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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 924 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 924

     To designate certain lands in the State of North Carolina as 
                  wilderness, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 17, 1993

Mr. Ballenger introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
         to the Committees on Natural Resources and Agriculture

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                                 A BILL

 
     To designate certain lands in the State of North Carolina as 
                  wilderness, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Western North Carolina Wilderness 
Protection Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION AND ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Designation.--In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1131-1136), the following lands in the State of North 
Carolina are hereby designated as wilderness and therefore as 
components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
            (1) Certain lands in the Pisgah National Forest, which 
        comprise approximately 5,710 acres as generally depicted on a 
        map entitled ``Lost Cove Wilderness--Proposed'' dated July 
        1990, which shall be known as the Lost Cove Wilderness.
            (2) Certain lands in the Pisgah National Forest, which 
        comprise approximately 7,140 acres as generally depicted on a 
        map entitled ``Harper Creek Wilderness--Proposed'' dated July 
        1990, which shall be known as the Harper Creek Wilderness.
    (b) Administration.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
wilderness areas designated under this section shall be administered by 
the Secretary of Agriculture (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 
``Secretary'') in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act 
governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness, except that any 
reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness 
Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of enactment of this 
Act.
    (c) Map and Description.--As soon as practicable after enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary shall file a map and a legal description of 
each wilderness area designated under this section with the Committee 
on Natural Resources and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
Representatives and with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
of the Senate. Each such map and description shall have the same force 
and effect as if included in this Act, except that correction of 
clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may 
be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the 
Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture.

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