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(g) HUNTING.—Hunting shall be allowed within the Conserva-
tion Area in accordance with applicable laws and regulations of
the United States and the State of Arizona, except that the Sec-
retary, after consultation with the Arizona State wildlife manage-
ment agency, may issue regulations designating zones where and
establishing periods when no hunting shall be permitted for reasons
of public safety, administration, or public use and enjoyment.
(h) PREVENTATIVE MEASURES.—Nothing in this Act shall pre-
clude such measures as the Secretary determines necessary to
prevent devastating fire or infestation of insects or disease within
the Conservation Area.
(i) NO BUFFER ZONES.—The establishment of the Conservation
Area shall not lead to the creation of protective perimeters or
buffer zones around the Conservation Area. The fact that there
may be activities or uses on lands outside the Conservation Area
that would not be permitted in the Conservation Area shall not
preclude such activities or uses on such lands up to the boundary
of the Conservation Area consistent with other applicable laws.
( j) WITHDRAWALS.—Subject to valid existing rights all Federal
lands within the Conservation Area and all lands and interest
therein which are hereafter acquired by the United States are
hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal
under the public land laws and from location, entry, and patent
under the mining laws, and from operation of the mineral leasing
and geothermal leasing laws and all amendments thereto.
SEC. 6. MANAGEMENT PLAN.
(a) PLAN REQUIRED.—Not later than 2 years after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, through the Bureau
of Land Management, shall develop and begin to implement a
comprehensive management plan for the long-term management
of the public lands within the Conservation Area in order to fulfill
the purposes for which it is established, as set forth in section
4(a). Consistent with the provisions of this Act, the management
plan shall be developed—
(1) in consultation with appropriate departments of the
State of Arizona, including wildlife and land management agen-
cies, with full public participation;
(2) from the draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem Management
Plan/EIS, dated October 2000, as it applies to Federal lands
or lands with conservation easements; and
(3) in accordance with the resource goals and objectives
developed through the Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership
process as incorporated in the draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem
Management Plan/EIS, dated October 2000, giving full consid-
eration to the management alternative preferred by the Sonoita
Valley Planning Partnership, as it applies to Federal lands
or lands with conservation easements.
(b) CONTENTS.—The management plan shall include—
(1) provisions designed to ensure the protection of the
resources and values described in section 4(a);
(2) an implementation plan for a continuing program of
interpretation and public education about the resources and
values of the Conservation Area;
(3) a proposal for minimal administrative and public facili-
ties to be developed or improved at a level compatible with
achieving the resource objectives for the Conservation Area