.—In developing and imple-8
menting restoration projects in the restoration area, the 9
Secretary shall consult with collaborative groups with an 10
interest in the restoration area. 11
(h) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—A collaboratively de-12
veloped restoration project within the restoration area may 13
be carried out in accordance with the provisions for haz-14
ardous fuel reduction projects set forth in sections 214, 15
215, and 216 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 16
2003 (16 U.S.C. 6514–6516), as applicable. 17
(i) MULTIPARTY MONITORING.—The Secretary of 18
Agriculture shall— 19
(1) in collaboration with the Secretary of the 20
Interior and interested persons, use a multiparty 21
monitoring, evaluation, and accountability process to 22
assess the positive or negative ecological, social, and 23
economic effects of restoration projects within the 24
restoration area; and 25
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(2) incorporate the monitoring results into the 1
management of the restoration area. 2
(j) FUNDING.—The Secretary shall use all existing 3
authorities to secure as much funding as necessary to ful-4
fill the purposes of the restoration area. 5
(k) FOREST RESIDUES UTILIZATION.— 6
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with applica-7
ble law, including regulations, and this section, the 8
Secretary may utilize forest residues from restora-9
tion projects, including shaded fuel breaks, in the 10
restoration area for research and development of 11
biobased products that result in net carbon seques-12
tration. 13
(2) PARTNERSHIPS.—In carrying out para-14
graph (1), the Secretary may enter into partnerships 15
with universities, nongovernmental organizations, in-16
dustry, Tribes, and Federal, State, and local govern-17
mental agencies. 18
SEC. 112. REDWOOD NATIONAL AND STATE PARKS RES-19
TORATION. 20
(a) PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary of 21
the Interior is authorized to undertake initiatives to re-22
store degraded redwood forest ecosystems in Redwood Na-23
tional and State Parks in partnership with the State of 24
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California, local agencies, and nongovernmental organiza-1
tions. 2
(b) COMPLIANCE.—In carrying out any initiative au-3
thorized by subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior 4
shall comply with all applicable law. 5
SEC. 113. CALIFORNIA PUBLIC LANDS REMEDIATION PART-6
NERSHIP. 7
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 8
(1) PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘partnership’’ 9
means the California Public Lands Remediation 10
Partnership, established by subsection (b). 11
(2) PRIORITY LANDS.—The term ‘‘priority 12
lands’’ means Federal land within the State that is 13
determined by the partnership to be a high priority 14
for remediation. 15
(3) REMEDIATION.—The term ‘‘remediation’’ 16
means to facilitate the recovery of lands and waters 17
that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed by 18
illegal marijuana cultivation or another illegal activ-19
ity. Remediation includes but is not limited to re-20
moval of trash, debris, and other material, and es-21
tablishing the composition, structure, pattern, and 22
ecological processes necessary to facilitate terrestrial 23
and aquatic ecosystem sustainability, resilience, and 24
health under current and future conditions. 25
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(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established a 1
California Public Lands Remediation Partnership. 2
(c) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the partnership are 3
to— 4
(1) coordinate the activities of Federal, State, 5
Tribal, and local authorities, and the private sector, 6
in the remediation of priority lands in the State af-7
fected by illegal marijuana cultivation or other illegal 8
activities; and 9
(2) use the resources and expertise of each 10
agency, authority, or entity in implementing remedi-11
ation activities on priority lands in the State. 12
(d) MEMBERSHIP.—The members of the partnership 13
shall include the following: 14
(1) The Secretary of Agriculture, or a designee 15
of the Secretary of Agriculture to represent the For-16
est Service. 17
(2) The Secretary of the Interior, or a designee 18
of the Secretary of the Interior, to represent the 19
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of 20
Land Management, and National Park Service. 21
(3) The Director of the Office of National Drug 22
Control Policy, or a designee of the Director. 23
(4) The Secretary of the State Natural Re-24
sources Agency, or a designee of the Secretary, to 25
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represent the California Department of Fish and 1
Wildlife. 2
(5) A designee of the California State Water 3
Resources Control Board. 4
(6) A designee of the California State Sheriffs’ 5
Association. 6
(7) One member to represent federally recog-7
nized Indian Tribes, to be appointed by the Sec-8
retary of Agriculture. 9
(8) One member to represent nongovernmental 10
organizations with an interest in Federal land reme-11
diation, to be appointed by the Secretary of Agri-12
culture. 13
(9) One member to represent local govern-14
mental interests, to be appointed by the Secretary of 15
Agriculture. 16
(10) A law enforcement official from each of 17
the following: 18
(A) The Department of the Interior. 19
(B) The Department of Agriculture. 20
(11) A scientist to provide expertise and advise 21
on methods needed for remediation efforts, to be ap-22
pointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. 23
(12) A designee of the National Guard Counter 24
Drug Program. 25
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(e) DUTIES.—To further the purposes of this section, 1
the partnership shall— 2
(1) identify priority lands for remediation in the 3
State; 4
(2) secure resources from Federal and non-Fed-5
eral sources to apply to remediation of priority lands 6
in the State; 7
(3) support efforts by Federal, State, Tribal, 8
and local agencies, and nongovernmental organiza-9
tions in carrying out remediation of priority lands in 10
the State; 11
(4) support research and education on the im-12
pacts of, and solutions to, illegal marijuana cultiva-13
tion and other illegal activities on priority lands in 14
the State; 15
(5) involve other Federal, State, Tribal, and 16
local agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and 17
the public in remediation efforts, to the extent prac-18
ticable; and 19
(6) take any other administrative or advisory 20
actions as necessary to address remediation of pri-21
ority lands in the State. 22
(f) AUTHORITIES.—To implement this section, the 23
partnership may, subject to the prior approval of the Sec-24
retary of Agriculture— 25
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(1) make grants to the State, political subdivi-1
sions of the State, nonprofit organizations, and 2
other persons; 3
(2) enter into cooperative agreements with, or 4
provide grants or technical assistance to, the State, 5
political subdivisions of the State, nonprofit organi-6
zations, Federal agencies, and other interested par-7
ties; 8
(3) hire and compensate staff; 9
(4) obtain funds or services from any source, 10
including Federal and non-Federal funds, and funds 11
and services provided under any other Federal law 12
or program; 13
(5) contract for goods or services; and 14
(6) support activities of partners and any other 15
activities that further the purposes of this section. 16
(g) PROCEDURES.—The partnership shall establish 17
such rules and procedures as it deems necessary or desir-18
able. 19
(h) LOCAL HIRING.—The partnership shall, to the 20
maximum extent practicable and in accordance with exist-21
ing law, give preference to local entities and persons when 22
carrying out this section. 23
(i) SERVICE WITHOUT COMPENSATION.—Members of 24
the partnership shall serve without pay. 25
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(j) DUTIES AND AUTHORITIES OF THE SECRETARY 1
OF AGRICULTURE.— 2
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture 3
shall convene the partnership on a regular basis to 4
carry out this section. 5
(2) TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.— 6
The Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the 7
Interior may provide technical and financial assist-8
ance, on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis, as 9
determined by the appropriate Secretary, to the 10
partnership or any members of the partnership to 11
carry out this title. 12
(3) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Sec-13
retary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior 14
may enter into cooperative agreements with the 15
partnership, any members of the partnership, or 16
other public or private entities to provide technical, 17
financial, or other assistance to carry out this title. 18
SEC. 114. TRINITY LAKE VISITOR CENTER. 19
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture, act-20
ing through the Chief of the Forest Service, may establish, 21
in cooperation with any other public or private entities 22
that the Secretary may determine to be appropriate, a vis-23
itor center in Weaverville, California— 24
(1) to serve visitors; and 25
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(2) to assist in fulfilling the purposes of the 1
Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation 2
Area. 3
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall ensure 4
that the visitor center authorized under subsection (a) is 5
designed to interpret the scenic, biological, natural, histor-6
ical, scientific, paleontological, recreational, ecological, wil-7
derness, and cultural resources of the Whiskeytown-Shas-8
ta-Trinity National Recreation Area and other nearby 9
Federal lands. 10
(c) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary of 11
Agriculture may, in a manner consistent with this title, 12
enter into cooperative agreements with the State and any 13
other appropriate institutions and organizations to carry 14
out the purposes of this section. 15
SEC. 115. DEL NORTE COUNTY VISITOR CENTER. 16
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture and 17
Secretary of the Interior, acting jointly or separately, may 18
establish, in cooperation with any other public or private 19
entities that the Secretaries determine to be appropriate, 20
a visitor center in Del Norte County, California— 21
(1) to serve visitors; and 22
(2) to assist in fulfilling the purposes of Red-23
wood National and State Parks, the Smith River 24
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National Recreation Area, and other nearby Federal 1
lands. 2
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretaries shall ensure 3
that the visitor center authorized under subsection (a) is 4
designed to interpret the scenic, biological, natural, histor-5
ical, scientific, paleontological, recreational, ecological, wil-6
derness, and cultural resources of Redwood National and 7
State Parks, the Smith River National Recreation Area, 8
and other nearby Federal lands. 9
SEC. 116. MANAGEMENT PLANS. 10
(a) IN GENERAL.—In revising the land and resource 11
management plan for the Shasta-Trinity, Six Rivers, 12
Klamath, and Mendocino National Forests, the Secretary 13
shall— 14
(1) consider the purposes of the South Fork 15
Trinity-Mad River Restoration Area established by 16
section 111; and 17
(2) include or update the fire management plan 18
for the wilderness areas and wilderness additions es-19
tablished by this title. 20
(b) REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out the revisions re-21
quired by subsection (a), the Secretary shall— 22
(1) develop spatial fire management plans in 23
accordance with— 24
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(A) the Guidance for Implementation of 1
Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy 2
dated February 13, 2009, including any amend-3
ments to that guidance; and 4
(B) other appropriate policies; 5
(2) ensure that a fire management plan— 6
(A) considers how prescribed or managed 7
fire can be used to achieve ecological manage-8
ment objectives of wilderness and other natural 9
or primitive areas; and 10
(B) in the case of a wilderness area ex-11
panded by section 131, provides consistent di-12
rection regarding fire management to the entire 13
wilderness area, including the addition; 14
(3) consult with— 15
(A) appropriate State, Tribal, and local 16
governmental entities; and 17
(B) members of the public; and 18
(4) comply with applicable laws (including regu-19
lations). 20
SEC. 117. STUDY; PARTNERSHIPS RELATED TO OVERNIGHT 21
ACCOMMODATIONS. 22
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of the Interior, in con-23
sultation with interested Federal, State, Tribal, and local 24
entities, and private and nonprofit organizations, shall 25
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conduct a study to evaluate the feasibility and suitability 1
of establishing overnight accommodations near Redwood 2
National and State Parks on— 3
(1) Federal land at the northern boundary or 4
on land within 20 miles of the northern boundary; 5
and 6
(2) Federal land at the southern boundary or 7
on land within 20 miles of the southern boundary. 8
(b) PARTNERSHIPS.— 9
(1) AGREEMENTS AUTHORIZED.—If the study 10
conducted under subsection (a) determines that es-11
tablishing the described accommodations is suitable 12
and feasible, the Secretary may enter into agree-13
ments with qualified private and nonprofit organiza-14
tions for the development, operation, and mainte-15
nance of overnight accommodations. 16
(2) CONTENTS.—Any agreements entered into 17
under paragraph (1) shall clearly define the role and 18
responsibility of the Secretary and the private or 19
nonprofit organization. 20
(3) COMPLIANCE.—The Secretary shall enter 21
agreements under paragraph (1) in accordance with 22
existing law. 23
(4) EFFECT.—Nothing in this subsection— 24
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(A) reduces or diminishes the authority of 1
the Secretary to manage land and resources 2
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary; or 3
(B) amends or modifies the application of 4
any existing law (including regulations) applica-5
ble to land under the jurisdiction of the Sec-6
retary. 7
Subtitle B—Recreation 8
SEC. 121. HORSE MOUNTAIN SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA. 9
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Subject to valid existing 10
rights, there is established the Horse Mountain Special 11
Management Area (referred to in this section as the ‘‘spe-12
cial management area’’) comprising approximately 7,399 13
acres of Federal land administered by the Forest Service 14
in Humboldt County, California, as generally depicted on 15
the map entitled ‘‘Horse Mountain Special Management 16
Area—Proposed’’ and dated April 13, 2017. 17
(b) PURPOSES.—The purpose of the special manage-18
ment area is to enhance the recreational and scenic values 19
of the special management area while conserving the 20
plants, wildlife, and other natural resource values of the 21
area. 22
(c) MANAGEMENT PLAN.— 23
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 24
the date of enactment of this Act and in accordance 25
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with paragraph (2), the Secretary shall develop a 1
comprehensive plan for the long-term management 2
of the special management area. 3
(2) CONSULTATION.—In developing the man-4
agement plan required under paragraph (1), the 5
Secretary shall consult with— 6
(A) appropriate State, Tribal, and local 7
governmental entities; and 8
(B) members of the public. 9
(3) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—The manage-10
ment plan required under paragraph (1) shall ensure 11
that recreational use within the special management 12
area does not cause significant adverse impacts on 13
the plants and wildlife of the special management 14
area. 15
(d) MANAGEMENT.— 16
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage 17
the special management area— 18
(A) in furtherance of the purposes de-19
scribed in subsection (b); and 20
(B) in accordance with— 21
(i) the laws (including regulations) 22
generally applicable to the National Forest 23
System; 24
(ii) this section; and 25
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(iii) any other applicable law (includ-1
ing regulations). 2
(2) RECREATION.—The Secretary shall con-3
tinue to authorize, maintain, and enhance the rec-4
reational use of the special management area, in-5
cluding hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, hang glid-6
ing, sightseeing, nature study, horseback riding, 7
rafting, mountain biking, and motorized recreation 8
on authorized routes, and other recreational activi-9
ties, so long as such recreational use is consistent 10
with the purposes of the special management area, 11
this section, other applicable law (including regula-12
tions), and applicable management plans. 13
(3) MOTORIZED VEHICLES.— 14
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 15
subparagraph (B), the use of motorized vehicles 16
in the special management area shall be per-17
mitted only on roads and trails designated for 18
the use of motorized vehicles. 19
(B) USE OF SNOWMOBILES.—The winter 20
use of snowmobiles shall be allowed in the spe-21
cial management area— 22
(i) during periods of adequate snow 23
coverage during the winter season; and 24
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(ii) subject to any terms and condi-1
tions determined to be necessary by the 2
Secretary. 3
(4) NEW TRAILS.— 4
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may 5
construct new trails for motorized or non-6
motorized recreation within the special manage-7
ment area in accordance with— 8
(i) the laws (including regulations) 9
generally applicable to the National Forest 10
System; 11
(ii) this section; and 12
(iii) any other applicable law (includ-13
ing regulations). 14
(B) PRIORITY.—In establishing new trails 15
within the special management area, the Sec-16
retary shall— 17
(i) prioritize the establishment of 18
loops that provide high-quality, diverse rec-19
reational experiences; and 20
(ii) consult with members of the pub-21
lic. 22
(e) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 23
the special management area is withdrawn from— 24
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(1) all forms of appropriation or disposal under 1
the public land laws; 2
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 3
laws; and 4
(3) disposition under laws relating to mineral 5
and geothermal leasing. 6
SEC. 122. BIGFOOT NATIONAL RECREATION TRAIL. 7
(a) FEASIBILITY STUDY.— 8
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 9
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 10
of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Secretary of 11
the Interior, shall submit to the Committee on Nat-12
ural Resources of the House of Representatives and 13
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 14
Senate a study that describes the feasibility of estab-15
lishing a nonmotorized Bigfoot National Recreation 16
Trail that follows the route described in paragraph 17
(2). 18
(2) ROUTE.—The trail described in paragraph 19
(1) shall extend from the Ides Cove Trailhead in the 20
Mendocino National Forest to Crescent City, Cali-21
fornia, by roughly following the route as generally 22
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Bigfoot National 23
Recreation Trail—Proposed’’ and dated July 25, 24
2018. 25
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(3) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—In com-1
pleting the study required by subsection (a), the Sec-2
retary of Agriculture shall consult with— 3
(A) appropriate Federal, State, Tribal, re-4
gional, and local agencies; 5
(B) private landowners; 6
(C) nongovernmental organizations; and 7
(D) members of the public. 8
(b) DESIGNATION.— 9
(1) IN GENERAL.—Upon a determination that 10
the Bigfoot National Recreation Trail is feasible and 11
meets the requirements for a National Recreation 12
Trail in section 1243 of title 16, United States 13
Code, the Secretary of Agriculture shall designate 14
the Bigfoot National Recreation Trail in accordance 15
with— 16
(A) the National Trails System Act (Public 17
Law 90–543); 18
(B) this title; and 19
(C) other applicable law (including regula-20
tions). 21
(2) ADMINISTRATION.—Upon designation by 22
the Secretary of Agriculture, the Bigfoot National 23
Recreation Trail (referred to in this section as the 24
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‘‘trail’’) shall be administered by the Secretary of 1
Agriculture, in consultation with— 2
(A) other Federal, State, Tribal, regional, 3
and local agencies; 4
(B) private landowners; and 5
(C) other interested organizations. 6
(3) PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS.— 7
(A) IN GENERAL.—No portions of the trail 8
may be located on non-Federal land without the 9
written consent of the landowner. 10
(B) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Agri-11
culture shall not acquire for the trail any land 12
or interest in land outside the exterior boundary 13
of any federally managed area without the con-14
sent of the owner of the land or interest in the 15
land. 16
(C) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section— 17
(i) requires any private property 18
owner to allow public access (including 19
Federal, State, or local government access) 20
to private property; or 21
(ii) modifies any provision of Federal, 22
State, or local law with respect to public 23
access to or use of private land. 24
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(c) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—In carrying out 1
this section, the Secretary of Agriculture may enter into 2
cooperative agreements with State, Tribal, and local gov-3
ernment entities and private entities to complete needed 4
trail construction, reconstruction, realignment, mainte-5
nance, or education projects related to the Bigfoot Na-6
tional Recreation Trail. 7
(d) MAP.— 8
(1) MAP REQUIRED.—Upon designation of the 9
Bigfoot National Recreation Trail, the Secretary of 10
Agriculture shall prepare a map of the trail. 11
(2) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map referred 12
to in paragraph (1) shall be on file and available for 13
public inspection in the appropriate offices of the 14
Forest Service. 15
SEC. 123. ELK CAMP RIDGE RECREATION TRAIL. 16
(a) DESIGNATION.— 17
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with para-18
graph (2), the Secretary of Agriculture after an op-19
portunity for public comment, shall designate a trail 20
(which may include a system of trails)— 21
(A) for use by off-highway vehicles or 22
mountain bicycles, or both; and 23
(B) to be known as the Elk Camp Ridge 24
Recreation Trail. 25
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(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In designating the Elk 1
Camp Ridge Recreation Trail (referred to in this 2
section as the ‘‘trail’’), the Secretary shall only in-3
clude trails that are— 4
(A) as of the date of enactment of this 5
Act, authorized for use by off-highway vehicles 6
or mountain bikes, or both; and 7
(B) located on land that is managed by the 8
Forest Service in Del Norte County. 9
(3) MAP.—A map that depicts the trail shall be 10
on file and available for public inspection in the ap-11
propriate offices of the Forest Service. 12
(b) MANAGEMENT.— 13
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage 14
the trail— 15
(A) in accordance with applicable laws (in-16
cluding regulations); 17
(B) to ensure the safety of citizens who 18
use the trail; and 19
(C) in a manner by which to minimize any 20
damage to sensitive habitat or cultural re-21
sources. 22
(2) MONITORING; EVALUATION.—To minimize 23
the impacts of the use of the trail on environmental 24
and cultural resources, the Secretary shall annually 25
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assess the effects of the use of off-highway vehicles 1
and mountain bicycles on— 2
(A) the trail; 3
(B) land located in proximity to the trail; 4
and 5
(C) plants, wildlife, and wildlife habitat. 6
(3) CLOSURE.—The Secretary, in consultation 7
with the State and Del Norte County, and subject 8
to paragraph (4), may temporarily close or perma-9
nently reroute a portion of the trail if the Secretary 10
determines that— 11
(A) the trail is having an adverse impact 12
on— 13
(i) wildlife habitats; 14
(ii) natural resources; 15
(iii) cultural resources; or 16
(iv) traditional uses; 17
(B) the trail threatens public safety; or 18
(C) closure of the trail is necessary— 19
(i) to repair damage to the trail; or 20
(ii) to repair resource damage. 21
(4) REROUTING.—Any portion of the trail that 22
is temporarily closed by the Secretary under para-23
graph (3) may be permanently rerouted along any 24
road or trail— 25
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(A) that is— 1
(i) in existence as of the date of the 2
closure of the portion of the trail; 3
(ii) located on public land; and 4
(iii) open to motorized or mechanized 5
use; and 6
(B) if the Secretary determines that re-7
routing the portion of the trail would not sig-8
nificantly increase or decrease the length of the 9
trail. 10
(5) NOTICE OF AVAILABLE ROUTES.—The Sec-11
retary shall ensure that visitors to the trail have ac-12
cess to adequate notice relating to the availability of 13
trail routes through— 14
(A) the placement of appropriate signage 15
along the trail; and 16
(B) the distribution of maps, safety edu-17
cation materials, and other information that the 18
Secretary concerned determines to be appro-19
priate. 20
(c) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section affects the 21
ownership, management, or other rights relating to any 22
non-Federal land (including any interest in any non-Fed-23
eral land). 24
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SEC. 124. TRINITY LAKE TRAIL. 1
(a) TRAIL CONSTRUCTION.— 2
(1) FEASIBILITY STUDY.—Not later than 18 3
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 4
Secretary shall study the feasibility and public inter-5
est of constructing a recreational trail for non-6
motorized uses around Trinity Lake. 7
(2) CONSTRUCTION.— 8
(A) CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZED.—Sub-9
ject to appropriations, and in accordance with 10
paragraph (3), if the Secretary determines 11
under paragraph (1) that the construction of 12
the trail described in such paragraph is feasible 13
and in the public interest, the Secretary may 14
provide for the construction of the trail. 15
(B) USE OF VOLUNTEER SERVICES AND 16
CONTRIBUTIONS.—The trail may be constructed 17
under this section through the acceptance of 18
volunteer services and contributions from non- 19
Federal sources to reduce or eliminate the need 20
for Federal expenditures to construct the trail. 21
(3) COMPLIANCE.—In carrying out this section, 22
the Secretary shall comply with— 23
(A) the laws (including regulations) gen-24
erally applicable to the National Forest System; 25
and 26
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(B) this title. 1
(b) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section affects the 2
ownership, management, or other rights relating to any 3
non-Federal land (including any interest in any non-Fed-4
eral land). 5
SEC. 125. TRAILS STUDY. 6
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after the 7
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agri-8
culture, in accordance with subsection (b) and in consulta-9
tion with interested parties, shall conduct a study to im-10
prove motorized and nonmotorized recreation trail oppor-11
tunities (including mountain bicycling) on land not des-12
ignated as wilderness within the portions of the Six Rivers, 13
Shasta-Trinity, and Mendocino National Forests located 14
in Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino Coun-15
ties. 16
(b) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out the study re-17
quired by subsection (a), the Secretary of Agriculture shall 18
consult with the Secretary of the Interior regarding oppor-19
tunities to improve, through increased coordination, recre-20
ation trail opportunities on land under the jurisdiction of 21
the Secretary of the Interior that shares a boundary with 22
the national forest land described in subsection (a). 23
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SEC. 126. CONSTRUCTION OF MOUNTAIN BICYCLING 1
ROUTES. 2
(a) TRAIL CONSTRUCTION.— 3
(1) FEASIBILITY STUDY.—Not later than 18 4
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 5
Secretary of Agriculture shall study the feasibility 6
and public interest of constructing recreational trails 7
for mountain bicycling and other nonmotorized uses 8
on the routes as generally depicted in the report en-9
titled ‘‘Trail Study for Smith River National Recre-10
ation Area Six Rivers National Forest’’ and dated 11
2016. 12
(2) CONSTRUCTION.— 13
(A) CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZED.—Sub-14
ject to appropriations, and in accordance with 15
paragraph (3), if the Secretary determines 16
under paragraph (1) that the construction of 17
one or more routes described in such paragraph 18
is feasible and in the public interest, the Sec-19
retary may provide for the construction of the 20
routes. 21
(B) MODIFICATIONS.—The Secretary may 22
modify the routes as necessary in the opinion of 23
the Secretary. 24
(C) USE OF VOLUNTEER SERVICES AND 25
CONTRIBUTIONS.—Routes may be constructed 26
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under this section through the acceptance of 1
volunteer services and contributions from non- 2
Federal sources to reduce or eliminate the need 3
for Federal expenditures to construct the route. 4
(3) COMPLIANCE.—In carrying out this section, 5
the Secretary shall comply with— 6
(A) the laws (including regulations) gen-7
erally applicable to the National Forest System; 8
and 9
(B) this title. 10
(b) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section affects the 11
ownership, management, or other rights relating to any 12
non-Federal land (including any interest in any non-Fed-13
eral land). 14
SEC. 127. PARTNERSHIPS. 15
(a) AGREEMENTS AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary is 16
authorized to enter into agreements with qualified private 17
and nonprofit organizations to undertake the following ac-18
tivities on Federal lands in Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, 19
and Del Norte Counties— 20
(1) trail and campground maintenance; 21
(2) public education, visitor contacts, and out-22
reach; and 23
(3) visitor center staffing. 24
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(b) CONTENTS.—Any agreements entered into under 1
subsection (a) shall clearly define the role and responsi-2
bility of the Secretary and the private or nonprofit organi-3
zation. 4
(c) COMPLIANCE.—The Secretary shall enter into 5
agreements under subsection (a) in accordance with exist-6
ing law. 7
(d) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section— 8
(1) reduces or diminishes the authority of the 9
Secretary to manage land and resources under the 10
jurisdiction of the Secretary; or 11
(2) amends or modifies the application of any 12
existing law (including regulations) applicable to 13
land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. 14
Subtitle C—Conservation 15
SEC. 131. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS. 16
(a) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with the Wilderness 17
Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following areas in the 18
State are designated as wilderness areas and as compo-19
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation System: 20
(1) BLACK BUTTE RIVER WILDERNESS.—Cer-21
tain Federal land managed by the Forest Service in 22
the State, comprising approximately 11,117 acres, 23
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Black 24
Butte River Wilderness—Proposed’’ and dated April 25
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13, 2017, which shall be known as the Black Butte 1
River Wilderness. 2
(2) CHANCHELULLA WILDERNESS ADDI-3
TIONS.—Certain Federal land managed by the For-4
est Service in the State, comprising approximately 5
6,212 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-6
tled ‘‘Chanchelulla Wilderness Additions—Proposed’’ 7
and dated July 16, 2018, which is incorporated in, 8
and considered to be a part of, the Chanchelulla Wil-9
derness, as designated by section 101(a)(4) of the 10
California Wilderness Act of 1984 (16 U.S.C. 1132 11
note; 98 Stat. 1619). 12
(3) CHINQUAPIN WILDERNESS.—Certain Fed-13
eral land managed by the Forest Service in the 14
State, comprising approximately 27,258 acres, as 15
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Chinquapin 16
Wilderness—Proposed’’ and dated January 15, 17
2020, which shall be known as the Chinquapin Wil-18
derness. 19
(4) ELKHORN RIDGE WILDERNESS ADDITION.— 20
Certain Federal land managed by the Bureau of 21
Land Management in the State, comprising approxi-22
mately 37 acres, as generally depicted on the map 23
entitled ‘‘Proposed Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness Addi-24
tions’’ and dated October 24, 2019, which is incor-25
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porated in, and considered to be a part of, the Elk-1
horn Ridge Wilderness, as designated by section 2
6(d) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 3
120 Stat. 2070). 4
(5) ENGLISH RIDGE WILDERNESS.—Certain 5
Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Man-6
agement in the State, comprising approximately 7
6,204 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-8
tled ‘‘English Ridge Wilderness—Proposed’’ and 9
dated March 29, 2019, which shall be known as the 10
English Ridge Wilderness. 11
(6) HEADWATERS FOREST WILDERNESS.—Cer-12
tain Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land 13
Management in the State, comprising approximately 14
4,360 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-15
tled ‘‘Headwaters Forest Wilderness—Proposed’’ 16
and dated October 15, 2019, which shall be known 17
as the Headwaters Forest Wilderness. 18
(7) MAD RIVER BUTTES WILDERNESS.—Certain 19
Federal land managed by the Forest Service in the 20
State, comprising approximately 6,002 acres, as gen-21
erally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Mad River 22
Buttes Wilderness—Proposed’’ and dated July 25, 23
2018, which shall be known as the Mad River 24
Buttes Wilderness. 25
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(8) MOUNT LASSIC WILDERNESS ADDITION.— 1
Certain Federal land managed by the Forest Service 2
in the State, comprising approximately 1,292 acres, 3
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Mount 4
Lassic Wilderness Additions—Proposed’’ and dated 5
February 23, 2017, which is incorporated in, and 6
considered to be a part of, the Mount Lassic Wilder-7
ness, as designated by section 3(6) of Public Law 8
109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 120 Stat. 2065). 9
(9) NORTH FORK EEL WILDERNESS ADDI-10
TION.—Certain Federal land managed by the Forest 11
Service and the Bureau of Land Management in the 12
State, comprising approximately 16,274 acres, as 13
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘North Fork 14
Wilderness Additions’’ and dated January 15, 2020, 15
which is incorporated in, and considered to be a part 16
of, the North Fork Eel Wilderness, as designated by 17
section 101(a)(19) of the California Wilderness Act 18
of 1984 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 98 Stat. 1621). 19
(10) PATTISON WILDERNESS.—Certain Federal 20
land managed by the Forest Service in the State, 21
comprising approximately 28,595 acres, as generally 22
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Pattison Wilderness— 23
Proposed’’ and dated July 16, 2018, which shall be 24
known as the Pattison Wilderness. 25
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(11) SANHEDRIN WILDERNESS ADDITION.— 1
Certain Federal land managed by the Forest Service 2
in the State, comprising approximately 112 acres, as 3
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Sanhedrin 4
Wilderness Addition—Proposed’’ and dated March 5
29, 2019, which is incorporated in, and considered 6
to be a part of, the Sanhedrin Wilderness, as des-7
ignated by section 3(2) of Public Law 109–362 (16 8
U.S.C. 1132 note; 120 Stat. 2065). 9
(12) SISKIYOU WILDERNESS ADDITION.—Cer-10
tain Federal land managed by the Forest Service in 11
the State, comprising approximately 27,747 acres, 12
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Siskiyou 13
Wilderness Additions and Potential Wildernesses— 14
Proposed’’ and dated July 24, 2018, which is incor-15
porated in, and considered to be a part of, the 16
Siskiyou Wilderness, as designated by section 17
101(a)(30) of the California Wilderness Act of 1984 18
(16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 98 Stat. 1623) (as amended 19
by section 3(5) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 20
1132 note; 120 Stat. 2065)). 21
(13) SOUTH FORK EEL RIVER WILDERNESS AD-22
DITION.—Certain Federal land managed by the Bu-23
reau of Land Management in the State, comprising 24
approximately 603 acres, as generally depicted on 25
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the map entitled ‘‘South Fork Eel River Wilderness 1
Additions—Proposed’’ and dated October 24, 2019, 2
which is incorporated in, and considered to be a part 3
of, the South Fork Eel River Wilderness, as des-4
ignated by section 3(10) of Public Law 109–362 (16 5
U.S.C. 1132 note; 120 Stat. 2066). 6
(14) SOUTH FORK TRINITY RIVER WILDER-7
NESS.—Certain Federal land managed by the Forest 8
Service in the State, comprising approximately 9
26,446 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-10
tled ‘‘South Fork Trinity River Wilderness and Po-11
tential Wildernesses—Proposed’’ and dated March 12
11, 2019, which shall be known as the South Fork 13
Trinity River Wilderness. 14
(15) TRINITY ALPS WILDERNESS ADDITION.— 15
Certain Federal land managed by the Forest Service 16
in the State, comprising approximately 60,826 acres, 17
as generally depicted on the maps entitled ‘‘Trinity 18
Alps Proposed Wilderness Additions EAST’’ and 19
‘‘Trinity Alps Proposed Wilderness Additions 20
WEST’’ and dated January 15, 2020, which is in-21
corporated in, and considered to be a part of, the 22
Trinity Alps Wilderness, as designated by section 23
101(a)(34) of the California Wilderness Act of 1984 24
(16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 98 Stat. 1623) (as amended 25
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by section 3(7) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1
1132 note; 120 Stat. 2065)). 2
(16) UNDERWOOD WILDERNESS.—Certain Fed-3
eral land managed by the Forest Service in the 4
State, comprising approximately 15,069 acres, as 5
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Underwood 6
Wilderness—Proposed’’ and dated January 15, 7
2020, which shall be known as the Underwood Wil-8
derness. 9
(17) YOLLA BOLLY-MIDDLE EEL WILDERNESS 10
ADDITIONS.—Certain Federal land managed by the 11
Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management 12
in the State, comprising approximately 10,729 acres, 13
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Yolla 14
Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness Additions and Potential 15
Wildernesses—Proposed’’ and dated June 7, 2018, 16
which is incorporated in, and considered to be a part 17
of, the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness, as des-18
ignated by section 3 of the Wilderness Act (16 19
U.S.C. 1132) (as amended by section 3(4) of Public 20
Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 120 Stat. 21
2065)). 22
(18) YUKI WILDERNESS ADDITION.—Certain 23
Federal land managed by the Forest Service and the 24
Bureau of Land Management in the State, com-25
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prising approximately 11,076 acres, as generally de-1
picted on the map entitled ‘‘Yuki Wilderness Addi-2
tions—Proposed’’ and dated January 15, 2020, 3
which is incorporated in, and considered to be a part 4
of, the Yuki Wilderness, as designated by section 5
3(3) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 6
120 Stat. 2065). 7
(b) REDESIGNATION OF NORTH FORK WILDERNESS 8
AS NORTH FORK EEL RIVER WILDERNESS.—Section 9
101(a)(19) of Public Law 98–425 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 10
98 Stat. 1621) is amended by striking ‘‘North Fork Wil-11
derness’’ and inserting ‘‘North Fork Eel River Wilder-12
ness’’. Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 13
paper, or other record of the United States to the North 14
Fork Wilderness shall be deemed to be a reference to the 15
North Fork Eel River Wilderness. 16
(c) ELKHORN RIDGE WILDERNESS ADJUSTMENTS.— 17
The boundary of the Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness estab-18
lished by section 6(d) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 19
1132 note) is adjusted by deleting approximately 30 acres 20
of Federal land as generally depicted on the map entitled 21
‘‘Proposed Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness Additions’’ and 22
dated October 24, 2019. 23
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SEC. 132. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS. 1
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 2
the wilderness areas and wilderness additions established 3
by section 131 shall be administered by the Secretary in 4
accordance with this subtitle and the Wilderness Act (16 5
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), except that— 6
(1) any reference in the Wilderness Act to the 7
effective date of that Act shall be considered to be 8
a reference to the date of enactment of this Act; and 9
(2) any reference in that Act to the Secretary 10
of Agriculture shall be considered to be a reference 11
to the Secretary. 12
(b) FIRE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED ACTIVI-13
TIES.— 14
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may take 15
such measures in a wilderness area or wilderness ad-16
dition designated by section 131 as are necessary for 17
the control of fire, insects, and diseases in accord-18
ance with section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 19
U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)) and House Report 98–40 of the 20
98th Congress. 21
(2) FUNDING PRIORITIES.—Nothing in this 22
subtitle limits funding for fire and fuels manage-23
ment in the wilderness areas or wilderness additions 24
designated by this title. 25
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(3) ADMINISTRATION.—Consistent with para-1
graph (1) and other applicable Federal law, to en-2
sure a timely and efficient response to fire emer-3
gencies in the wilderness additions designated by 4
this subtitle, the Secretary of Agriculture shall— 5
(A) not later than 1 year after the date of 6
enactment of this Act, establish agency ap-7
proval procedures (including appropriate delega-8
tions of authority to the Forest Supervisor, Dis-9
trict Manager, or other agency officials) for re-10
sponding to fire emergencies; and 11
(B) enter into agreements with appropriate 12
State or local firefighting agencies. 13
(c) GRAZING.—The grazing of livestock in the wilder-14
ness areas and wilderness additions designated by this 15
title, if established before the date of enactment of this 16
Act, shall be administered in accordance with— 17
(1) section 4(d)(4) of the Wilderness Act (16 18
U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)); and 19
(2)(A) for lands under the jurisdiction of the 20
Secretary of Agriculture, the guidelines set forth in 21
the report of the Committee on Interior and Insular 22
Affairs of the House of Representatives accom-23
panying H.R. 5487 of the 96th Congress (H. Rept. 24
96–617); or 25
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(B) for lands under the jurisdiction of the Sec-1
retary of the Interior, the guidelines set forth in Ap-2
pendix A of the report of the Committee on Interior 3
and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives 4
accompanying H.R. 2570 of the 101st Congress (H. 5
Rept. 101–405). 6
(d) FISH AND WILDLIFE.— 7
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with section 8
4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 9
1133(d)(7)), nothing in this title affects the jurisdic-10
tion or responsibilities of the State with respect to 11
fish and wildlife on public land in the State. 12
(2) MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—In furtherance 13
of the purposes and principles of the Wilderness Act 14
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the Secretary may conduct 15
any management activities that are necessary to 16
maintain or restore fish, wildlife, and plant popu-17
lations and habitats in the wilderness areas or wil-18
derness additions designated by section 131, if the 19
management activities are— 20
(A) consistent with relevant wilderness 21
management plans; and 22
(B) conducted in accordance with— 23
(i) the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 24
1131 et seq.); and 25
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(ii) appropriate policies, such as the 1
policies established in Appendix B of 2
House Report 101–405. 3
(e) BUFFER ZONES.— 4
(1) IN GENERAL.—Congress does not intend for 5
designation of wilderness or wilderness additions by 6
this title to lead to the creation of protective perim-7
eters or buffer zones around each wilderness area or 8
wilderness addition. 9
(2) ACTIVITIES OR USES UP TO BOUNDARIES.— 10
The fact that nonwilderness activities or uses can be 11
seen or heard from within a wilderness area shall 12
not, of itself, preclude the activities or uses up to the 13
boundary of the wilderness area. 14
(f) MILITARY ACTIVITIES.—Nothing in this subtitle 15
precludes— 16
(1) low-level overflights of military aircraft over 17
the wilderness areas or wilderness additions des-18
ignated by section 131; 19
(2) the designation of new units of special air-20
space over the wilderness areas or wilderness addi-21
tions designated by section 131; or 22
(3) the use or establishment of military flight 23
training routes over the wilderness areas or wilder-24
ness additions designated by section 131. 25
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(g) HORSES.—Nothing in this subtitle precludes 1
horseback riding in, or the entry of recreational or com-2
mercial saddle or pack stock into, an area designated as 3
a wilderness area or wilderness addition by section 131— 4
(1) in accordance with section 4(d)(5) of the 5
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(5)); and 6
(2) subject to any terms and conditions deter-7
mined to be necessary by the Secretary. 8
(h) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 9
the wilderness areas and wilderness additions designated 10
by section 131 are withdrawn from— 11
(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-12
posal under the public land laws; 13
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 14
laws; and 15
(3) operation of the mineral materials and geo-16
thermal leasing laws. 17
(i) USE BY MEMBERS OF INDIAN TRIBES.— 18
(1) ACCESS.—In recognition of the past use of 19
wilderness areas and wilderness additions designated 20
by this title by members of Indian Tribes for tradi-21
tional cultural and religious purposes, the Secretary 22
shall ensure that Indian Tribes have access to the 23
wilderness areas and wilderness additions designated 24
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by section 131 for traditional cultural and religious 1
purposes. 2
(2) TEMPORARY CLOSURES.— 3
(A) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out this 4
section, the Secretary, on request of an Indian 5
Tribe, may temporarily close to the general 6
public one or more specific portions of a wilder-7
ness area or wilderness addition to protect the 8
privacy of the members of the Indian Tribe in 9
the conduct of the traditional cultural and reli-10
gious activities in the wilderness area or wilder-11
ness addition. 12
(B) REQUIREMENT.—Any closure under 13
subparagraph (A) shall be made in such a man-14
ner as to affect the smallest practicable area for 15
the minimum period of time necessary for the 16
activity to be carried out. 17
(3) APPLICABLE LAW.—Access to the wilder-18
ness areas and wilderness additions under this sub-19
section shall be in accordance with— 20
(A) Public Law 95–341 (commonly known 21
as the American Indian Religious Freedom Act) 22
(42 U.S.C. 1996 et seq.); and 23
(B) the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et 24
seq.). 25
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(j) INCORPORATION OF ACQUIRED LAND AND INTER-1
ESTS.—Any land within the boundary of a wilderness area 2
or wilderness addition designated by section 131 that is 3
acquired by the United States shall— 4
(1) become part of the wilderness area in which 5
the land is located; 6
(2) be withdrawn in accordance with subsection 7
(h); and 8
(3) be managed in accordance with this section, 9
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), and 10
any other applicable law. 11
(k) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION.—In ac-12
cordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) 13
and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary 14
may prescribe, the Secretary may authorize the installa-15
tion and maintenance of hydrologic, meteorologic, or cli-16
matological collection devices in the wilderness areas and 17
wilderness additions designated by section 131 if the Sec-18
retary determines that the facilities and access to the fa-19
cilities are essential to flood warning, flood control, or 20
water reservoir operation activities. 21
(l) AUTHORIZED EVENTS.—The Secretary may con-22
tinue to authorize the competitive equestrian event per-23
mitted since 2012 in the Chinquapin Wilderness estab-24
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lished by section 131 in a manner compatible with the 1
preservation of the area as wilderness. 2
(m) RECREATIONAL CLIMBING.—Nothing in this title 3
prohibits recreational rock climbing activities in the wil-4
derness areas, such as the placement, use, and mainte-5
nance of fixed anchors, including any fixed anchor estab-6
lished before the date of the enactment of this Act— 7
(1) in accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 8
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.); and 9
(2) subject to any terms and conditions deter-10
mined to be necessary by the Secretary. 11
SEC. 133. DESIGNATION OF POTENTIAL WILDERNESS. 12
(a) DESIGNATION.—In furtherance of the purposes of 13
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following 14
areas in the State are designated as potential wilderness 15
areas: 16
(1) Certain Federal land managed by the For-17
est Service, comprising approximately 3,797 acres, 18
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Chin-19
quapin Proposed Potential Wilderness’’ and dated 20
January 15, 2020. 21
(2) Certain Federal land administered by the 22
National Park Service, compromising approximately 23
31,000 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-24
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tled ‘‘Redwood National Park - Potential Wilder-1
ness’’ and dated October 9, 2019. 2
(3) Certain Federal land managed by the For-3
est Service, comprising approximately 8,961 acres, 4
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Siskiyou 5
Wilderness Additions and Potential Wildernesses— 6
Proposed’’ and dated July 24, 2018. 7
(4) Certain Federal land managed by the For-8
est Service, comprising approximately 405 acres, as 9
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘South Fork 10
Trinity River Wilderness and Potential Wilder-11
nesses—Proposed’’ and dated March 11, 2019. 12
(5) Certain Federal land managed by the For-13
est Service, comprising approximately 1,256 acres, 14
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Trinity 15
Alps Proposed Potential Wilderness’’ and dated Jan-16
uary 15, 2020. 17
(6) Certain Federal land managed by the For-18
est Service, comprising approximately 4,282 acres, 19
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Yolla 20
Bolly Middle Eel Wilderness Additions and Potential 21
Wildernesses—Proposed’’ and dated June 7, 2018. 22
(7) Certain Federal land managed by the For-23
est Service, comprising approximately 2,909 acres, 24
as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Yuki Pro-25
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posed Potential Wilderness’’ and dated January 15, 1
2020. 2
(b) MANAGEMENT.—Except as provided in subsection 3
(c) and subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall 4
manage the potential wilderness areas designated by sub-5
section (a) (referred to in this section as ‘‘potential wilder-6
ness areas’’) as wilderness until the potential wilderness 7
areas are designated as wilderness under subsection (d). 8
(c) ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION.— 9
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of ecological 10
restoration (including the elimination of nonnative 11
species, removal of illegal, unused, or decommis-12
sioned roads, repair of skid tracks, and any other 13
activities necessary to restore the natural ecosystems 14
in a potential wilderness area and consistent with 15
paragraph (2)), the Secretary may use motorized 16
equipment and mechanized transport in a potential 17
wilderness area until the potential wilderness area is 18
designated as wilderness under subsection (d). 19
(2) LIMITATION.—To the maximum extent 20
practicable, the Secretary shall use the minimum 21
tool or administrative practice necessary to accom-22
plish ecological restoration with the least amount of 23
adverse impact on wilderness character and re-24
sources. 25
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(d) EVENTUAL WILDERNESS DESIGNATION.—The 1
potential wilderness areas shall be designated as wilder-2
ness and as a component of the National Wilderness Pres-3
ervation System on the earlier of— 4
(1) the date on which the Secretary publishes in 5
the Federal Register notice that the conditions in a 6
potential wilderness area that are incompatible with 7
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) have 8
been removed; or 9
(2) the date that is 10 years after the date of 10
enactment of this Act for potential wilderness areas 11
located on lands managed by the Forest Service. 12
(e) ADMINISTRATION AS WILDERNESS.— 13
(1) IN GENERAL.—On its designation as wilder-14
ness under subsection (d), a potential wilderness 15
area shall be administered in accordance with sec-16
tion 132 and the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et 17
seq.). 18
(2) DESIGNATION.—On its designation as wil-19
derness under subsection (d)— 20
(A) the land described in subsection (a)(1) 21
shall be incorporated in, and considered to be a 22
part of, the Chinquapin Wilderness established 23
by section 131(a)(3); 24
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(B) the land described in subsection (a)(3) 1
shall be incorporated in, and considered to be a 2
part of, the Siskiyou Wilderness as designated 3
by section 231(a)(30) of the California Wilder-4
ness Act of 1984 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 98 5
Stat. 1623) (as amended by section 3(5) of 6
Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 7
120 Stat. 2065) and expanded by section 8
131(a)(12)); 9
(C) the land described in subsection (a)(4) 10
shall be incorporated in, and considered to be a 11
part of, the South Fork Trinity River Wilder-12
ness established by section 131(a)(14); 13
(D) the land described in subsection (a)(5) 14
shall be incorporated in, and considered to be a 15
part of, the Trinity Alps Wilderness as des-16
ignated by section 101(a)(34) of the California 17
Wilderness Act of 1984 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 18
98 Stat. 1623) (as amended by section 3(7) of 19
Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 20
120 Stat. 2065) and expanded by section 21
131(a)(15)); 22
(E) the land described in subsection (a)(6) 23
shall be incorporated in, and considered to be a 24
part of, the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness 25
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as designated by section 3 of the Wilderness 1
Act (16 U.S.C. 1132) (as amended by section 2
3(4) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 1132 3
note; 120 Stat. 2065) and expanded by section 4
131(a)(17)); and 5
(F) the land described in subsection (a)(7) 6
shall be incorporated in, and considered to be a 7
part of, the Yuki Wilderness as designated by 8
section 3(3) of Public Law 109–362 (16 U.S.C. 9
1132 note; 120 Stat. 2065) and expanded by 10
section 131(a)(18). 11
(f) REPORT.—Within 3 years after the date of enact-12
ment of this Act, and every 3 years thereafter until the 13
date upon which the potential wilderness is designated wil-14
derness under subsection (d), the Secretary shall submit 15
a report to the Committee on Natural Resources of the 16
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy 17
and Natural Resources of the Senate on the status of eco-18
logical restoration within the potential wilderness area and 19
the progress toward the potential wilderness area’s even-20
tual wilderness designation under subsection (d). 21
SEC. 134. DESIGNATION OF WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS. 22
Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 23
U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-24
lowing: 25
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‘‘(231) SOUTH FORK TRINITY RIVER.—The fol-1
lowing segments from the source tributaries in the 2
Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness, to be adminis-3
tered by the Secretary of Agriculture: 4
‘‘(A) The 18.3-mile segment from its mul-5
tiple source springs in the Cedar Basin of the 6
Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness in section 7
15, T. 27 N., R. 10 W. to .25 miles upstream 8
of the Wild Mad Road, as a wild river. 9
‘‘(B) The .65-mile segment from .25 miles 10
upstream of Wild Mad Road to the confluence 11
with the unnamed tributary approximately .4 12
miles downstream of the Wild Mad Road in sec-13
tion 29, T. 28 N., R. 11 W., as a scenic river. 14
‘‘(C) The 9.8-mile segment from .75 miles 15
downstream of Wild Mad Road to Silver Creek, 16
as a wild river. 17
‘‘(D) The 5.4-mile segment from Silver 18
Creek confluence to Farley Creek, as a scenic 19
river. 20
‘‘(E) The 3.6-mile segment from Farley 21
Creek to Cave Creek, as a recreational river. 22
‘‘(F) The 5.6-mile segment from Cave 23
Creek to the confluence of the unnamed creek 24
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upstream of Hidden Valley Ranch in section 5, 1
T. 15, R. 7 E., as a wild river. 2
‘‘(G) The 2.5-mile segment from unnamed 3
creek confluence upstream of Hidden Valley 4
Ranch to the confluence with the unnamed 5
creek flowing west from Bear Wallow Mountain 6
in section 29, T. 1 N., R. 7 E., as a scenic 7
river. 8
‘‘(H) The 3.8-mile segment from the 9
unnamed creek confluence in section 29, T. 1 10
N., R. 7 E. to Plummer Creek, as a wild river. 11
‘‘(I) The 1.8-mile segment from Plummer 12
Creek to the confluence with the unnamed trib-13
utary north of McClellan Place in section 6, T. 14
1 N., R. 7 E., as a scenic river. 15
‘‘(J) The 5.4-mile segment from the 16
unnamed tributary confluence in section 6, T. 1 17
N., R. 7 E. to Hitchcock Creek, as a wild river. 18
‘‘(K) The 7-mile segment from Eltapom 19
Creek to the Grouse Creek, as a scenic river. 20
‘‘(L) The 5-mile segment from Grouse 21
Creek to Coon Creek, as a wild river. 22
‘‘(232) EAST FORK SOUTH FORK TRINITY 23
RIVER.—The following segments to be administered 24
by the Secretary of Agriculture: 25
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‘‘(A) The 8.4-mile segment from its source 1
in the Pettijohn Basin in the Yolla Bolly-Middle 2
Eel Wilderness in section 10, T. 3 S., R. 10 W. 3
to .25 miles upstream of the Wild Mad Road, 4
as a wild river. 5
‘‘(B) The 3.4-mile segment from .25 miles 6
upstream of the Wild Mad Road to the South 7
Fork Trinity River, as a recreational river. 8
‘‘(233) RATTLESNAKE CREEK.—The 5.9-mile 9
segment from the confluence with the unnamed trib-10
utary in the southeast corner of section 5, T. 1 S., 11
R. 12 W. to the South Fork Trinity River, to be ad-12
ministered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a rec-13
reational river. 14
‘‘(234) BUTTER CREEK.—The 7-mile segment 15
from .25 miles downstream of the Road 3N08 cross-16
ing to the South Fork Trinity River, to be adminis-17
tered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a scenic 18
river. 19
‘‘(235) HAYFORK CREEK.—The following seg-20
ments to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-21
culture: 22
‘‘(A) The 3.2-mile segment from Little 23
Creek to Bear Creek, as a recreational river. 24
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‘‘(B) The 13.2-mile segment from Bear 1
Creek to the northern boundary of section 19, 2
T. 3 N., R. 7 E., as a scenic river. 3
‘‘(236) OLSEN CREEK.—The 2.8-mile segment 4
from the confluence of its source tributaries in sec-5
tion 5, T. 3 N., R. 7 E. to the northern boundary 6
of section 24, T. 3 N., R. 6 E., to be administered 7
by the Secretary of the Interior as a scenic river. 8
‘‘(237) RUSCH CREEK.—The 3.2-mile segment 9
from .25 miles downstream of the 32N11 Road 10
crossing to Hayfork Creek, to be administered by 11
the Secretary of Agriculture as a recreational river. 12
‘‘(238) ELTAPOM CREEK.—The 3.4-mile seg-13
ment from Buckhorn Creek to the South Fork Trin-14
ity River, to be administered by the Secretary of Ag-15
riculture as a wild river. 16
‘‘(239) GROUSE CREEK.—The following seg-17
ments to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-18
culture: 19
‘‘(A) The 3.9-mile segment from Carson 20
Creek to Cow Creek, as a scenic river. 21
‘‘(B) The 7.4-mile segment from Cow 22
Creek to the South Fork Trinity River, as a 23
recreational river. 24
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‘‘(240) MADDEN CREEK.—The following seg-1
ments to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-2
culture: 3
‘‘(A) The 6.8-mile segment from the con-4
fluence of Madden Creek and its unnamed trib-5
utary in section 18, T. 5 N., R. 5 E. to 6
Fourmile Creek, as a wild river. 7
‘‘(B) The 1.6-mile segment from Fourmile 8
Creek to the South Fork Trinity River, as a 9
recreational river. 10
‘‘(241) CANYON CREEK.—The following seg-11
ments to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-12
culture and the Secretary of the Interior: 13
‘‘(A) The 6.6-mile segment from the outlet 14
of lower Canyon Creek Lake to Bear Creek up-15
stream of Ripstein, as a wild river. 16
‘‘(B) The 11.2-mile segment from Bear 17
Creek upstream of Ripstein to the southern 18
boundary of section 25, T. 34 N., R. 11 W., as 19
a recreational river. 20
‘‘(242) NORTH FORK TRINITY RIVER.—The fol-21
lowing segments to be administered by the Secretary 22
of Agriculture: 23
‘‘(A) The 12-mile segment from the con-24
fluence of source tributaries in section 24, T. 8 25
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N., R. 12 W. to the Trinity Alps Wilderness 1
boundary upstream of Hobo Gulch, as a wild 2
river. 3
‘‘(B) The .5-mile segment from where the 4
river leaves the Trinity Alps Wilderness to 5
where it fully reenters the Trinity Alps Wilder-6
ness downstream of Hobo Gulch, as a scenic 7
river. 8
‘‘(C) The 13.9-mile segment from where 9
the river fully reenters the Trinity Alps Wilder-10
ness downstream of Hobo Gulch to the Trinity 11
Alps Wilderness boundary upstream of the 12
County Road 421 crossing, as a wild river. 13
‘‘(D) The 1.3-mile segment from the Trin-14
ity Alps Wilderness boundary upstream of the 15
County Road 421 crossing to the Trinity River, 16
as a recreational river. 17
‘‘(243) EAST FORK NORTH FORK TRINITY 18
RIVER.—The following segments to be administered 19
by the Secretary of Agriculture: 20
‘‘(A) The 9.5-mile segment from the river’s 21
source north of Mt. Hilton in section 19, T. 36 22
N., R. 10 W. to the end of Road 35N20 ap-23
proximately .5 miles downstream of the con-24
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fluence with the East Branch East Fork North 1
Fork Trinity River, as a wild river. 2
‘‘(B) The 3.25-mile segment from the end 3
of Road 35N20 to .25 miles upstream of 4
Coleridge, as a scenic river. 5
‘‘(C) The 4.6-mile segment from .25 miles 6
upstream of Coleridge to the confluence of Fox 7
Gulch, as a recreational river. 8
‘‘(244) NEW RIVER.—The following segments 9
to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture: 10
‘‘(A) The 12.7-mile segment of Virgin 11
Creek from its source spring in section 22, T. 12
9 N., R. 7 E. to Slide Creek, as a wild river. 13
‘‘(B) The 2.3-mile segment of the New 14
River where it begins at the confluence of Vir-15
gin and Slide Creeks to Barron Creek, as a wild 16
river. 17
‘‘(245) MIDDLE EEL RIVER.—The following 18
segment, to be administered by the Secretary of Ag-19
riculture: 20
‘‘(A) The 37.7-mile segment from its 21
source in Frying Pan Meadow to Rose Creek, 22
as a wild river. 23
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‘‘(B) The 1.5-mile segment from Rose 1
Creek to the Black Butte River, as a rec-2
reational river. 3
‘‘(C) The 10.5-mile segment of Balm of 4
Gilead Creek from its source in Hopkins Hollow 5
to the Middle Eel River, as a wild river. 6
‘‘(D) The 13-mile segment of the North 7
Fork Middle Fork Eel River from the source on 8
Dead Puppy Ridge in section 11, T. 26 N., R. 9
11 W. to the confluence of the Middle Eel 10
River, as a wild river. 11
‘‘(246) NORTH FORK EEL RIVER, CA.—The 12
14.3-mile segment from the confluence with Gilman 13
Creek to the Six Rivers National Forest boundary, 14
to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture 15
as a wild river. 16
‘‘(247) RED MOUNTAIN CREEK, CA.—The fol-17
lowing segments to be administered by the Secretary 18
of Agriculture: 19
‘‘(A) The 5.25-mile segment from its 20
source west of Mike’s Rock in section 23, T. 26 21
N., R. 12 E. to the confluence with Littlefield 22
Creek, as a wild river. 23
‘‘(B) The 1.6-mile segment from the con-24
fluence with Littlefield Creek to the confluence 25
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with the unnamed tributary in section 32, T. 26 1
N., R. 8 E., as a scenic river. 2
‘‘(C) The 1.25-mile segment from the con-3
fluence with the unnamed tributary in section 4
32, T. 4 S., R. 8 E. to the confluence with the 5
North Fork Eel River, as a wild river. 6
‘‘(248) REDWOOD CREEK.—The following seg-7
ments to be administered by the Secretary of the In-8
terior: 9
‘‘(A) The 6.2-mile segment from the con-10
fluence with Lacks Creek to the confluence with 11
Coyote Creek as a scenic river on publication by 12
the Secretary of a notice in the Federal Reg-13
ister that sufficient inholdings within the 14
boundaries of the segments have been acquired 15
in fee title to establish a manageable addition 16
to the system. 17
‘‘(B) The 19.1-mile segment from the con-18
fluence with Coyote Creek in section 2, T. 8 N., 19
R. 2 E. to the Redwood National Park bound-20
ary upstream of Orick in section 34, T. 11 N., 21
R. 1 E. as a scenic river. 22
‘‘(C) The 2.3-mile segment of Emerald 23
Creek (also known as Harry Weir Creek) from 24
its source in section 29, T. 10 N., R. 2 E. to 25
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the confluence with Redwood Creek as a scenic 1
river. 2
‘‘(249) LACKS CREEK.—The following segments 3
to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior: 4
‘‘(A) The 5.1-mile segment from the con-5
fluence with two unnamed tributaries in section 6
14, T. 7 N., R. 3 E. to Kings Crossing in sec-7
tion 27, T. 8 N., R. 3 E. as a wild river. 8
‘‘(B) The 2.7-mile segment from Kings 9
Crossing to the confluence with Redwood Creek 10
as a scenic river upon publication by the Sec-11
retary of a notice in the Federal Register that 12
sufficient inholdings within the segment have 13
been acquired in fee title or as scenic easements 14
to establish a manageable addition to the sys-15
tem. 16
‘‘(250) LOST MAN CREEK.—The following seg-17
ments to be administered by the Secretary of the In-18
terior: 19
‘‘(A) The 6.4-mile segment of Lost Man 20
Creek from its source in section 5, T. 10 N., R. 21
2 E. to .25 miles upstream of the Prairie Creek 22
confluence, as a recreational river. 23
‘‘(B) The 2.3-mile segment of Larry 24
Damm Creek from its source in section 8, T. 11 25
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N., R. 2 E. to the confluence with Lost Man 1
Creek, as a recreational river. 2
‘‘(251) LITTLE LOST MAN CREEK.—The 3.6- 3
mile segment of Little Lost Man Creek from its 4
source in section 6, T. 10 N., R. 2 E. to .25 miles 5
upstream of the Lost Man Creek road crossing, to 6
be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as 7
a wild river. 8
‘‘(252) SOUTH FORK ELK RIVER.—The fol-9
lowing segments to be administered by the Secretary 10
of the Interior through a cooperative management 11
agreement with the State of California: 12
‘‘(A) The 3.6-mile segment of the Little 13
South Fork Elk River from the source in sec-14
tion 21, T. 3 N., R. 1 E. to the confluence with 15
the South Fork Elk River, as a wild river. 16
‘‘(B) The 2.2-mile segment of the 17
unnamed tributary of the Little South Fork Elk 18
River from its source in section 15, T. 3 N., R. 19
1 E. to the confluence with the Little South 20
Fork Elk River, as a wild river. 21
‘‘(C) The 3.6-mile segment of the South 22
Fork Elk River from the confluence of the Lit-23
tle South Fork Elk River to the confluence with 24
Tom Gulch, as a recreational river. 25
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‘‘(253) SALMON CREEK.—The 4.6-mile segment 1
from its source in section 27, T. 3 N., R. 1 E. to 2
the Headwaters Forest Reserve boundary in section 3
18, T. 3 N., R. 1 E. to be administered by the Sec-4
retary of the Interior as a wild river through a coop-5
erative management agreement with the State of 6
California. 7
‘‘(254) SOUTH FORK EEL RIVER.—The fol-8
lowing segments to be administered by the Secretary 9
of the Interior: 10
‘‘(A) The 6.2-mile segment from the con-11
fluence with Jack of Hearts Creek to the south-12
ern boundary of the South Fork Eel Wilderness 13
in section 8, T. 22 N., R. 16 W., as a rec-14
reational river to be administered by the Sec-15
retary through a cooperative management 16
agreement with the State of California. 17
‘‘(B) The 6.1-mile segment from the south-18
ern boundary of the South Fork Eel Wilderness 19
to the northern boundary of the South Fork 20
Eel Wilderness in section 29, T. 23 N., R. 16 21
W., as a wild river. 22
‘‘(255) ELDER CREEK.—The following seg-23
ments to be administered by the Secretary of the In-24
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terior through a cooperative management agreement 1
with the State of California: 2
‘‘(A) The 3.6-mile segment from its source 3
north of Signal Peak in section 6, T. 21 N., R. 4
15 W. to the confluence with the unnamed trib-5
utary near the center of section 28, T. 22 N., 6
R. 16 W., as a wild river. 7
‘‘(B) The 1.3-mile segment from the con-8
fluence with the unnamed tributary near the 9
center of section 28, T. 22 N., R. 15 W. to the 10
confluence with the South Fork Eel River, as a 11
recreational river. 12
‘‘(C) The 2.1-mile segment of Paralyze 13
Canyon from its source south of Signal Peak in 14
section 7, T. 21 N., R. 15 W. to the confluence 15
with Elder Creek, as a wild river. 16
‘‘(256) CEDAR CREEK.—The following seg-17
ments to be administered as a wild river by the Sec-18
retary of the Interior: 19
‘‘(A) The 7.7-mile segment from its source 20
in section 22, T. 24 N., R. 16 W. to the south-21
ern boundary of the Red Mountain unit of the 22
South Fork Eel Wilderness. 23
‘‘(B) The 1.9-mile segment of North Fork 24
Cedar Creek from its source in section 28, T. 25
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24 N., R. 16 E. to the confluence with Cedar 1
Creek. 2
‘‘(257) EAST BRANCH SOUTH FORK EEL 3
RIVER.—The following segments to be administered 4
by the Secretary of the Interior as a scenic river on 5
publication by the Secretary of a notice in the Fed-6
eral Register that sufficient inholdings within the 7
boundaries of the segments have been acquired in 8
fee title or as scenic easements to establish a man-9
ageable addition to the system: 10
‘‘(A) The 2.3-mile segment of Cruso Cabin 11
Creek from the confluence of two unnamed trib-12
utaries in section 18, T. 24 N., R. 15 W. to the 13
confluence with Elkhorn Creek. 14
‘‘(B) The 1.8-mile segment of Elkhorn 15
Creek from the confluence of two unnamed trib-16
utaries in section 22, T. 24 N., R. 16 W. to the 17
confluence with Cruso Cabin Creek. 18
‘‘(C) The 14.2-mile segment of the East 19
Branch South Fork Eel River from the con-20
fluence of Cruso Cabin and Elkhorn Creeks to 21
the confluence with Rays Creek. 22
‘‘(D) The 1.7-mile segment of the 23
unnamed tributary from its source on the north 24
flank of Red Mountain’s north ridge in section 25
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2, T. 24 N., R. 17 W. to the confluence with 1
the East Branch South Fork Eel River. 2
‘‘(E) The 1.3-mile segment of the 3
unnamed tributary from its source on the north 4
flank of Red Mountain’s north ridge in section 5
1, T. 24 N., R. 17 W. to the confluence with 6
the East Branch South Fork Eel River. 7
‘‘(F) The 1.8-mile segment of Tom Long 8
Creek from the confluence with the unnamed 9
tributary in section 12, T. 5 S., R. 4 E. to the 10
confluence with the East Branch South Fork 11
Eel River. 12
‘‘(258) MATTOLE RIVER ESTUARY.—The 1.5- 13
mile segment from the confluence of Stansberry 14
Creek to the Pacific Ocean, to be administered as a 15
recreational river by the Secretary of the Interior. 16
‘‘(259) HONEYDEW CREEK.—The following seg-17
ments to be administered as a wild river by the Sec-18
retary of the Interior: 19
‘‘(A) The 5.1-mile segment of Honeydew 20
Creek from its source in the southwest corner 21
of section 25, T. 3 S., R. 1 W. to the eastern 22
boundary of the King Range National Con-23
servation Area in section 18, T. 3 S., R. 1 E. 24
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‘‘(B) The 2.8-mile segment of West Fork 1
Honeydew Creek from its source west of North 2
Slide Peak to the confluence with Honeydew 3
Creek. 4
‘‘(C) The 2.7-mile segment of Upper East 5
Fork Honeydew Creek from its source in sec-6
tion 23, T. 3 S., R. 1 W. to the confluence with 7
Honeydew Creek. 8
‘‘(260) BEAR CREEK.—The following segments 9
to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior: 10
‘‘(A) The 1.9-mile segment of North Fork 11
Bear Creek from the confluence with the 12
unnamed tributary immediately downstream of 13
the Horse Mountain Road crossing to the con-14
fluence with the South Fork, as a scenic river. 15
‘‘(B) The 6.1-mile segment of South Fork 16
Bear Creek from the confluence in section 2, T. 17
5 S., R. 1 W. with the unnamed tributary flow-18
ing from the southwest flank of Queen Peak to 19
the confluence with the North Fork, as a scenic 20
river. 21
‘‘(C) The 3-mile segment of Bear Creek 22
from the confluence of the North and South 23
Forks to the southern boundary of section 11, 24
T. 4 S., R. 1 E., as a wild river. 25
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‘‘(261) GITCHELL CREEK.—The 3-mile segment 1
of Gitchell Creek from its source near Saddle Moun-2
tain to the Pacific Ocean to be administered by the 3
Secretary of the Interior as a wild river. 4
‘‘(262) BIG FLAT CREEK.—The following seg-5
ments to be administered by the Secretary of the In-6
terior as a wild river: 7
‘‘(A) The 4-mile segment of Big Flat 8
Creek from its source near King Peak in sec-9
tion 36, T. 3 S., R. 1 W. to the Pacific Ocean. 10
‘‘(B) The .8-mile segment of the unnamed 11
tributary from its source in section 35, T. 3 S., 12
R. 1 W. to the confluence with Big Flat Creek. 13
‘‘(C) The 2.7-mile segment of North Fork 14
Big Flat Creek from the source in section 34, 15
T. 3 S., R. 1 W. to the confluence with Big 16
Flat Creek. 17
‘‘(263) BIG CREEK.—The following segments to 18
be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as 19
wild rivers: 20
‘‘(A) The 2.7-mile segment of Big Creek 21
from its source in section 26, T. 3 S., R. 1 W. 22
to the Pacific Ocean. 23
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‘‘(B) The 1.9-mile unnamed southern trib-1
utary from its source in section 25, T. 3 S., R. 2
1 W. to the confluence with Big Creek. 3
‘‘(264) ELK CREEK.—The 11.4-mile segment 4
from its confluence with Lookout Creek to its con-5
fluence with Deep Hole Creek, to be jointly adminis-6
tered by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Inte-7
rior, as a wild river. 8
‘‘(265) EDEN CREEK.—The 2.7-mile segment 9
from the private property boundary in the northwest 10
quarter of section 27, T. 21 N., R. 12 W. to the 11
eastern boundary of section 23, T. 21 N., R. 12 W., 12
to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior 13
as a wild river. 14
‘‘(266) DEEP HOLE CREEK.—The 4.3-mile seg-15
ment from the private property boundary in the 16
southwest quarter of section 13, T. 20 N., R. 12 W. 17
to the confluence with Elk Creek, to be administered 18
by the Secretary of the Interior as a wild river. 19
‘‘(267) INDIAN CREEK.—The 3.3-mile segment 20
from 300 feet downstream of the jeep trail in section 21
13, T. 20 N., R. 13 W. to the confluence with the 22
Eel River, to be administered by the Secretary of the 23
Interior as a wild river. 24
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‘‘(268) FISH CREEK.—The 4.2-mile segment 1
from the source at Buckhorn Spring to the con-2
fluence with the Eel River, to be administered by the 3
Secretary of the Interior as a wild river.’’. 4
SEC. 135. SANHEDRIN SPECIAL CONSERVATION MANAGE-5
MENT AREA. 6
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Subject to valid existing 7
rights, there is established the Sanhedrin Special Con-8
servation Management Area (referred to in this section as 9
the ‘‘conservation management area’’), comprising ap-10
proximately 14,177 acres of Federal land administered by 11
the Forest Service in Mendocino County, California, as 12
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Sanhedrin Special 13
Conservation Management Area—Proposed’’ and dated 14
April 12, 2017. 15
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the conservation 16
management area are to— 17
(1) conserve, protect, and enhance for the ben-18
efit and enjoyment of present and future generations 19
the ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, roadless, 20
cultural, historical, natural, educational, and sci-21
entific resources of the conservation management 22
area; 23
(2) protect and restore late-successional forest 24
structure, oak woodlands and grasslands, aquatic 25
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habitat, and anadromous fisheries within the con-1
servation management area; 2
(3) protect and restore the wilderness character 3
of the conservation management area; and 4
(4) allow visitors to enjoy the scenic, natural, 5
cultural, and wildlife values of the conservation man-6
agement area. 7
(c) MANAGEMENT.— 8
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage 9
the conservation management area— 10
(A) in a manner consistent with the pur-11
poses described in subsection (b); and 12
(B) in accordance with— 13
(i) the laws (including regulations) 14
generally applicable to the National Forest 15
System; 16
(ii) this section; and 17
(iii) any other applicable law (includ-18
ing regulations). 19
(2) USES.—The Secretary shall only allow uses 20
of the conservation management area that the Sec-21
retary determines would further the purposes de-22
scribed in subsection (b). 23
(d) MOTORIZED VEHICLES.— 24
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-1
graph (3), the use of motorized vehicles in the con-2
servation management area shall be permitted only 3
on existing roads, trails, and areas designated for 4
use by such vehicles as of the date of enactment of 5
this Act. 6
(2) NEW OR TEMPORARY ROADS.—Except as 7
provided in paragraph (3), no new or temporary 8
roads shall be constructed within the conservation 9
management area. 10
(3) EXCEPTION.—Nothing in paragraph (1) or 11
(2) prevents the Secretary from— 12
(A) rerouting or closing an existing road or 13
trail to protect natural resources from degrada-14
tion, or to protect public safety, as determined 15
to be appropriate by the Secretary; 16
(B) designating routes of travel on lands 17
acquired by the Secretary and incorporated into 18
the conservation management area if the des-19
ignations are— 20
(i) consistent with the purposes de-21
scribed in subsection (b); and 22
(ii) completed, to the maximum extent 23
practicable, within 3 years of the date of 24
acquisition; 25
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(C) constructing a temporary road on 1
which motorized vehicles are permitted as part 2
of a vegetation management project carried out 3
in accordance with subsection (e); 4
(D) authorizing the use of motorized vehi-5
cles for administrative purposes; or 6
(E) responding to an emergency. 7
(4) DECOMMISSIONING OF TEMPORARY 8
ROADS.— 9
(A) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary shall 10
decommission any temporary road constructed 11
under paragraph (3)(C) not later than 3 years 12
after the date on which the applicable vegeta-13
tion management project is completed. 14
(B) DEFINITION.—As used in subpara-15
graph (A), the term ‘‘decommission’’ means— 16
(i) to reestablish vegetation on a road; 17
and 18
(ii) to restore any natural drainage, 19
watershed function, or other ecological 20
processes that are disrupted or adversely 21
impacted by the road by removing or 22
hydrologically disconnecting the road 23
prism. 24
(e) TIMBER HARVEST.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-1
graph (2), no harvesting of timber shall be allowed 2
within the conservation management area. 3
(2) EXCEPTIONS.—The Secretary may author-4
ize harvesting of timber in the conservation manage-5
ment area— 6
(A) if the Secretary determines that the 7
harvesting is necessary to further the purposes 8
of the conservation management area; 9
(B) in a manner consistent with the pur-10
poses described in subsection (b); and 11
(C) subject to— 12
(i) such reasonable regulations, poli-13
cies, and practices as the Secretary deter-14
mines appropriate; and 15
(ii) all applicable laws (including regu-16
lations). 17
(f) GRAZING.—The grazing of livestock in the con-18
servation management area, where established before the 19
date of enactment of this Act, shall be permitted to con-20
tinue— 21
(1) subject to— 22
(A) such reasonable regulations, policies, 23
and practices as the Secretary considers nec-24
essary; and 25
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(B) applicable law (including regulations); 1
and 2
(2) in a manner consistent with the purposes 3
described in subsection (b). 4
(g) WILDFIRE, INSECT, AND DISEASE MANAGE-5
MENT.—Consistent with this section, the Secretary may 6
take any measures within the conservation management 7
area that the Secretary determines to be necessary to con-8
trol fire, insects, and diseases, including the coordination 9
of those activities with a State or local agency. 10
(h) ACQUISITION AND INCORPORATION OF LAND AND 11
INTERESTS IN LAND.— 12
(1) ACQUISITION AUTHORITY.—In accordance 13
with applicable laws (including regulations), the Sec-14
retary may acquire any land or interest in land with-15
in or adjacent to the boundaries of the conservation 16
management area by purchase from willing sellers, 17
donation, or exchange. 18
(2) INCORPORATION.—Any land or interest in 19
land acquired by the Secretary under paragraph (1) 20
shall be— 21
(A) incorporated into, and administered as 22
part of, the conservation management area; and 23
(B) withdrawn in accordance with sub-24
section (i). 25
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(i) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 1
all Federal land located in the conservation management 2
area is withdrawn from— 3
(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-4
posal under the public land laws; 5
(2) location, entry, and patenting under the 6
mining laws; and 7
(3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral 8
materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 9
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous 10
SEC. 141. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS. 11
(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the 12
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare 13
maps and legal descriptions of the— 14
(1) wilderness areas and wilderness additions 15
designated by section 131; 16
(2) potential wilderness areas designated by 17
section 133; 18
(3) South Fork Trinity-Mad River Restoration 19
Area; 20
(4) Horse Mountain Special Management Area; 21
and 22
(5) Sanhedrin Special Conservation Manage-23
ment Area. 24
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(b) SUBMISSION OF MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIP-1
TIONS.—The Secretary shall file the maps and legal de-2
scriptions prepared under subsection (a) with— 3
(1) the Committee on Natural Resources of the 4
House of Representatives; and 5
(2) the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-6
sources of the Senate. 7
(c) FORCE OF LAW.—The maps and legal descrip-8
tions prepared under subsection (a) shall have the same 9
force and effect as if included in this title, except that 10
the Secretary may correct any clerical and typographical 11
errors in the maps and legal descriptions. 12
(d) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The maps and legal de-13
scriptions prepared under subsection (a) shall be on file 14
and available for public inspection in the appropriate of-15
fices of the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, 16
and National Park Service. 17
SEC. 142. UPDATES TO LAND AND RESOURCE MANAGE-18
MENT PLANS. 19
As soon as practicable, in accordance with applicable 20
laws (including regulations), the Secretary shall incor-21
porate the designations and studies required by this title 22
into updated management plans for units covered by this 23
title. 24
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SEC. 143. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY UTILITY 1
FACILITIES AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY. 2
(a) EFFECT OF ACT.—Nothing in this title— 3
(1) affects any validly issued right-of-way for 4
the customary operation, maintenance, upgrade, re-5
pair, relocation within an existing right-of-way, re-6
placement, or other authorized activity (including 7
the use of any mechanized vehicle, helicopter, and 8
other aerial device) in a right-of-way acquired by or 9
issued, granted, or permitted to Pacific Gas and 10
Electric Company (including any predecessor or suc-11
cessor in interest or assign) that is located on land 12
included in the South Fork Trinity-Mad River Res-13
toration Area, Bigfoot National Recreation Trail, 14
Sanhedrin Special Conservation Management Area, 15
and Horse Mountain Special Management Area; or 16
(2) prohibits the upgrading or replacement of 17
any— 18
(A) utility facilities of the Pacific Gas and 19
Electric Company, including those utility facili-20
ties known on the date of enactment of this Act 21
within the— 22
(i) South Fork Trinity-Mad River 23
Restoration Area known as— 24
(I) Gas Transmission Line 177A 25
or rights-of-way; 26
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(II) Gas Transmission Line 1
DFM 1312–02 or rights-of-way; 2
(III) Electric Transmission Line 3
Bridgeville–Cottonwood 115 kV or 4
rights-of-way; 5
(IV) Electric Transmission Line 6
Humboldt–Trinity 60 kV or rights-of- 7
way; 8
(V) Electric Transmission Line 9
Humboldt–Trinity 115 kV or rights- 10
of-way; 11
(VI) Electric Transmission Line 12
Maple Creek–Hoopa 60 kV or rights- 13
of-way; 14
(VII) Electric Distribution Line– 15
Willow Creek 1101 12 kV or rights- 16
of-way; 17
(VIII) Electric Distribution 18
Line–Willow Creek 1103 12 kV or 19
rights-of-way; 20
(IX) Electric Distribution Line– 21
Low Gap 1101 12 kV or rights-of- 22
way; 23
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(X) Electric Distribution Line– 1
Fort Seward 1121 12 kV or rights-of- 2
way; 3
(XI) Forest Glen Border District 4
Regulator Station or rights-of-way; 5
(XII) Durret District Gas Regu-6
lator Station or rights-of-way; 7
(XIII) Gas Distribution Line 8
4269C or rights-of-way; 9
(XIV) Gas Distribution Line 10
43991 or rights-of-way; 11
(XV) Gas Distribution Line 12
4993D or rights-of-way; 13
(XVI) Sportsmans Club District 14
Gas Regulator Station or rights-of- 15
way; 16
(XVII) Highway 36 and Zenia 17
District Gas Regulator Station or 18
rights-of-way; 19
(XVIII) Dinsmore Lodge 2nd 20
Stage Gas Regulator Station or 21
rights-of-way; 22
(XIX) Electric Distribution 23
Line–Wildwood 1101 12kV or rights- 24
of-way; 25
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(XX) Low Gap Substation; 1
(XXI) Hyampom Switching Sta-2
tion; or 3
(XXII) Wildwood Substation; 4
(ii) Bigfoot National Recreation Trail 5
known as— 6
(I) Gas Transmission Line 177A 7
or rights-of-way; 8
(II) Electric Transmission Line 9
Humboldt–Trinity 115 kV or rights- 10
of-way; 11
(III) Electric Transmission Line 12
Bridgeville–Cottonwood 115 kV or 13
rights-of-way; or 14
(IV) Electric Transmission Line 15
Humboldt–Trinity 60 kV or rights-of- 16
way; 17
(iii) Sanhedrin Special Conservation 18
Management Area known as, Electric Dis-19
tribution Line–Willits 1103 12 kV or 20
rights-of-way; or 21
(iv) Horse Mountain Special Manage-22
ment Area known as, Electric Distribution 23
Line Willow Creek 1101 12 kV or rights- 24
of-way; or 25
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(B) utility facilities of the Pacific Gas and 1
Electric Company in rights-of-way issued, 2
granted, or permitted by the Secretary adjacent 3
to a utility facility referred to in paragraph (1). 4
(b) PLANS FOR ACCESS.—Not later than 1 year after 5
the date of enactment of this subtitle or the issuance of 6
a new utility facility right-of-way within the South Fork 7
Trinity-Mad River Restoration Area, Bigfoot National 8
Recreation Trail, Sanhedrin Special Conservation Man-9
agement Area, and Horse Mountain Special Management 10
Area, whichever is later, the Secretary, in consultation 11
with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, shall publish 12
plans for regular and emergency access by the Pacific Gas 13
and Electric Company to the rights-of-way of the Pacific 14
Gas and Electric Company. 15
TITLE II—CENTRAL COAST 16
HERITAGE PROTECTION 17
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 18
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Central Coast Herit-19
age Protection Act’’. 20
SEC. 202. DEFINITIONS. 21
In this title: 22
(1) SCENIC AREAS.—The term ‘‘scenic area’’ 23
means a scenic area designated by section 208(a). 24
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(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 1
means— 2
(A) with respect to land managed by the 3
Bureau of Land Management, the Secretary of 4
the Interior; and 5
(B) with respect to land managed by the 6
Forest Service, the Secretary of Agriculture. 7
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 8
of California. 9
(4) WILDERNESS AREA.—The term ‘‘wilderness 10
area’’ means a wilderness area or wilderness addi-11
tion designated by section 203(a). 12
SEC. 203. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS. 13
(a) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with the Wilderness 14
Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following areas in the 15
State are designated as wilderness areas and as compo-16
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation System: 17
(1) Certain land in the Bakersfield Field Office 18
of the Bureau of Land Management comprising ap-19
proximately 35,116 acres, as generally depicted on 20
the map entitled ‘‘Proposed Caliente Mountain Wil-21
derness’’ and dated November 13, 2019, which shall 22
be known as the ‘‘Caliente Mountain Wilderness’’. 23
(2) Certain land in the Bakersfield Field Office 24
of the Bureau of Land Management comprising ap-25
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proximately 13,332 acres, as generally depicted on 1
the map entitled ‘‘Proposed Soda Lake Wilderness’’ 2
and dated June 25, 2019, which shall be known as 3
the ‘‘Soda Lake Wilderness’’. 4
(3) Certain land in the Bakersfield Field Office 5
of the Bureau of Land Management comprising ap-6
proximately 12,585 acres, as generally depicted on 7
the map entitled ‘‘Proposed Temblor Range Wilder-8
ness’’ and dated June 25, 2019, which shall be 9
known as the ‘‘Temblor Range Wilderness’’. 10
(4) Certain land in the Los Padres National 11
Forest comprising approximately 23,670 acres, as 12
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Chumash 13
Wilderness Area Additions—Proposed’’ and dated 14
March 29, 2019, which shall be incorporated into 15
and managed as part of the Chumash Wilderness as 16
designated by the Los Padres Condor Range and 17
River Protection Act (Public Law 102–301; 106 18
Stat. 242). 19
(5) Certain land in the Los Padres National 20
Forest comprising approximately 54,036 acres, as 21
generally depicted on the maps entitled ‘‘Dick Smith 22
Wilderness Area Additions—Proposed Map 1 of 2 23
(Bear Canyon and Cuyama Peak Units)’’ and ‘‘Dick 24
Smith Wilderness Area Additions—Proposed Map 2 25
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of 2 (Buckhorn and Mono Units)’’ and dated No-1
vember 14, 2019, which shall be incorporated into 2
and managed as part of the Dick Smith Wilderness 3
as designated by the California Wilderness Act of 4
1984 (Public Law 98–425; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note). 5
(6) Certain land in the Los Padres National 6
Forest and the Bakersfield Field Office of the Bu-7
reau of Land Management comprising approximately 8
7,289 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-9
tled ‘‘Garcia Wilderness Area Additions—Proposed’’ 10
and dated March 29, 2019, which shall be incor-11
porated into and managed as part of the Garcia Wil-12
derness as designated by the Los Padres Condor 13
Range and River Protection Act (Public Law 102– 14
301; 106 Stat. 242). 15
(7) Certain land in the Los Padres National 16
Forest and the Bakersfield Field Office of the Bu-17
reau of Land Management comprising approximately 18
8,774 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-19
tled ‘‘Machesna Mountain Wilderness—Proposed 20
Additions’’ and dated October 30, 2019, which shall 21
be incorporated into and managed as part of the 22
Machesna Mountain Wilderness as designated by the 23
California Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98– 24
425; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note). 25
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(8) Certain land in the Los Padres National 1
Forest comprising approximately 30,184 acres, as 2
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Matilija Wil-3
derness Area Additions—Proposed’’ and dated 4
March 29, 2019, which shall be incorporated into 5
and managed as part of the Matilija Wilderness as 6
designated by the Los Padres Condor Range and 7
River Protection Act (Public Law 102–301; 106 8
Stat. 242). 9
(9) Certain land in the Los Padres National 10
Forest comprising approximately 23,969 acres, as 11
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘San Rafael 12
Wilderness Area Additions—Proposed’’ and dated 13
March 29, 2019, which shall be incorporated into 14
and managed as part of the San Rafael Wilderness 15
as designated by Public Law 90–271 (82 Stat. 51), 16
the California Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 17
98–425; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note), and the Los Padres 18
Condor Range and River Protection Act (Public Law 19
102–301; 106 Stat. 242). 20
(10) Certain land in the Los Padres National 21
Forest comprising approximately 2,921 acres, as 22
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Santa Lucia 23
Wilderness Area Additions—Proposed’’ and dated 24
March 29, 2019, which shall be incorporated into 25
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and managed as part of the Santa Lucia Wilderness 1
as designated by the Endangered American Wilder-2
ness Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–237; 16 U.S.C. 3
1132 note). 4
(11) Certain land in the Los Padres National 5
Forest comprising approximately 14,313 acres, as 6
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Sespe Wil-7
derness Area Additions—Proposed’’ and dated 8
March 29, 2019, which shall be incorporated into 9
and managed as part of the Sespe Wilderness as 10
designated by the Los Padres Condor Range and 11
River Protection Act (Public Law 102–301; 106 12
Stat. 242). 13
(12) Certain land in the Los Padres National 14
Forest comprising approximately 17,870 acres, as 15
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Diablo 16
Caliente Wilderness Area—Proposed’’ and dated 17
March 29, 2019, which shall be known as the ‘‘Dia-18
blo Caliente Wilderness’’. 19
(b) MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.— 20
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 21
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 22
shall file maps and legal descriptions of the wilder-23
ness areas with— 24
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(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 1
Resources of the Senate; and 2
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 3
of the House of Representatives. 4
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The maps and legal de-5
scriptions filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 6
same force and effect as if included in this title, ex-7
cept that the Secretary may correct any clerical and 8
typographical errors in the maps and legal descrip-9
tions. 10
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The maps and 11
legal descriptions filed under paragraph (1) shall be 12
on file and available for public inspection in the ap-13
propriate offices of the Forest Service and Bureau 14
of Land Management. 15
SEC. 204. DESIGNATION OF THE MACHESNA MOUNTAIN PO-16
TENTIAL WILDERNESS. 17
(a) DESIGNATION.—In furtherance of the purposes of 18
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), certain land 19
in the Los Padres National Forest comprising approxi-20
mately 2,359 acres, as generally depicted on the map enti-21
tled ‘‘Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness’’ and 22
dated March 29, 2019, is designated as the Machesna 23
Mountain Potential Wilderness Area. 24
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 1
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 2
shall file a map and legal description of the 3
Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness Area (re-4
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘potential wilderness 5
area’’) with— 6
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 7
Resources of the Senate; and 8
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 9
of the House of Representatives. 10
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The map and legal de-11
scription filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 12
same force and effect as if included in this title, ex-13
cept that the Secretary may correct any clerical and 14
typographical errors in the map and legal descrip-15
tion. 16
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map and legal 17
description filed under paragraph (1) shall be on file 18
and available for public inspection in the appropriate 19
offices of the Forest Service. 20
(c) MANAGEMENT.—Except as provided in subsection 21
(d) and subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall 22
manage the potential wilderness area in accordance with 23
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.). 24
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(d) TRAIL USE, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, 1
AND REALIGNMENT.— 2
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with para-3
graph (2), the Secretary may reconstruct, realign, or 4
reroute the Pine Mountain Trail. 5
(2) REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out the recon-6
struction, realignment, or rerouting under paragraph 7
(1), the Secretary shall— 8
(A) comply with all existing laws (including 9
regulations); and 10
(B) to the maximum extent practicable, 11
use the minimum tool or administrative practice 12
necessary to accomplish the reconstruction, re-13
alignment, or rerouting with the least amount 14
of adverse impact on wilderness character and 15
resources. 16
(3) MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND MACHINERY.— 17
In accordance with paragraph (2), the Secretary 18
may use motorized vehicles and machinery to carry 19
out the trail reconstruction, realignment, or rerout-20
ing authorized by this subsection. 21
(4) MOTORIZED AND MECHANIZED VEHI-22
CLES.—The Secretary may permit the use of motor-23
ized and mechanized vehicles on the existing Pine 24
Mountain Trail in accordance with existing law (in-25
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cluding regulations) and this subsection until such 1
date as the potential wilderness area is designated 2
as wilderness in accordance with subsection (h). 3
(e) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 4
the Federal land in the potential wilderness area is with-5
drawn from all forms of— 6
(1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 7
public land laws; 8
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 9
laws; and 10
(3) disposition under all laws pertaining to min-11
eral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 12
(f) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—In carrying out 13
this section, the Secretary may enter into cooperative 14
agreements with State, Tribal, and local governmental en-15
tities and private entities to complete the trail reconstruc-16
tion, realignment, or rerouting authorized by subsection 17
(d). 18
(g) BOUNDARIES.—The Secretary shall modify the 19
boundary of the potential wilderness area to exclude any 20
area within 150 feet of the centerline of the new location 21
of any trail that has been reconstructed, realigned, or re-22
routed under subsection (d). 23
(h) WILDERNESS DESIGNATION.— 24
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The potential wilderness 1
area, as modified under subsection (g), shall be des-2
ignated as wilderness and as a component of the Na-3
tional Wilderness Preservation System on the earlier 4
of— 5
(A) the date on which the Secretary pub-6
lishes in the Federal Register notice that the 7
trail reconstruction, realignment, or rerouting 8
authorized by subsection (d) has been com-9
pleted; or 10
(B) the date that is 20 years after the date 11
of enactment of this Act. 12
(2) ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS.—On 13
designation as wilderness under this section, the po-14
tential wilderness area shall be— 15
(A) incorporated into the Machesna Moun-16
tain Wilderness Area, as designated by the Cali-17
fornia Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98– 18
425; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) and expanded by 19
section 203; and 20
(B) administered in accordance with sec-21
tion 205 and the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 22
1131 et seq.). 23
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SEC. 205. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS. 1
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 2
the wilderness areas shall be administered by the Sec-3
retary in accordance with this title and the Wilderness Act 4
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), except that— 5
(1) any reference in the Wilderness Act (16 6
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) to the effective date of that Act 7
shall be considered to be a reference to the date of 8
enactment of this Act; and 9
(2) any reference in the Wilderness Act (16 10
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) to the Secretary of Agriculture 11
shall be considered to be a reference to the Secretary 12
that has jurisdiction over the wilderness area. 13
(b) FIRE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED ACTIVI-14
TIES.— 15
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may take any 16
measures in a wilderness area as are necessary for 17
the control of fire, insects, and diseases in accord-18
ance with section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 19
U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)) and House Report 98–40 of the 20
98th Congress. 21
(2) FUNDING PRIORITIES.—Nothing in this title 22
limits funding for fire and fuels management in the 23
wilderness areas. 24
(3) REVISION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL 25
FIRE MANAGEMENT PLANS.—As soon as practicable 26
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after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-1
retary shall amend the local information in the Fire 2
Management Reference System or individual oper-3
ational plans that apply to the land designated as a 4
wilderness area. 5
(4) ADMINISTRATION.—Consistent with para-6
graph (1) and other applicable Federal law, to en-7
sure a timely and efficient response to fire emer-8
gencies in the wilderness areas, the Secretary shall 9
enter into agreements with appropriate State or 10
local firefighting agencies. 11
(c) GRAZING.—The grazing of livestock in the wilder-12
ness areas, if established before the date of enactment of 13
this Act, shall be permitted to continue, subject to any 14
reasonable regulations as the Secretary considers nec-15
essary in accordance with— 16
(1) section 4(d)(4) of the Wilderness Act (16 17
U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)); 18
(2) the guidelines set forth in Appendix A of 19
House Report 101–405, accompanying H.R. 2570 of 20
the 101st Congress for land under the jurisdiction of 21
the Secretary of the Interior; 22
(3) the guidelines set forth in House Report 23
96–617, accompanying H.R. 5487 of the 96th Con-24
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gress for land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 1
of Agriculture; and 2
(4) all other laws governing livestock grazing on 3
Federal public land. 4
(d) FISH AND WILDLIFE.— 5
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with section 6
4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 7
1133(d)(7)), nothing in this title affects the jurisdic-8
tion or responsibilities of the State with respect to 9
fish and wildlife on public land in the State. 10
(2) MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—In furtherance 11
of the purposes and principles of the Wilderness Act 12
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the Secretary may conduct 13
any management activities that are necessary to 14
maintain or restore fish and wildlife populations and 15
habitats in the wilderness areas, if the management 16
activities are— 17
(A) consistent with relevant wilderness 18
management plans; 19
(B) conducted in accordance with appro-20
priate policies, such as the policies established 21
in Appendix B of House Report 101–405; and 22
(C) in accordance with memoranda of un-23
derstanding between the Federal agencies and 24
the State Department of Fish and Wildlife. 25
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(e) BUFFER ZONES.— 1
(1) IN GENERAL.—Congress does not intend for 2
the designation of wilderness areas by this title to 3
lead to the creation of protective perimeters or buff-4
er zones around each wilderness area. 5
(2) ACTIVITIES OR USES UP TO BOUNDARIES.— 6
The fact that nonwilderness activities or uses can be 7
seen or heard from within a wilderness area shall 8
not, of itself, preclude the activities or uses up to the 9
boundary of the wilderness area. 10
(f) MILITARY ACTIVITIES.—Nothing in this title pre-11
cludes— 12
(1) low-level overflights of military aircraft over 13
the wilderness areas; 14
(2) the designation of new units of special air-15
space over the wilderness areas; or 16
(3) the use or establishment of military flight 17
training routes over wilderness areas. 18
(g) HORSES.—Nothing in this title precludes horse-19
back riding in, or the entry of recreational saddle or pack 20
stock into, a wilderness area— 21
(1) in accordance with section 4(d)(5) of the 22
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(5)); and 23
(2) subject to any terms and conditions deter-24
mined to be necessary by the Secretary. 25
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(h) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 1
the wilderness areas are withdrawn from— 2
(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-3
posal under the public land laws; 4
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 5
laws; and 6
(3) disposition under all laws pertaining to min-7
eral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 8
(i) INCORPORATION OF ACQUIRED LAND AND INTER-9
ESTS.—Any land within the boundary of a wilderness area 10
that is acquired by the United States shall— 11
(1) become part of the wilderness area in which 12
the land is located; and 13
(2) be managed in accordance with— 14
(A) this section; 15
(B) the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et 16
seq.); and 17
(C) any other applicable law. 18
(j) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION.—In ac-19
cordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) 20
and subject to terms and conditions as the Secretary may 21
prescribe, the Secretary may authorize the installation and 22
maintenance of hydrologic, meteorologic, or climatological 23
collection devices in the wilderness areas if the Secretary 24
determines that the facilities and access to the facilities 25
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are essential to flood warning, flood control, or water res-1
ervoir operation activities. 2
SEC. 206. DESIGNATION OF WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS. 3
(a) INDIAN CREEK, MONO CREEK, AND MATILIJA 4
CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—Section 3(a) of the Wild and Sce-5
nic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) (as amended by sec-6
tion 134) is amended by adding at the end the following: 7
‘‘(269) INDIAN CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—The fol-8
lowing segments of Indian Creek in the State of 9
California, to be administered by the Secretary of 10
Agriculture: 11
‘‘(A) The 9.5-mile segment of Indian Creek 12
from its source in sec. 19, T. 7 N., R. 26 W., 13
to the Dick Smith Wilderness boundary, as a 14
wild river. 15
‘‘(B) The 1-mile segment of Indian Creek 16
from the Dick Smith Wilderness boundary to 17
0.25 miles downstream of Road 6N24, as a sce-18
nic river. 19
‘‘(C) The 3.9-mile segment of Indian Creek 20
from 0.25 miles downstream of Road 6N24 to 21
the southern boundary of sec. 32, T. 6 N., R. 22
26 W., as a wild river. 23
‘‘(270) MONO CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—The fol-24
lowing segments of Mono Creek in the State of Cali-25
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fornia, to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-1
culture: 2
‘‘(A) The 4.2-mile segment of Mono Creek 3
from its source in sec. 1, T. 7 N., R. 26 W., 4
to 0.25 miles upstream of Don Victor Fire 5
Road in sec. 28, T. 7 N., R. 25 W., as a wild 6
river. 7
‘‘(B) The 2.1-mile segment of Mono Creek 8
from 0.25 miles upstream of the Don Victor 9
Fire Road in sec. 28, T. 7 N., R. 25 W., to 10
0.25 miles downstream of Don Victor Fire 11
Road in sec. 34, T. 7 N., R. 25 W., as a rec-12
reational river. 13
‘‘(C) The 14.7-mile segment of Mono 14
Creek from 0.25 miles downstream of Don Vic-15
tor Fire Road in sec. 34, T. 7 N., R. 25 W., 16
to the Ogilvy Ranch private property boundary 17
in sec. 22, T. 6 N., R. 26 W., as a wild river. 18
‘‘(D) The 3.5-mile segment of Mono Creek 19
from the Ogilvy Ranch private property bound-20
ary to the southern boundary of sec. 33, T. 6 21
N., R. 26 W., as a recreational river. 22
‘‘(271) MATILIJA CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—The 23
following segments of Matilija Creek in the State of 24
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California, to be administered by the Secretary of 1
Agriculture: 2
‘‘(A) The 7.2-mile segment of the Matilija 3
Creek from its source in sec. 25, T. 6 N., R. 4
25 W., to the private property boundary in sec. 5
9, T. 5 N., R. 24 W., as a wild river. 6
‘‘(B) The 7.25-mile segment of the Upper 7
North Fork Matilija Creek from its source in 8
sec. 36, T. 6 N., R. 24 W., to the Matilija Wil-9
derness boundary, as a wild river.’’. 10
(b) SESPE CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—Section 3(a) of the 11
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amend-12
ed by striking paragraph (142) and inserting the fol-13
lowing: 14
‘‘(142) SESPE CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—The fol-15
lowing segments of Sespe Creek in the State of Cali-16
fornia, to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-17
culture: 18
‘‘(A) The 2.7-mile segment of Sespe Creek 19
from the private property boundary in sec. 10, 20
T. 6 N., R. 24 W., to the Hartman Ranch pri-21
vate property boundary in sec. 14, T. 6 N., R. 22
24 W., as a wild river. 23
‘‘(B) The 15-mile segment of Sespe Creek 24
from the Hartman Ranch private property 25
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boundary in sec. 14, T. 6 N., R. 24 W., to the 1
western boundary of sec. 6, T. 5 N., R. 22 W., 2
as a recreational river. 3
‘‘(C) The 6.1-mile segment of Sespe Creek 4
from the western boundary of sec. 6, T. 5 N., 5
R. 22 W., to the confluence with Trout Creek, 6
as a scenic river. 7
‘‘(D) The 28.6-mile segment of Sespe 8
Creek from the confluence with Trout Creek to 9
the southern boundary of sec. 35, T. 5 N., R. 10
20 W., as a wild river.’’. 11
(c) SISQUOC RIVER, CALIFORNIA.—Section 3(a) of 12
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) is 13
amended by striking paragraph (143) and inserting the 14
following: 15
‘‘(143) SISQUOC RIVER, CALIFORNIA.—The fol-16
lowing segments of the Sisquoc River and its tribu-17
taries in the State of California, to be administered 18
by the Secretary of Agriculture: 19
‘‘(A) The 33-mile segment of the main 20
stem of the Sisquoc River extending from its 21
origin downstream to the Los Padres Forest 22
boundary, as a wild river. 23
‘‘(B) The 4.2-mile segment of the South 24
Fork Sisquoc River from its source northeast of 25
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San Rafael Mountain in sec. 2, T. 7 N., R. 28 1
W., to its confluence with the Sisquoc River, as 2
a wild river. 3
‘‘(C) The 10.4-mile segment of Manzana 4
Creek from its source west of San Rafael Peak 5
in sec. 4, T. 7 N., R. 28 W., to the San Rafael 6
Wilderness boundary upstream of Nira Camp-7
ground, as a wild river. 8
‘‘(D) The 0.6-mile segment of Manzana 9
Creek from the San Rafael Wilderness bound-10
ary upstream of the Nira Campground to the 11
San Rafael Wilderness boundary downstream of 12
the confluence of Davy Brown Creek, as a rec-13
reational river. 14
‘‘(E) The 5.8-mile segment of Manzana 15
Creek from the San Rafael Wilderness bound-16
ary downstream of the confluence of Davy 17
Brown Creek to the private property boundary 18
in sec. 1, T. 8 N., R. 30 W., as a wild river. 19
‘‘(F) The 3.8-mile segment of Manzana 20
Creek from the private property boundary in 21
sec. 1, T. 8 N., R. 30 W., to the confluence of 22
the Sisquoc River, as a recreational river. 23
‘‘(G) The 3.4-mile segment of Davy Brown 24
Creek from its source west of Ranger Peak in 25
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sec. 32, T. 8 N., R. 29 W., to 300 feet up-1
stream of its confluence with Munch Canyon, as 2
a wild river. 3
‘‘(H) The 1.4-mile segment of Davy Brown 4
Creek from 300 feet upstream of its confluence 5
with Munch Canyon to its confluence with 6
Manzana Creek, as a recreational river. 7
‘‘(I) The 2-mile segment of Munch Canyon 8
from its source north of Ranger Peak in sec. 9
33, T. 8 N., R. 29 W., to 300 feet upstream 10
of its confluence with Sunset Valley Creek, as 11
a wild river. 12
‘‘(J) The 0.5-mile segment of Munch Can-13
yon from 300 feet upstream of its confluence 14
with Sunset Valley Creek to its confluence with 15
Davy Brown Creek, as a recreational river. 16
‘‘(K) The 2.6-mile segment of Fish Creek 17
from 500 feet downstream of Sunset Valley 18
Road to its confluence with Manzana Creek, as 19
a wild river. 20
‘‘(L) The 1.5-mile segment of East Fork 21
Fish Creek from its source in sec. 26, T. 8 N., 22
R. 29 W., to its confluence with Fish Creek, as 23
a wild river.’’. 24
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(d) PIRU CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—Section 3(a) of the 1
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amend-2
ed by striking paragraph (199) and inserting the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(199) PIRU CREEK, CALIFORNIA.—The fol-5
lowing segments of Piru Creek in the State of Cali-6
fornia, to be administered by the Secretary of Agri-7
culture: 8
‘‘(A) The 9.1-mile segment of Piru Creek 9
from its source in sec. 3, T. 6 N., R. 22 W., 10
to the private property boundary in sec. 4, T. 11
6 N., R. 21 W., as a wild river. 12
‘‘(B) The 17.2-mile segment of Piru Creek 13
from the private property boundary in sec. 4, T. 14
6 N., R. 21 W., to 0.25 miles downstream of 15
the Gold Hill Road, as a scenic river. 16
‘‘(C) The 4.1-mile segment of Piru Creek 17
from 0.25 miles downstream of Gold Hill Road 18
to the confluence with Trail Canyon, as a wild 19
river. 20
‘‘(D) The 7.25-mile segment of Piru Creek 21
from the confluence with Trail Canyon to the 22
confluence with Buck Creek, as a scenic river. 23
‘‘(E) The 3-mile segment of Piru Creek 24
from 0.5 miles downstream of Pyramid Dam at 25
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the first bridge crossing to the boundary of the 1
Sespe Wilderness, as a recreational river. 2
‘‘(F) The 13-mile segment of Piru Creek 3
from the boundary of the Sespe Wilderness to 4
the boundary of the Sespe Wilderness, as a wild 5
river. 6
‘‘(G) The 2.2-mile segment of Piru Creek 7
from the boundary of the Sespe Wilderness to 8
the upper limit of Piru Reservoir, as a rec-9
reational river.’’. 10
(e) EFFECT.—The designation of additional miles of 11
Piru Creek under subsection (d) shall not affect valid 12
water rights in existence on the date of enactment of this 13
Act. 14
(f) MOTORIZED USE OF TRAILS.—Nothing in this 15
section (including the amendments made by this section) 16
affects the motorized use of trails designated by the Forest 17
Service for motorized use that are located adjacent to and 18
crossing upper Piru Creek, if the use is consistent with 19
the protection and enhancement of river values under the 20
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1271 et seq.). 21
SEC. 207. DESIGNATION OF THE FOX MOUNTAIN POTEN-22
TIAL WILDERNESS. 23
(a) DESIGNATION.—In furtherance of the purposes of 24
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), certain land 25
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in the Los Padres National Forest comprising approxi-1
mately 41,082 acres, as generally depicted on the map en-2
titled ‘‘Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area’’ and 3
dated November 14, 2019, is designated as the Fox Moun-4
tain Potential Wilderness Area. 5
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 6
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 7
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 8
Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description 9
of the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area (re-10
ferred to in this section as the ‘‘potential wilderness 11
area’’) with— 12
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 13
Resources of the Senate; and 14
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 15
of the House of Representatives. 16
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The map and legal de-17
scription filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 18
same force and effect as if included in this title, ex-19
cept that the Secretary of Agriculture may correct 20
any clerical and typographical errors in the map and 21
legal description. 22
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map and legal 23
description filed under paragraph (1) shall be on file 24
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and available for public inspection in the appropriate 1
offices of the Forest Service. 2
(c) MANAGEMENT.—Except as provided in subsection 3
(d) and subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall 4
manage the potential wilderness area in accordance with 5
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.). 6
(d) TRAIL USE CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, 7
AND REALIGNMENT.— 8
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with para-9
graph (2), the Secretary of Agriculture may— 10
(A) construct a new trail for use by hikers, 11
equestrians, and mechanized vehicles that con-12
nects the Aliso Park Campground to the Bull 13
Ridge Trail; and 14
(B) reconstruct or realign— 15
(i) the Bull Ridge Trail; and 16
(ii) the Rocky Ridge Trail. 17
(2) REQUIREMENT.—In carrying out the con-18
struction, reconstruction, or alignment under para-19
graph (1), the Secretary shall— 20
(A) comply with all existing laws (including 21
regulations); and 22
(B) to the maximum extent practicable, 23
use the minimum tool or administrative practice 24
necessary to accomplish the construction, recon-25
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struction, or alignment with the least amount of 1
adverse impact on wilderness character and re-2
sources. 3
(3) MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND MACHINERY.— 4
In accordance with paragraph (2), the Secretary 5
may use motorized vehicles and machinery to carry 6
out the trail construction, reconstruction, or realign-7
ment authorized by this subsection. 8
(4) MECHANIZED VEHICLES.—The Secretary 9
may permit the use of mechanized vehicles on the 10
existing Bull Ridge Trail and Rocky Ridge Trail in 11
accordance with existing law (including regulations) 12
and this subsection until such date as the potential 13
wilderness area is designated as wilderness in ac-14
cordance with subsection (h). 15
(e) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 16
the Federal land in the potential wilderness area is with-17
drawn from all forms of— 18
(1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 19
public land laws; 20
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 21
laws; and 22
(3) disposition under all laws pertaining to min-23
eral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 24
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(f) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—In carrying out 1
this section, the Secretary may enter into cooperative 2
agreements with State, Tribal, and local governmental en-3
tities and private entities to complete the trail construc-4
tion, reconstruction, and realignment authorized by sub-5
section (d). 6
(g) BOUNDARIES.—The Secretary shall modify the 7
boundary of the potential wilderness area to exclude any 8
area within 50 feet of the centerline of the new location 9
of any trail that has been constructed, reconstructed, or 10
realigned under subsection (d). 11
(h) WILDERNESS DESIGNATION.— 12
(1) IN GENERAL.—The potential wilderness 13
area, as modified under subsection (g), shall be des-14
ignated as wilderness and as a component of the Na-15
tional Wilderness Preservation System on the earlier 16
of— 17
(A) the date on which the Secretary pub-18
lishes in the Federal Register notice that the 19
trail construction, reconstruction, or alignment 20
authorized by subsection (d) has been com-21
pleted; or 22
(B) the date that is 20 years after the date 23
of enactment of this Act. 24
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(2) ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS.—On 1
designation as wilderness under this section, the po-2
tential wilderness area shall be— 3
(A) incorporated into the San Rafael Wil-4
derness, as designated by Public Law 90–271 5
(82 Stat. 51), the California Wilderness Act of 6
1984 (Public Law 98–425; 16 U.S.C. 1132 7
note), and the Los Padres Condor Range and 8
River Protection Act (Public Law 102–301; 106 9
Stat. 242), and section 203; and 10
(B) administered in accordance with sec-11
tion 205 and the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 12
1131 et seq.). 13
SEC. 208. DESIGNATION OF SCENIC AREAS. 14
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 15
there are established the following scenic areas: 16
(1) CONDOR RIDGE SCENIC AREA.—Certain 17
land in the Los Padres National Forest comprising 18
approximately 18,666 acres, as generally depicted on 19
the map entitled ‘‘Condor Ridge Scenic Area—Pro-20
posed’’ and dated March 29, 2019, which shall be 21
known as the ‘‘Condor Ridge Scenic Area’’. 22
(2) BLACK MOUNTAIN SCENIC AREA.—Certain 23
land in the Los Padres National Forest and the Ba-24
kersfield Field Office of the Bureau of Land Man-25
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agement comprising approximately 16,216 acres, as 1
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Black Moun-2
tain Scenic Area—Proposed’’ and dated March 29, 3
2019, which shall be known as the ‘‘Black Mountain 4
Scenic Area’’. 5
(b) MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.— 6
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 7
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 8
Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of 9
the Condor Ridge Scenic Area and Black Mountain 10
Scenic Area with— 11
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 12
Resources of the Senate; and 13
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 14
of the House of Representatives. 15
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The maps and legal de-16
scriptions filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 17
same force and effect as if included in this title, ex-18
cept that the Secretary of Agriculture may correct 19
any clerical and typographical errors in the maps 20
and legal descriptions. 21
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The maps and 22
legal descriptions filed under paragraph (1) shall be 23
on file and available for public inspection in the ap-24
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propriate offices of the Forest Service and Bureau 1
of Land Management. 2
(c) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the scenic areas is to 3
conserve, protect, and enhance for the benefit and enjoy-4
ment of present and future generations the ecological, sce-5
nic, wildlife, recreational, cultural, historical, natural, edu-6
cational, and scientific resources of the scenic areas. 7
(d) MANAGEMENT.— 8
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall admin-9
ister the scenic areas— 10
(A) in a manner that conserves, protects, 11
and enhances the resources of the scenic areas, 12
and in particular the scenic character attributes 13
of the scenic areas; and 14
(B) in accordance with— 15
(i) this section; 16
(ii) the Federal Land Policy and Man-17
agement Act (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) for 18
land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 19
of the Interior; 20
(iii) any laws (including regulations) 21
relating to the National Forest System, for 22
land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 23
of Agriculture; and 24
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(iv) any other applicable law (includ-1
ing regulations). 2
(2) USES.—The Secretary shall only allow those 3
uses of the scenic areas that the Secretary deter-4
mines would further the purposes described in sub-5
section (c). 6
(e) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 7
the Federal land in the scenic areas is withdrawn from 8
all forms of— 9
(1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 10
public land laws; 11
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 12
laws; and 13
(3) disposition under all laws pertaining to min-14
eral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 15
(f) PROHIBITED USES.—The following shall be pro-16
hibited on the Federal land within the scenic areas: 17
(1) Permanent roads. 18
(2) Permanent structures. 19
(3) Timber harvesting except when necessary 20
for the purposes described in subsection (g). 21
(4) Transmission lines. 22
(5) Except as necessary to meet the minimum 23
requirements for the administration of the scenic 24
areas and to protect public health and safety— 25
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(A) the use of motorized vehicles; or 1
(B) the establishment of temporary roads. 2
(6) Commercial enterprises, except as necessary 3
for realizing the purposes of the scenic areas. 4
(g) WILDFIRE, INSECT, AND DISEASE MANAGE-5
MENT.—Consistent with this section, the Secretary may 6
take any measures in the scenic areas that the Secretary 7
determines to be necessary to control fire, insects, and dis-8
eases, including, as the Secretary determines to be appro-9
priate, the coordination of those activities with the State 10
or a local agency. 11
(h) ADJACENT MANAGEMENT.—The fact that an oth-12
erwise authorized activity or use can be seen or heard 13
within a scenic area shall not preclude the activity or use 14
outside the boundary of the scenic area. 15
SEC. 209. CONDOR NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL. 16
(a) IN GENERAL.—The contiguous trail established 17
pursuant to this section shall be known as the ‘‘Condor 18
National Scenic Trail’’ named after the California condor, 19
a critically endangered bird species that lives along the 20
extent of the trail corridor. 21
(b) PURPOSE.—The purposes of the Condor National 22
Scenic Trail are to— 23
(1) provide a continual extended hiking corridor 24
that connects the southern and northern portions of 25
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the Los Padres National Forest, spanning the entire 1
length of the forest along the coastal mountains of 2
southern and central California; and 3
(2) provide for the public enjoyment of the na-4
tionally significant scenic, historic, natural, and cul-5
tural qualities of the Los Padres National Forest. 6
(c) AMENDMENT.—Section 5(a) of the National 7
Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by 8
adding at the end the following: 9
‘‘(31) CONDOR NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL.— 10
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Condor National 11
Scenic Trail, a trail extending approximately 12
400 miles from Lake Piru in the southern por-13
tion of the Los Padres National Forest to the 14
Bottchers Gap Campground in northern portion 15
of the Los Padres National Forest. 16
‘‘(B) ADMINISTRATION.—The trail shall be 17
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, in 18
consultation with— 19
‘‘(i) other Federal, State, Tribal, re-20
gional, and local agencies; 21
‘‘(ii) private landowners; and 22
‘‘(iii) other interested organizations. 23
‘‘(C) RECREATIONAL USES.—Notwith-24
standing section 7(c), the use of motorized vehi-25
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cles on roads or trails included in the Condor 1
National Scenic Trail on which motorized vehi-2
cles are permitted as of the date of enactment 3
of this paragraph may be permitted. 4
‘‘(D) PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS.— 5
‘‘(i) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary 6
shall not acquire for the trail any land or 7
interest in land outside the exterior bound-8
ary of any federally managed area without 9
the consent of the owner of land or interest 10
in land. 11
‘‘(ii) EFFECT.—Nothing in this para-12
graph— 13
‘‘(I) requires any private prop-14
erty owner to allow public access (in-15
cluding Federal, State, or local gov-16
ernment access) to private property; 17
or 18
‘‘(II) modifies any provision of 19
Federal, State, or local law with re-20
spect to public access to or use of pri-21
vate land. 22
‘‘(E) REALIGNMENT.—The Secretary of 23
Agriculture may realign segments of the Condor 24
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National Scenic Trail as necessary to fulfill the 1
purposes of the trail. 2
‘‘(F) MAP.—A map generally depicting the 3
trail described in subparagraph (A) shall be on 4
file and available for public inspection in the 5
appropriate offices of the Forest Service.’’. 6
(d) STUDY.— 7
(1) STUDY REQUIRED.—Not later than 3 years 8
after the date of enactment of this Act, in accord-9
ance with this section, the Secretary of Agriculture 10
shall conduct a study that— 11
(A) addresses the feasibility of, and alter-12
natives for, connecting the northern and south-13
ern portions of the Los Padres National Forest 14
by establishing a trail across the applicable por-15
tions of the northern and southern Santa Lucia 16
Mountains of the southern California Coastal 17
Range; and 18
(B) considers realignment of the trail or 19
construction of new trail segments to avoid ex-20
isting trail segments that currently allow motor-21
ized vehicles. 22
(2) CONTENTS.—In carrying out the study re-23
quired by paragraph (1), the Secretary of Agri-24
culture shall— 25
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(A) conform to the requirements for na-1
tional scenic trail studies described in section 2
5(b) of the National Trails System Act (16 3
U.S.C. 1244(b)); 4
(B) provide for a continual hiking route 5
through and connecting the southern and 6
northern sections of the Los Padres National 7
Forest; 8
(C) promote recreational, scenic, wilder-9
ness and cultural values; 10
(D) enhance connectivity with the overall 11
National Forest trail system; 12
(E) consider new connectors and realign-13
ment of existing trails; 14
(F) emphasize safe and continuous public 15
access, dispersal from high-use areas, and suit-16
able water sources; and 17
(G) to the extent practicable, provide all- 18
year use. 19
(3) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—In com-20
pleting the study required by paragraph (1), the 21
Secretary of Agriculture shall consult with— 22
(A) appropriate Federal, State, Tribal, re-23
gional, and local agencies; 24
(B) private landowners; 25
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(C) nongovernmental organizations; and 1
(D) members of the public. 2
(4) SUBMISSION.—The Secretary of Agriculture 3
shall submit the study required by paragraph (1) 4
to— 5
(A) the Committee on Natural Resources 6
of the House of Representatives; and 7
(B) the Committee on Energy and Natural 8
Resources of the Senate. 9
(5) ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE 10
CONDOR NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL.— 11
(A) IN GENERAL.—Upon completion of the 12
study required by paragraph (1), if the Sec-13
retary of Agriculture determines that additional 14
or alternative trail segments are feasible for in-15
clusion in the Condor National Scenic Trail, the 16
Secretary of Agriculture shall include those seg-17
ments in the Condor National Scenic Trail. 18
(B) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Additions or alter-19
nations to the Condor National Scenic Trail 20
shall be effective on the date the Secretary of 21
Agriculture publishes in the Federal Register 22
notice that the additional or alternative seg-23
ments are included in the Condor National Sce-24
nic Trail. 25
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(e) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—In carrying out 1
this section (including the amendments made by this sec-2
tion), the Secretary of Agriculture may enter into coopera-3
tive agreements with State, Tribal, and local government 4
entities and private entities to complete needed trail con-5
struction, reconstruction, and realignment projects au-6
thorized by this section (including the amendments made 7
by this section). 8
SEC. 210. FOREST SERVICE STUDY. 9
Not later than 6 years after the date of enactment 10
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture (acting through 11
the Chief of the Forest Service) shall study the feasibility 12
of opening a new trail, for vehicles measuring 50 inches 13
or less, connecting Forest Service Highway 95 to the exist-14
ing off-highway vehicle trail system in the Ballinger Can-15
yon off-highway vehicle area. 16
SEC. 211. NONMOTORIZED RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES. 17
Not later than 6 years after the date of enactment 18
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation 19
with interested parties, shall conduct a study to improve 20
nonmotorized recreation trail opportunities (including 21
mountain bicycling) on land not designated as wilderness 22
within the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos ranger dis-23
tricts. 24
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SEC. 212. USE BY MEMBERS OF TRIBES. 1
(a) ACCESS.—The Secretary shall ensure that Tribes 2
have access, in accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 3
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), to the wilderness areas, scenic areas, 4
and potential wilderness areas designated by this title for 5
traditional cultural and religious purposes. 6
(b) TEMPORARY CLOSURES.— 7
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out this section, 8
the Secretary, on request of a Tribe, may tempo-9
rarily close to the general public one or more specific 10
portions of a wilderness area, scenic area, or poten-11
tial wilderness area designated by this title to pro-12
tect the privacy of the members of the Tribe in the 13
conduct of traditional cultural and religious activi-14
ties. 15
(2) REQUIREMENT.—Any closure under para-16
graph (1) shall be— 17
(A) made in such a manner as to affect 18
the smallest practicable area for the minimum 19
period of time necessary for the activity to be 20
carried out; and 21
(B) be consistent with the purpose and in-22
tent of Public Law 95–341 (commonly known 23
as the American Indian Religious Freedom Act) 24
(42 U.S.C. 1996) and the Wilderness Act (16 25
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.). 26
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TITLE III—SAN GABRIEL MOUN-1
TAINS FOOTHILLS AND RIV-2
ERS PROTECTION 3
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 4
This title may be cited as the ‘‘San Gabriel Moun-5
tains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act’’. 6
SEC. 302. DEFINITION OF STATE. 7
In this title, the term ‘‘State’’ means the State of 8
California. 9
Subtitle A—San Gabriel National 10
Recreation Area 11
SEC. 311. PURPOSES. 12
The purposes of this subtitle are— 13
(1) to conserve, protect, and enhance for the 14
benefit and enjoyment of present and future genera-15
tions the ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, cul-16
tural, historical, natural, educational, and scientific 17
resources of the Recreation Area; 18
(2) to provide environmentally responsible, well- 19
managed recreational opportunities within the 20
Recreation Area; 21
(3) to improve access to and from the Recre-22
ation Area; 23
(4) to provide expanded educational and inter-24
pretive services to increase public understanding of, 25
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and appreciation for, the natural and cultural re-1
sources of the Recreation Area; 2
(5) to facilitate the cooperative management of 3
the land and resources within the Recreation Area, 4
in collaboration with the State and political subdivi-5
sions of the State, historical, business, cultural, 6
civic, recreational, tourism and other nongovern-7
mental organizations, and the public; and 8
(6) to allow the continued use of the Recreation 9
Area by all individuals, entities, and local govern-10
ment agencies in activities relating to integrated 11
water management, flood protection, water conserva-12
tion, water quality, water rights, water supply, 13
groundwater recharge and monitoring, wastewater 14
treatment, public roads and bridges, and utilities 15
within or adjacent to the Recreation Area. 16
SEC. 312. DEFINITIONS. 17
In this subtitle: 18
(1) ADJUDICATION.—The term ‘‘adjudication’’ 19
means any final judgment, order, ruling, or decree 20
entered in any judicial proceeding adjudicating or af-21
fecting water rights, surface water management, or 22
groundwater management. 23
(2) ADVISORY COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘Advisory 24
Council’’ means the San Gabriel National Recreation 25
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Area Public Advisory Council established under sec-1
tion 317(a). 2
(3) FEDERAL LANDS.—The term ‘‘Federal 3
lands’’ means— 4
(A) public lands under the jurisdiction of 5
the Secretary of the Interior; and 6
(B) lands under the jurisdiction of the Sec-7
retary of Defense, acting through the Chief of 8
Engineers. 9
(4) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term ‘‘manage-10
ment plan’’ means the management plan for the 11
Recreation Area required under section 314(d). 12
(5) PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘Partnership’’ 13
means the San Gabriel National Recreation Area 14
Partnership established by section 318(a). 15
(6) PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘public 16
water system’’ has the meaning given the term in 42 17
U.S.C. 300(f)(4) or in section 116275 of the Cali-18
fornia Health and Safety Code. 19
(7) RECREATION AREA.—The term ‘‘Recreation 20
Area’’ means the San Gabriel National Recreation 21
Area established by section 313(a). 22
(8) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 23
the Secretary of the Interior. 24
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(9) UTILITY FACILITY.—The term ‘‘utility facil-1
ity’’ means— 2
(A) any electric substations, communica-3
tion facilities, towers, poles, and lines, ground 4
wires, communication circuits, and other struc-5
tures, and related infrastructure; and 6
(B) any such facilities associated with a 7
public water system. 8
(10) WATER RESOURCE FACILITY.—The term 9
‘‘water resource facility’’ means irrigation and 10
pumping facilities, dams and reservoirs, flood control 11
facilities, water conservation works, including debris 12
protection facilities, sediment placement sites, rain 13
gauges and stream gauges, water quality facilities, 14
recycled water facilities, water pumping, conveyance 15
and distribution systems, water storage tanks and 16
reservoirs, and water treatment facilities, aqueducts, 17
canals, ditches, pipelines, wells, hydropower projects, 18
and transmission and other ancillary facilities, 19
groundwater recharge facilities, water conservation, 20
water filtration plants, and other water diversion, 21
conservation, groundwater recharge, storage, and 22
carriage structures. 23
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SEC. 313. SAN GABRIEL NATIONAL RECREATION AREA. 1
(a) ESTABLISHMENT; BOUNDARIES.—Subject to 2
valid existing rights, there is established as a unit of the 3
National Park System in the State the San Gabriel Na-4
tional Recreation Area depicted as the ‘‘Proposed San Ga-5
briel National Recreation Area’’ on the map entitled ‘‘San 6
Gabriel National Recreation Area Proposed Boundary,’’ 7
numbered 503/152,737, and dated July 2019. 8
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 9
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 10
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 11
shall file a map and a legal description of the Recre-12
ation Area with— 13
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 14
Resources of the Senate; and 15
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 16
of the House of Representatives. 17
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The map and legal de-18
scription filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 19
same force and effect as if included in this title, ex-20
cept that the Secretary may correct any clerical or 21
typographical error in the map or legal description. 22
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map and legal 23
description filed under paragraph (1) shall be on file 24
and available for public inspection in the appropriate 25
offices of the National Park Service. 26
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(c) ADMINISTRATION AND JURISDICTION.— 1
(1) PUBLIC LANDS.—The public lands included 2
in the Recreation Area shall be administered by the 3
Secretary, acting through the Director of the Na-4
tional Park Service. 5
(2) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE LAND.—Al-6
though certain Federal lands under the jurisdiction 7
of the Secretary of Defense are included in the 8
recreation area, nothing in this subtitle transfers ad-9
ministration jurisdiction of such Federal lands from 10
the Secretary of Defense or otherwise affects Fed-11
eral lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of 12
Defense. 13
(3) STATE AND LOCAL JURISDICTION.—Noth-14
ing in this subtitle alters, modifies, or diminishes 15
any right, responsibility, power, authority, jurisdic-16
tion, or entitlement of the State, a political subdivi-17
sion of the State, including, but not limited to courts 18
of competent jurisdiction, regulatory commissions, 19
boards, and departments, or any State or local agen-20
cy under any applicable Federal, State, or local law 21
(including regulations). 22
SEC. 314. MANAGEMENT. 23
(a) NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.—Subject to valid ex-24
isting rights, the Secretary shall manage the public lands 25
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included in the Recreation Area in a manner that protects 1
and enhances the natural resources and values of the pub-2
lic lands, in accordance with— 3
(1) this subtitle; 4
(2) section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sec-5
tions 100751(a), 100752, 100753 and 102101 of 6
title 54, United States Code (formerly known as the 7
‘‘National Park Service Organic Act’’); 8
(3) the laws generally applicable to units of the 9
National Park System; and 10
(4) other applicable law, regulations, adjudica-11
tions, and orders. 12
(b) COOPERATION WITH SECRETARY OF DE-13
FENSE.—The Secretary shall cooperate with the Secretary 14
of Defense to develop opportunities for the management 15
of the Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary 16
of Defense included in the Recreation Area in accordance 17
with the purposes described in section 311, to the max-18
imum extent practicable. 19
(c) TREATMENT OF NON-FEDERAL LAND.— 20
(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this subtitle— 21
(A) authorizes the Secretary to take any 22
action that would affect the use of any land not 23
owned by the United States within the Recre-24
ation Area; 25
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(B) affects the use of, or access to, any 1
non-Federal land within the Recreation Area; 2
(C) modifies any provision of Federal, 3
State, or local law with respect to public access 4
to, or use of, non-Federal land; 5
(D) requires any owner of non-Federal 6
land to allow public access (including Federal, 7
State, or local government access) to private 8
property or any other non-Federal land; 9
(E) alters any duly adopted land use regu-10
lation, approved land use plan, or any other 11
regulatory authority of any State or local agen-12
cy or unit of Tribal government; 13
(F) creates any liability, or affects any li-14
ability under any other law, of any private 15
property owner or other owner of non-Federal 16
land with respect to any person injured on the 17
private property or other non-Federal land; 18
(G) conveys to the Partnership any land 19
use or other regulatory authority; 20
(H) shall be construed to cause any Fed-21
eral, State, or local regulation or permit re-22
quirement intended to apply to units of the Na-23
tional Park System to affect the Federal lands 24
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of De-25
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fense or non-Federal lands within the bound-1
aries of the recreation area; or 2
(I) requires any local government to par-3
ticipate in any program administered by the 4
Secretary. 5
(2) COOPERATION.—The Secretary is encour-6
aged to work with owners of non-Federal land who 7
have agreed to cooperate with the Secretary to ad-8
vance the purposes of this subtitle. 9
(3) BUFFER ZONES.— 10
(A) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this subtitle 11
establishes any protective perimeter or buffer 12
zone around the Recreation Area. 13
(B) ACTIVITIES OR USES UP TO BOUND-14
ARIES.—The fact that an activity or use of land 15
can be seen or heard from within the Recre-16
ation Area shall not preclude the activity or 17
land use up to the boundary of the Recreation 18
Area. 19
(4) FACILITIES.—Nothing in this subtitle af-20
fects the operation, maintenance, modification, con-21
struction, destruction, removal, relocation, improve-22
ment or expansion of any water resource facility or 23
public water system, or any solid waste, sanitary 24
sewer, water or waste-water treatment, groundwater 25
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recharge or conservation, hydroelectric, conveyance 1
distribution system, recycled water facility, or utility 2
facility located within or adjacent to the Recreation 3
Area. 4
(5) EXEMPTION.—Section 100903 of title 54, 5
United States Code, shall not apply to the Puente 6
Hills landfill, materials recovery facility, or inter-7
modal facility. 8
(d) MANAGEMENT PLAN.— 9
(1) DEADLINE.—Not later than 3 years after 10
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 11
and the Advisory Council shall establish a com-12
prehensive management plan for the Recreation 13
Area that supports the purposes described in section 14
311. 15
(2) USE OF EXISTING PLANS.—In developing 16
the management plan, to the extent consistent with 17
this section, the Secretary may incorporate any pro-18
vision of a land use or other plan applicable to the 19
public lands included in the Recreation Area. 20
(3) INCORPORATION OF VISITOR SERVICES 21
PLAN.—To the maximum extent practicable, the 22
Secretary shall incorporate into the management 23
plan the visitor services plan under section 24
319(a)(2). 25
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(4) PARTNERSHIP.—In developing the manage-1
ment plan, the Secretary shall consider recommenda-2
tions of the Partnership. To the maximum extent 3
practicable, the Secretary shall incorporate rec-4
ommendations of the Partnership into the manage-5
ment plan if the Secretary determines that the rec-6
ommendations are feasible and consistent with the 7
purposes in section 311, this subtitle, and applicable 8
laws (including regulations). 9
(e) FISH AND WILDLIFE.—Nothing in this subtitle 10
affects the jurisdiction of the State with respect to fish 11
or wildlife located on public lands in the State. 12
SEC. 315. ACQUISITION OF NON-FEDERAL LAND WITHIN 13
RECREATION AREA. 14
(a) LIMITED ACQUISITION AUTHORITY.— 15
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 16
the Secretary may acquire non-Federal land within 17
the boundaries of the Recreation Area only through 18
exchange, donation, or purchase from a willing sell-19
er. 20
(2) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—As a further 21
condition on the acquisition of land, the Secretary 22
shall make a determination that the land contains 23
important biological, cultural, historic, or rec-24
reational values. 25
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(b) PROHIBITION ON USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.— 1
Nothing in this subtitle authorizes the use of eminent do-2
main to acquire land or an interest in land. 3
(c) TREATMENT OF ACQUIRED LAND.—Any land or 4
interest in land acquired by the United States within the 5
boundaries of the Recreation Area shall be— 6
(1) included in the Recreation Area; and 7
(2) administered by the Secretary in accordance 8
with— 9
(A) this subtitle; and 10
(B) other applicable laws (including regu-11
lations). 12
SEC. 316. WATER RIGHTS; WATER RESOURCE FACILITIES; 13
PUBLIC ROADS; UTILITY FACILITIES. 14
(a) NO EFFECT ON WATER RIGHTS.—Nothing in 15
this subtitle or section 322— 16
(1) shall affect the use or allocation, as in exist-17
ence on the date of the enactment of this Act, of any 18
water, water right, or interest in water (including 19
potable, recycled, reclaimed, waste, imported, ex-20
ported, banked, or stored water, surface water, 21
groundwater, and public trust interest); 22
(2) shall affect any public or private contract in 23
existence on the date of the enactment of this Act 24
for the sale, lease, loan, or transfer of any water (in-25
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cluding potable, recycled, reclaimed, waste, imported, 1
exported, banked, or stored water, surface water, 2
and groundwater); 3
(3) shall be considered to be a relinquishment 4
or reduction of any water rights reserved or appro-5
priated by the United States in the State on or be-6
fore the date of the enactment of this Act; 7
(4) authorizes or imposes any new reserved 8
Federal water right or expands water usage pursu-9
ant to any existing Federal reserved, riparian or ap-10
propriative right; 11
(5) shall be considered a relinquishment or re-12
duction of any water rights (including potable, recy-13
cled, reclaimed, waste, imported, exported, banked, 14
or stored water, surface water, and groundwater) 15
held, reserved, or appropriated by any public entity 16
or other persons or entities, on or before the date of 17
the enactment of this Act; 18
(6) shall be construed to, or shall interfere or 19
conflict with the exercise of the powers or duties of 20
any watermaster, public agency, public water sys-21
tem, court of competent jurisdiction, or other body 22
or entity responsible for groundwater or surface 23
water management or groundwater replenishment as 24
designated or established pursuant to any adjudica-25
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tion or Federal or State law, including the manage-1
ment of the San Gabriel River watershed and basin, 2
to provide water supply or other environmental bene-3
fits; 4
(7) shall be construed to impede or adversely 5
impact any previously adopted Los Angeles County 6
Drainage Area project, as described in the report of 7
the Chief of Engineers dated June 30, 1992, includ-8
ing any supplement or addendum to that report, or 9
any maintenance agreement to operate that project; 10
(8) shall interfere or conflict with any action by 11
a watermaster, water agency, public water system, 12
court of competent jurisdiction, or public agency 13
pursuant to any Federal or State law, water right, 14
or adjudication, including any action relating to 15
water conservation, water quality, surface water di-16
version or impoundment, groundwater recharge, 17
water treatment, conservation or storage of water, 18
pollution, waste discharge, the pumping of ground-19
water; the spreading, injection, pumping, storage, or 20
the use of water from local sources, storm water 21
flows, and runoff, or from imported or recycled 22
water, that is undertaken in connection with the 23
management or regulation of the San Gabriel River; 24
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(9) shall interfere with, obstruct, hinder, or 1
delay the exercise of, or access to, any water right 2
by the owner of a public water system or any other 3
individual or entity, including the construction, oper-4
ation, maintenance, replacement, removal, repair, lo-5
cation, or relocation of any well; pipeline; or water 6
pumping, treatment, diversion, impoundment, or 7
storage facility; or other facility or property nec-8
essary or useful to access any water right or operate 9
an public water system; 10
(10) shall require the initiation or reinitiation 11
of consultation with the United States Fish and 12
Wildlife Service under, or the application of any pro-13
vision of, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 14
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) relating to any action affecting 15
any water, water right, or water management or 16
water resource facility in the San Gabriel River wa-17
tershed and basin; or 18
(11) authorizes any agency or employee of the 19
United States, or any other person, to take any ac-20
tion inconsistent with any of paragraphs (1) through 21
(10). 22
(b) WATER RESOURCE FACILITIES.— 23
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(1) NO EFFECT ON EXISTING WATER RE-1
SOURCE FACILITIES.—Nothing in this subtitle or 2
section 322 shall affect— 3
(A) the use, operation, maintenance, re-4
pair, construction, destruction, removal, recon-5
figuration, expansion, improvement or replace-6
ment of a water resource facility or public 7
water system within or adjacent to the Recre-8
ation Area or San Gabriel Mountains National 9
Monument; or 10
(B) access to a water resource facility 11
within or adjacent to the Recreation Area or 12
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. 13
(2) NO EFFECT ON NEW WATER RESOURCE FA-14
CILITIES.—Nothing in this subtitle or section 322 15
shall preclude the establishment of a new water re-16
source facility (including instream sites, routes, and 17
areas) within the Recreation Area or San Gabriel 18
Mountains National Monument if the water resource 19
facility or public water system is necessary to pre-20
serve or enhance the health, safety, reliability, qual-21
ity or accessibility of water supply, or utility services 22
to residents of Los Angeles County. 23
(3) FLOOD CONTROL.—Nothing in this subtitle 24
or section 322 shall be construed to— 25
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(A) impose any new restriction or require-1
ment on flood protection, water conservation, 2
water supply, groundwater recharge, water 3
transfers, or water quality operations and main-4
tenance; or 5
(B) increase the liability of an agency or 6
public water system carrying out flood protec-7
tion, water conservation, water supply, ground-8
water recharge, water transfers, or water qual-9
ity operations. 10
(4) DIVERSION OR USE OF WATER.—Nothing in 11
this subtitle or section 322 shall authorize or require 12
the use of water or water rights in, or the diversion 13
of water to, the Recreation Area or San Gabriel 14
Mountains National Monument. 15
(c) UTILITY FACILITIES AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY.— 16
Nothing in this subtitle or section 322 shall— 17
(1) affect the use, operation, maintenance, re-18
pair, construction, destruction, reconfiguration, ex-19
pansion, inspection, renewal, reconstruction, alter-20
ation, addition, relocation, improvement, removal, or 21
replacement of a utility facility or appurtenant right- 22
of-way within or adjacent to the Recreation Area or 23
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument; 24
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(2) affect access to a utility facility or right-of- 1
way within or adjacent to the Recreation Area or 2
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument; or 3
(3) preclude the establishment of a new utility 4
facility or right-of-way (including instream sites, 5
routes, and areas) within the Recreation Area or 6
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument if such 7
a facility or right-of-way is necessary for public 8
health and safety, electricity supply, or other utility 9
services. 10
(d) ROADS; PUBLIC TRANSIT.— 11
(1) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 12
(A) PUBLIC ROAD.—The term ‘‘public 13
road’’ means any paved road or bridge (includ-14
ing any appurtenant structure and right-of- 15
way) that is— 16
(i) operated or maintained by a non- 17
Federal entity; and 18
(ii)(I) open to vehicular use by the 19
public; or 20
(II) used by a public agency or utility 21
for the operation, maintenance, improve-22
ment, repair, removal, relocation, construc-23
tion, destruction or rehabilitation of infra-24
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structure, a utility facility, or a right-of- 1
way. 2
(B) PUBLIC TRANSIT.—The term ‘‘public 3
transit’’ means any transit service (including 4
operations and rights-of-way) that is— 5
(i) operated or maintained by a non- 6
Federal entity; and 7
(ii)(I) open to the public; or 8
(II) used by a public agency or con-9
tractor for the operation, maintenance, re-10
pair, construction, or rehabilitation of in-11
frastructure, a utility facility, or a right-of- 12
way. 13
(2) NO EFFECT ON PUBLIC ROADS OR PUBLIC 14
TRANSIT.—Nothing in this subtitle or section 322— 15
(A) authorizes the Secretary to take any 16
action that would affect the operation, mainte-17
nance, repair, or rehabilitation of public roads 18
or public transit (including activities necessary 19
to comply with Federal or State safety or public 20
transit standards); or 21
(B) creates any new liability, or increases 22
any existing liability, of an owner or operator of 23
a public road. 24
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SEC. 317. SAN GABRIEL NATIONAL RECREATION AREA PUB-1
LIC ADVISORY COUNCIL. 2
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 3
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 4
establish an advisory council, to be known as the ‘‘San 5
Gabriel National Recreation Area Public Advisory Coun-6
cil’’. 7
(b) DUTIES.—The Advisory Council shall advise the 8
Secretary regarding the development and implementation 9
of the management plan and the visitor services plan. 10
(c) APPLICABLE LAW.—The Advisory Council shall 11
be subject to— 12
(1) the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 13
U.S.C. App.); and 14
(2) all other applicable laws (including regula-15
tions). 16
(d) MEMBERSHIP.—The Advisory Council shall con-17
sist of 22 members, to be appointed by the Secretary after 18
taking into consideration recommendations of the Partner-19
ship, of whom— 20
(1) 2 shall represent local, regional, or national 21
environmental organizations; 22
(2) 2 shall represent the interests of outdoor 23
recreation, including off-highway vehicle recreation, 24
within the Recreation Area; 25
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(3) 2 shall represent the interests of commu-1
nity-based organizations, the missions of which in-2
clude expanding access to the outdoors; 3
(4) 2 shall represent business interests; 4
(5) 1 shall represent Indian Tribes within or 5
adjacent to the Recreation Area; 6
(6) 1 shall represent the interests of home-7
owners’ associations within the Recreation Area; 8
(7) 3 shall represent the interests of holders of 9
adjudicated water rights, public water systems, 10
water agencies, wastewater and sewer agencies, recy-11
cled water facilities, and water management and re-12
plenishment entities; 13
(8) 1 shall represent energy and mineral devel-14
opment interests; 15
(9) 1 shall represent owners of Federal grazing 16
permits or other land use permits within the Recre-17
ation Area; 18
(10) 1 shall represent archaeological and histor-19
ical interests; 20
(11) 1 shall represent the interests of environ-21
mental educators; 22
(12) 1 shall represent cultural history interests; 23
(13) 1 shall represent environmental justice in-24
terests; 25
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(14) 1 shall represent electrical utility interests; 1
and 2
(15) 2 shall represent the affected public at 3
large. 4
(e) TERMS.— 5
(1) STAGGERED TERMS.—A member of the Ad-6
visory Council shall be appointed for a term of 3 7
years, except that, of the members first appointed, 8
7 of the members shall be appointed for a term of 9
1 year and 7 of the members shall be appointed for 10
a term of 2 years. 11
(2) REAPPOINTMENT.—A member may be re-12
appointed to serve on the Advisory Council on the 13
expiration of the term of service of the member. 14
(3) VACANCY.—A vacancy on the Advisory 15
Council shall be filled in the same manner in which 16
the original appointment was made. 17
(f) QUORUM.—A quorum shall be ten members of the 18
advisory council. The operations of the advisory council 19
shall not be impaired by the fact that a member has not 20
yet been appointed as long as a quorum has been attained. 21
(g) CHAIRPERSON; PROCEDURES.—The Advisory 22
Council shall elect a chairperson and establish such rules 23
and procedures as the advisory council considers necessary 24
or desirable. 25
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(h) SERVICE WITHOUT COMPENSATION.—Members 1
of the Advisory Council shall serve without pay. 2
(i) TERMINATION.—The Advisory Council shall cease 3
to exist— 4
(1) on the date that is 5 years after the date 5
on which the management plan is adopted by the 6
Secretary; or 7
(2) on such later date as the Secretary con-8
siders to be appropriate. 9
SEC. 318. SAN GABRIEL NATIONAL RECREATION AREA 10
PARTNERSHIP. 11
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a Part-12
nership, to be known as the ‘‘San Gabriel National Recre-13
ation Area Partnership’’. 14
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the Partnership are 15
to— 16
(1) coordinate the activities of Federal, State, 17
Tribal, and local authorities and the private sector 18
in advancing the purposes of this subtitle; and 19
(2) use the resources and expertise of each 20
agency in improving management and recreational 21
opportunities within the Recreation Area. 22
(c) MEMBERSHIP.—The Partnership shall include the 23
following: 24
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(1) The Secretary (or a designee) to represent 1
the National Park Service. 2
(2) The Secretary of Defense (or a designee) to 3
represent the Corps of Engineers. 4
(3) The Secretary of Agriculture (or a designee) 5
to represent the Forest Service. 6
(4) The Secretary of the Natural Resources 7
Agency of the State (or a designee) to represent— 8
(A) the California Department of Parks 9
and Recreation; and 10
(B) the Rivers and Mountains Conser-11
vancy. 12
(5) One designee of the Los Angeles County 13
Board of Supervisors. 14
(6) One designee of the Puente Hills Habitat 15
Preservation Authority. 16
(7) Four designees of the San Gabriel Council 17
of Governments, of whom 1 shall be selected from a 18
local land conservancy. 19
(8) One designee of the San Gabriel Valley Eco-20
nomic Partnership. 21
(9) One designee of the Los Angeles County 22
Flood Control District. 23
(10) One designee of the San Gabriel Valley 24
Water Association. 25
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(11) One designee of the Central Basin Water 1
Association. 2
(12) One designee of the Main San Gabriel 3
Basin Watermaster. 4
(13) One designee of a public utility company, 5
to be appointed by the Secretary. 6
(14) One designee of the Watershed Conserva-7
tion Authority. 8
(15) One designee of the Advisory Council for 9
the period during which the Advisory Council re-10
mains in effect. 11
(16) One designee of San Gabriel Mountains 12
National Monument Community Collaborative. 13
(d) DUTIES.—To advance the purposes described in 14
section 311, the Partnership shall— 15
(1) make recommendations to the Secretary re-16
garding the development and implementation of the 17
management plan; 18
(2) review and comment on the visitor services 19
plan under section 319(a)(2), and facilitate the im-20
plementation of that plan; 21
(3) assist units of local government, regional 22
planning organizations, and nonprofit organizations 23
in advancing the purposes of the Recreation Area 24
by— 25
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(A) carrying out programs and projects 1
that recognize, protect, and enhance important 2
resource values within the Recreation Area; 3
(B) establishing and maintaining interpre-4
tive exhibits and programs within the Recre-5
ation Area; 6
(C) developing recreational and educational 7
opportunities in the Recreation Area in accord-8
ance with the purposes of this subtitle; 9
(D) increasing public awareness of, and 10
appreciation for, natural, historic, scenic, and 11
cultural resources of the Recreation Area; 12
(E) ensuring that signs identifying points 13
of public access and sites of interest are posted 14
throughout the Recreation Area; 15
(F) promoting a wide range of partner-16
ships among governments, organizations, and 17
individuals to advance the purposes of the 18
Recreation Area; and 19
(G) ensuring that management of the 20
Recreation Area takes into consideration— 21
(i) local ordinances and land-use 22
plans; and 23
(ii) adjacent residents and property 24
owners; 25
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(4) make recommendations to the Secretary re-1
garding the appointment of members to the Advisory 2
Council; and 3
(5) carry out any other actions necessary to 4
achieve the purposes of this subtitle. 5
(e) AUTHORITIES.—Subject to approval by the Sec-6
retary, for the purposes of preparing and implementing 7
the management plan, the Partnership may use Federal 8
funds made available under this section— 9
(1) to make grants to the State, political sub-10
divisions of the State, nonprofit organizations, and 11
other persons; 12
(2) to enter into cooperative agreements with, 13
or provide grants or technical assistance to, the 14
State, political subdivisions of the State, nonprofit 15
organizations, Federal agencies, and other interested 16
parties; 17
(3) to hire and compensate staff; 18
(4) to obtain funds or services from any source, 19
including funds and services provided under any 20
other Federal law or program; 21
(5) to contract for goods or services; and 22
(6) to support activities of partners and any 23
other activities that— 24
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(A) advance the purposes of the Recreation 1
Area; and 2
(B) are in accordance with the manage-3
ment plan. 4
(f) TERMS OF OFFICE; REAPPOINTMENT; VACAN-5
CIES.— 6
(1) TERMS.—A member of the Partnership 7
shall be appointed for a term of 3 years. 8
(2) REAPPOINTMENT.—A member may be re-9
appointed to serve on the Partnership on the expira-10
tion of the term of service of the member. 11
(3) VACANCY.—A vacancy on the Partnership 12
shall be filled in the same manner in which the origi-13
nal appointment was made. 14
(g) QUORUM.—A quorum shall be eleven members of 15
the Partnership. The operations of the Partnership shall 16
not be impaired by the fact that a member has not yet 17
been appointed as long as a quorum has been attained. 18
(h) CHAIRPERSON; PROCEDURES.—The Partnership 19
shall elect a chairperson and establish such rules and pro-20
cedures as it deems necessary or desirable. 21
(i) SERVICE WITHOUT COMPENSATION.—A member 22
of the Partnership shall serve without compensation. 23
(j) DUTIES AND AUTHORITIES OF SECRETARY.— 24
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall convene 1
the Partnership on a regular basis to carry out this 2
subtitle. 3
(2) TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.— 4
The Secretary may provide to the Partnership or 5
any member of the Partnership, on a reimbursable 6
or nonreimbursable basis, such technical and finan-7
cial assistance as the Secretary determines to be ap-8
propriate to carry out this subtitle. 9
(3) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Sec-10
retary may enter into a cooperative agreement with 11
the Partnership, a member of the Partnership, or 12
any other public or private entity to provide tech-13
nical, financial, or other assistance to carry out this 14
subtitle. 15
(4) CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES ON NON- 16
FEDERAL LAND.— 17
(A) IN GENERAL.—In order to facilitate 18
the administration of the Recreation Area, the 19
Secretary is authorized, subject to valid existing 20
rights, to construct administrative or visitor use 21
facilities on land owned by a nonprofit organi-22
zation, local agency, or other public entity in 23
accordance with this title and applicable law 24
(including regulations). 25
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(B) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.—A fa-1
cility under this paragraph may only be devel-2
oped— 3
(i) with the consent of the owner of 4
the non-Federal land; and 5
(ii) in accordance with applicable Fed-6
eral, State, and local laws (including regu-7
lations) and plans. 8
(5) PRIORITY.—The Secretary shall give pri-9
ority to actions that— 10
(A) conserve the significant natural, his-11
toric, cultural, and scenic resources of the 12
Recreation Area; and 13
(B) provide educational, interpretive, and 14
recreational opportunities consistent with the 15
purposes of the Recreation Area. 16
(k) COMMITTEES.—The Partnership shall establish— 17
(1) a Water Technical Advisory Committee to 18
advise the Secretary regarding water-related issues 19
relating to the Recreation Area; and 20
(2) a Public Safety Advisory Committee to ad-21
vise the Secretary regarding public safety issues re-22
lating to the Recreation Area. 23
SEC. 319. VISITOR SERVICES AND FACILITIES. 24
(a) VISITOR SERVICES.— 25
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(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this subsection 1
is to facilitate the development of an integrated vis-2
itor services plan to improve visitor experiences in 3
the Recreation Area through expanded recreational 4
opportunities and increased interpretation, edu-5
cation, resource protection, and enforcement. 6
(2) VISITOR SERVICES PLAN.— 7
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years 8
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 9
Secretary shall develop and carry out an inte-10
grated visitor services plan for the Recreation 11
Area in accordance with this paragraph. 12
(B) CONTENTS.—The visitor services plan 13
shall— 14
(i) assess current and anticipated fu-15
ture visitation to the Recreation Area, in-16
cluding recreation destinations; 17
(ii) consider the demand for various 18
types of recreation (including hiking, pic-19
nicking, horseback riding, and the use of 20
motorized and mechanized vehicles), as 21
permissible and appropriate; 22
(iii) evaluate the impacts of recreation 23
on natural and cultural resources, water 24
rights and water resource facilities, public 25
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roads, adjacent residents and property 1
owners, and utilities within the Recreation 2
Area, as well as the effectiveness of cur-3
rent enforcement and efforts; 4
(iv) assess the current level of inter-5
pretive and educational services and facili-6
ties; 7
(v) include recommendations to— 8
(I) expand opportunities for high- 9
demand recreational activities, in ac-10
cordance with the purposes described 11
in section 311; 12
(II) better manage Recreation 13
Area resources and improve the expe-14
rience of Recreation Area visitors 15
through expanded interpretive and 16
educational services and facilities, and 17
improved enforcement; and 18
(III) better manage Recreation 19
Area resources to reduce negative im-20
pacts on the environment, ecology, 21
and integrated water management ac-22
tivities in the Recreation Area; 23
(vi) in coordination and consultation 24
with affected owners of non-Federal land, 25
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assess options to incorporate recreational 1
opportunities on non-Federal land into the 2
Recreation Area— 3
(I) in manner consistent with the 4
purposes and uses of the non-Federal 5
land; and 6
(II) with the consent of the non- 7
Federal landowner; 8
(vii) assess opportunities to provide 9
recreational opportunities that connect 10
with adjacent National Forest System 11
land; and 12
(viii) be developed and carried out in 13
accordance with applicable Federal, State, 14
and local laws and ordinances. 15
(C) CONSULTATION.—In developing the 16
visitor services plan, the Secretary shall— 17
(i) consult with— 18
(I) the Partnership; 19
(II) the Advisory Council; 20
(III) appropriate State and local 21
agencies; and 22
(IV) interested nongovernmental 23
organizations; and 24
(ii) involve members of the public. 25
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(b) VISITOR USE FACILITIES.— 1
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may con-2
struct visitor use facilities in the Recreation Area. 3
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Each facility under para-4
graph (1) shall be developed in accordance with ap-5
plicable Federal, State, and local— 6
(A) laws (including regulations); and 7
(B) plans. 8
(c) DONATIONS.— 9
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may accept 10
and use donated funds, property, in-kind contribu-11
tions, and services to carry out this subtitle. 12
(2) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary may not use 13
the authority provided by paragraph (1) to accept 14
non-Federal land that has been acquired after the 15
date of the enactment of this Act through the use 16
of eminent domain. 17
(d) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—In carrying out 18
this subtitle, the Secretary may make grants to, or enter 19
into cooperative agreements with, units of State, Tribal, 20
and local governments and private entities to conduct re-21
search, develop scientific analyses, and carry out any other 22
initiative relating to the management of, and visitation to, 23
the Recreation Area. 24
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Subtitle B—San Gabriel Mountains 1
SEC. 321. DEFINITIONS. 2
In this subtitle: 3
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 4
the Secretary of Agriculture. 5
(2) WILDERNESS AREA OR ADDITION.—The 6
term ‘‘wilderness area or addition’’ means any wil-7
derness area or wilderness addition designated by 8
section 323(a). 9
SEC. 322. NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY MODIFICA-10
TION. 11
(a) IN GENERAL.—The San Gabriel Mountains Na-12
tional Monument established by Presidential Proclamation 13
9194 (54 U.S.C. 320301 note) (referred to in this section 14
as the ‘‘Monument’’) is modified to include the approxi-15
mately 109,167 acres of additional National Forest Sys-16
tem land depicted as the ‘‘Proposed San Gabriel Moun-17
tains National Monument Expansion’’ on the map entitled 18
‘‘Proposed San Gabriel Mountains National Monument 19
Expansion’’ and dated June 26, 2019. 20
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall admin-21
ister the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, in-22
cluding the lands added by subsection (a), in accordance 23
with— 24
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(1) Presidential Proclamation 9194, as issued 1
on October 10, 2014 (54 U.S.C. 320301 note); 2
(2) the laws generally applicable to the Monu-3
ment; and 4
(3) this title. 5
(c) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—Within 3 years after the 6
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall consult 7
with State and local governments and the interested public 8
to update the existing San Gabriel Mountains National 9
Monument Plan to provide management direction and pro-10
tection for the lands added to the Monument by subsection 11
(a). 12
SEC. 323. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS AND ADDI-13
TIONS. 14
(a) DESIGNATION.—In accordance with the Wilder-15
ness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following parcels 16
of National Forest System land in the State are des-17
ignated as wilderness and as components of the National 18
Wilderness Preservation System: 19
(1) CONDOR PEAK WILDERNESS.—Certain Fed-20
eral land in the Angeles National Forest, comprising 21
approximately 8,207 acres, as generally depicted on 22
the map entitled ‘‘Condor Peak Wilderness—Pro-23
posed’’ and dated June 6, 2019, which shall be 24
known as the ‘‘Condor Peak Wilderness’’. 25
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(2) SAN GABRIEL WILDERNESS ADDITIONS.— 1
Certain Federal land in the Angeles National Forest, 2
comprising approximately 2,032 acres, as generally 3
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘San Gabriel Wilder-4
ness Additions’’ and dated June 6, 2019, which is 5
incorporated in, and considered to be a part of, the 6
San Gabriel Wilderness designated by Public Law 7
90–318 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 82 Stat. 131). 8
(3) SHEEP MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS ADDI-9
TIONS.—Certain Federal land in the Angeles Na-10
tional Forest, comprising approximately 13,726 11
acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled 12
‘‘Sheep Mountain Wilderness Additions’’ and dated 13
June 6, 2019, which is incorporated in, and consid-14
ered to be a part of, the Sheep Mountain Wilderness 15
designated by section 101(a)(29) of the California 16
Wilderness Act of 1984 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 98 17
Stat. 1623; Public Law 98–425). 18
(4) YERBA BUENA WILDERNESS.—Certain Fed-19
eral land in the Angeles National Forest, comprising 20
approximately 6,694 acres, as generally depicted on 21
the map entitled ‘‘Yerba Buena Wilderness—Pro-22
posed’’ and dated June 6, 2019, which shall be 23
known as the ‘‘Yerba Buena Wilderness’’. 24
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 1
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 2
shall file a map and a legal description of the wilder-3
ness areas and additions with— 4
(A) the Committee on Energy and Natural 5
Resources of the Senate; and 6
(B) the Committee on Natural Resources 7
of the House of Representatives. 8
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The map and legal de-9
scription filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 10
same force and effect as if included in this subtitle, 11
except that the Secretary may correct any clerical or 12
typographical error in the map or legal description. 13
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map and legal 14
description filed under paragraph (1) shall be on file 15
and available for public inspection in the appropriate 16
offices of the Forest Service. 17
SEC. 324. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS AND 18
ADDITIONS. 19
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 20
the wilderness areas and additions shall be administered 21
by the Secretary in accordance with this section and the 22
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), except that any 23
reference in that Act to the effective date of that Act shall 24
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be considered to be a reference to the date of the enact-1
ment of this Act. 2
(b) FIRE MANAGEMENT AND RELATED ACTIVI-3
TIES.— 4
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may take 5
such measures in a wilderness area or addition des-6
ignated in section 323 as are necessary for the con-7
trol of fire, insects, or diseases in accordance with— 8
(A) section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act 9
(16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)); and 10
(B) House Report 98–40 of the 98th Con-11
gress. 12
(2) FUNDING PRIORITIES.—Nothing in this 13
subtitle limits funding for fire or fuels management 14
in a wilderness area or addition. 15
(3) REVISION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL 16
FIRE MANAGEMENT PLANS.—As soon as practicable 17
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-18
retary shall amend, as applicable, any local fire man-19
agement plan that applies to a wilderness area or 20
addition designated in section 323. 21
(4) ADMINISTRATION.—In accordance with 22
paragraph (1) and any other applicable Federal law, 23
to ensure a timely and efficient response to a fire 24
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emergency in a wilderness area or addition, the Sec-1
retary shall— 2
(A) not later than 1 year after the date of 3
the enactment of this Act, establish agency ap-4
proval procedures (including appropriate delega-5
tions of authority to the Forest Supervisor, Dis-6
trict Manager, or other agency officials) for re-7
sponding to fire emergencies; and 8
(B) enter into agreements with appropriate 9
State or local firefighting agencies. 10
(c) GRAZING.—The grazing of livestock in a wilder-11
ness area or addition, if established before the date of the 12
enactment of this Act, shall be administered in accordance 13
with— 14
(1) section 4(d)(4) of the Wilderness Act (16 15
U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)); and 16
(2) the guidelines contained in Appendix A of 17
the report of the Committee on Interior and Insular 18
Affairs of the House of Representatives accom-19
panying H.R. 2570 of the 101st Congress (H. Rept. 20
101–405). 21
(d) FISH AND WILDLIFE.— 22
(1) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with section 23
4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 24
1133(d)(7)), nothing in this subtitle affects the ju-25
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risdiction or responsibility of the State with respect 1
to fish or wildlife on public land in the State. 2
(2) MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.— 3
(A) IN GENERAL.—In furtherance of the 4
purposes and principles of the Wilderness Act 5
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the Secretary may 6
conduct any management activity that are nec-7
essary to maintain or restore fish or wildlife 8
populations or habitats in the wilderness areas 9
and wilderness additions designated in section 10
323, if the management activities are— 11
(i) consistent with relevant wilderness 12
management plans; and 13
(ii) conducted in accordance with ap-14
propriate policies, such as the policies es-15
tablished in Appendix B of the report of 16
the Committee on Interior and Insular Af-17
fairs of the House of Representatives ac-18
companying H.R. 2570 of the 101st Con-19
gress (H. Rept. 101–405). 20
(B) INCLUSIONS.—A management activity 21
under subparagraph (A) may include the occa-22
sional and temporary use of motorized vehicles, 23
if the use, as determined by the Secretary, 24
would promote healthy, viable, and more natu-25
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rally distributed wildlife populations that would 1
enhance wilderness values while causing the 2
minimum impact necessary to accomplish those 3
tasks. 4
(C) EXISTING ACTIVITIES.—In accordance 5
with section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 6
U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)) and appropriate policies 7
(such as the policies established in Appendix B 8
of House Report 101–405), the State may use 9
aircraft (including helicopters) in a wilderness 10
area or addition to survey, capture, transplant, 11
monitor, or provide water for a wildlife popu-12
lation, including bighorn sheep. 13
(e) BUFFER ZONES.— 14
(1) IN GENERAL.—Congress does not intend for 15
the designation of wilderness areas or wilderness ad-16
ditions by section 323 to lead to the creation of pro-17
tective perimeters or buffer zones around each wil-18
derness area or wilderness addition. 19
(2) ACTIVITIES OR USES UP TO BOUNDARIES.— 20
The fact that a nonwilderness activities or uses can 21
be seen or heard from within a wilderness area or 22
wilderness addition designated by section 323 shall 23
not, of itself, preclude the activities or uses up to the 24
boundary of the wilderness area or addition. 25
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(f) MILITARY ACTIVITIES.—Nothing in this title pre-1
cludes— 2
(1) low-level overflights of military aircraft over 3
the wilderness areas or wilderness additions des-4
ignated by section 323; 5
(2) the designation of new units of special air-6
space over the wilderness areas or wilderness addi-7
tions designated by section 323; or 8
(3) the use or establishment of military flight 9
training routes over wilderness areas or wilderness 10
additions designated by section 323. 11
(g) HORSES.—Nothing in this subtitle precludes 12
horseback riding in, or the entry of recreational or com-13
mercial saddle or pack stock into, an area designated as 14
a wilderness area or wilderness addition by section 323— 15
(1) in accordance with section 4(d)(5) of the 16
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(5)); and 17
(2) subject to such terms and conditions as the 18
Secretary determines to be necessary. 19
(h) LAW ENFORCEMENT.—Nothing in this subtitle 20
precludes any law enforcement or drug interdiction effort 21
within the wilderness areas or wilderness additions des-22
ignated by section 323 in accordance with the Wilderness 23
Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.). 24
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(i) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 1
the wilderness areas and additions designated by section 2
323 are withdrawn from— 3
(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and dis-4
posal under the public land laws; 5
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 6
laws; and 7
(3) operation of the mineral materials and geo-8
thermal leasing laws. 9
(j) INCORPORATION OF ACQUIRED LAND AND INTER-10
ESTS.—Any land within the boundary of a wilderness area 11
or addition that is acquired by the United States shall— 12
(1) become part of the wilderness area or addi-13
tion in which the land is located; and 14
(2) be managed in accordance with this section, 15
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), and 16
any other applicable laws (including regulations). 17
(k) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION.—In ac-18
cordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) 19
and subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary 20
may prescribe, the Secretary may authorize the installa-21
tion and maintenance of hydrologic, meteorologic, or cli-22
matological collection devices in a wilderness area or addi-23
tion if the Secretary determines that the facilities and ac-24
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cess to the facilities is essential to a flood warning, flood 1
control, or water reservoir operation activity. 2
(l) AUTHORIZED EVENTS.—The Secretary of Agri-3
culture may authorize the Angeles Crest 100 competitive 4
running event to continue in substantially the same man-5
ner and degree in which this event was operated and per-6
mitted in 2015 within additions to the Sheep Mountain 7
Wilderness in section 323 of this title and the Pleasant 8
View Ridge Wilderness Area designated by section 1802 9
of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, 10
provided that the event is authorized and conducted in a 11
manner compatible with the preservation of the areas as 12
wilderness. 13
SEC. 325. DESIGNATION OF WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS. 14
(a) DESIGNATION.—Section 3(a) of the Wild and 15
Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) (as amended by 16
section 206(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-17
lowing: 18
‘‘(272) EAST FORK SAN GABRIEL RIVER, CALI-19
FORNIA.—The following segments of the East Fork 20
San Gabriel River, to be administered by the Sec-21
retary of Agriculture in the following classes: 22
‘‘(A) The 10-mile segment from the con-23
fluence of the Prairie Fork and Vincent Gulch 24
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to 100 yards upstream of the Heaton Flats 1
trailhead and day use area, as a wild river. 2
‘‘(B) The 2.7-mile segment from 100 yards 3
upstream of the Heaton Flats trailhead and day 4
use area to 100 yards upstream of the con-5
fluence with Williams Canyon, as a recreational 6
river. 7
‘‘(273) NORTH FORK SAN GABRIEL RIVER, 8
CALIFORNIA.—The 4.3-mile segment of the North 9
Fork San Gabriel River from the confluence with 10
Cloudburst Canyon to 0.25 miles upstream of the 11
confluence with the West Fork San Gabriel River, to 12
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as 13
a recreational river. 14
‘‘(274) WEST FORK SAN GABRIEL RIVER, CALI-15
FORNIA.—The following segments of the West Fork 16
San Gabriel River, to be administered by the Sec-17
retary of Agriculture in the following classes: 18
‘‘(A) The 6.7-mile segment from 0.25 19
miles downstream of its source near Red Box 20
Gap in sec. 14, T. 2 N., R. 12 W., to the con-21
fluence with the unnamed tributary 0.25 miles 22
downstream of the power lines in sec. 22, T. 2 23
N., R. 11 W., as a recreational river. 24
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‘‘(B) The 1.6-mile segment of the West 1
Fork from 0.25 miles downstream of the 2
powerlines in sec. 22, T. 2 N., R. 11 W., to the 3
confluence with Bobcat Canyon, as a wild river. 4
‘‘(275) LITTLE ROCK CREEK, CALIFORNIA.— 5
The following segments of Little Rock Creek and 6
tributaries, to be administered by the Secretary of 7
Agriculture in the following classes: 8
‘‘(A) The 10.3-mile segment from its 9
source on Mt. Williamson in sec. 6, T. 3 N., R. 10
9 W., to 100 yards upstream of the confluence 11
with the South Fork Little Rock Creek, as a 12
wild river. 13
‘‘(B) The 6.6-mile segment from 100 yards 14
upstream of the confluence with the South Fork 15
Little Rock Creek to the confluence with 16
Santiago Canyon, as a recreational river. 17
‘‘(C) The 1-mile segment of Cooper Can-18
yon Creek from 0.25 miles downstream of 19
Highway 2 to 100 yards downstream of Cooper 20
Canyon Campground, as a scenic river. 21
‘‘(D) The 1.3-mile segment of Cooper Can-22
yon Creek from 100 yards downstream of Coo-23
per Canyon Campground to the confluence with 24
Little Rock Creek, as a wild river. 25
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‘‘(E) The 1-mile segment of Buckhorn 1
Creek from 100 yards downstream of the 2
Buckhorn Campground to its confluence with 3
Cooper Canyon Creek, as a wild river.’’. 4
(b) WATER RESOURCE FACILITIES; AND WATER 5
USE.— 6
(1) WATER RESOURCE FACILITIES.— 7
(A) DEFINITION.—In this section, the 8
term ‘‘water resource facility’’ means irrigation 9
and pumping facilities, dams and reservoirs, 10
flood control facilities, water conservation works 11
and facilities, including debris protection facili-12
ties, sediment placement sites, rain gauges and 13
stream gauges, water quality facilities, recycled 14
water facilities and water pumping, conveyance 15
distribution systems, water storage tanks and 16
reservoirs, and water treatment facilities, aque-17
ducts, canals, ditches, pipelines, wells, hydro-18
power projects, and transmission and other an-19
cillary facilities, groundwater recharge facilities, 20
water conservation, water filtration plants, and 21
other water diversion, conservation, ground-22
water recharge, storage, and carriage struc-23
tures. 24
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(B) NO EFFECT ON EXISTING WATER RE-1
SOURCE FACILITIES.—Nothing in this section 2
shall alter, modify, or affect— 3
(i) the use, operation, maintenance, 4
repair, construction, destruction, reconfig-5
uration, expansion, relocation or replace-6
ment of a water resource facility down-7
stream of a wild and scenic river segment 8
designated by this section, provided that 9
the physical structures of such facilities or 10
reservoirs shall not be located within the 11
river areas designated in this section; or 12
(ii) access to a water resource facility 13
downstream of a wild and scenic river seg-14
ment designated by this section. 15
(C) NO EFFECT ON NEW WATER RE-16
SOURCE FACILITIES.—Nothing in this section 17
shall preclude the establishment of a new water 18
resource facilities (including instream sites, 19
routes, and areas) downstream of a wild and 20
scenic river segment. 21
(2) LIMITATION.—Any new reservation of water 22
or new use of water pursuant to existing water 23
rights held by the United States to advance the pur-24
poses of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 25
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1271 et seq.) shall be for nonconsumptive instream 1
use only within the segments designated by this sec-2
tion. 3
(3) EXISTING LAW.—Nothing in this section af-4
fects the implementation of the Endangered Species 5
Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 6
SEC. 326. WATER RIGHTS. 7
(a) STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 8
title, and no action to implement this title— 9
(1) shall constitute an express or implied res-10
ervation of any water or water right, or authorizing 11
an expansion of water use pursuant to existing water 12
rights held by the United States, with respect to the 13
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, the 14
land designated as a wilderness area or wilderness 15
addition by section 323 or land adjacent to the wild 16
and scenic river segments designated by the amend-17
ment made by section 325; 18
(2) shall affect, alter, modify, or condition any 19
water rights in the State in existence on the date of 20
the enactment of this Act, including any water 21
rights held by the United States; 22
(3) shall be construed as establishing a prece-23
dent with regard to any future wilderness or wild 24
and scenic river designations; 25
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(4) shall affect, alter, or modify the interpreta-1
tion of, or any designation, decision, adjudication or 2
action made pursuant to, any other Act; or 3
(5) shall be construed as limiting, altering, 4
modifying, or amending any of the interstate com-5
pacts or equitable apportionment decrees that appor-6
tions water among or between the State and any 7
other State. 8
(b) STATE WATER LAW.—The Secretary shall com-9
ply with applicable procedural and substantive require-10
ments of the law of the State in order to obtain and hold 11
any water rights not in existence on the date of the enact-12
ment of this Act with respect to the San Gabriel Moun-13
tains National Monument, wilderness areas and wilderness 14
additions designated by section 323, and the wild and sce-15
nic rivers designated by amendment made by section 325. 16
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