103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 631
AN ACT
To designate certain lands in the State of Colorado as com-
ponents of the National Wilderness Preservation System,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993’’.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—(1) As used in this Act with ref-
erence to lands in the National Forest System, the term
‘‘the Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(2) As used in this Act with respect to lands not in
the National Forest System, the term ‘‘the Secretary’’
means the Secretary of the Interior.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO THE WILDERNESS PRESERVATION
SYSTEM.
(a) ADDITIONS.—The following lands in the State of
Colorado are hereby designated as wilderness and, there-
fore, as components of the National Wilderness Preserva-
tion System:
(1) Certain lands in the Gunnison Resource
Area administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which comprise approximately 3,390 acres, as
generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘American
Flats Additions to the Big Blue Wilderness Proposal
(American Flats)’’, dated January, 1993, and which
are hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to
be a part of the wilderness area designated by sec-
tion 102(a)(1) of Public Law 96–560 and renamed
Uncompahgre Wilderness by section 3(f) of this Act.
(2) Certain lands in the Gunnison Resource
Area administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment which comprise approximately 815 acres, as
generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Bill Hare
Gulch and Larson Creek Additions to the Big Blue
Wilderness’’, dated January, 1993, and which are
hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to be a
part of the wilderness area designated by section
102(a)(1) of Public Law 96–560 and renamed
Uncompahgre Wilderness by section 3(f) of this Act.
(3) Certain lands in the Pike and San Isabel
National Forests which comprise approximately
43,410 acres, as generally depicted on a map enti-
tled ‘‘Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Proposal’’, dated
January, 1993, and which shall be known as the
Buffalo Peaks Wilderness.
(4) Certain lands in the Gunnison National
Forest and in the Powderhorn Primitive Area ad-
ministered by the Bureau of Land Management
which comprise approximately 60,100 acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Powderhorn Wil-
derness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993, and which
shall be known as the Powderhorn Wilderness.
(5) Certain lands in the Routt National Forest
which comprise approximately 20,750 acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Davis Peak Addi-
tions to Mount Zirkel Wilderness Proposal’’, dated
January, 1993, and which are hereby incorporated
in and shall be deemed to be a part of the Mount
Zirkel Wilderness designated by Public Law 88–555,
as amended by Public Law 96–560.
(6) Certain lands in the Gunnison National
Forests which comprise approximately 33,060 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Fossil
Ridge Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993,
and which shall be known as the Fossil Ridge Wil-
derness.
(7) Certain lands in the San Isabel National
Forest which comprise approximately 22,040 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Greenhorn
Mountain Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January,
1993, and which shall be known as the Greenhorn
Mountain Wilderness.
(8) Certain lands within the Pike National For-
est which comprise approximately 14,700 acres, as
generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Lost Creek
Wilderness Addition Proposal’’, dated January,
1993, which are hereby incorporated in and shall be
deemed to be a part of the Lost Creek Wilderness
designated by Public Law 96–560: Provided, That
the Secretary is authorized to acquire, only by dona-
tion or exchange, various mineral reservations held
by the State of Colorado within the boundaries of
the Lost Creek Wilderness additions designated by
this Act.
(9) Certain lands in the Gunnison National
Forests which comprise approximately 5,500 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘O-Be-Joy-
ful Addition to the Raggeds Wilderness Proposal’’,
dated January, 1993, and which are hereby incor-
porated in and shall be deemed to be a part of the
Raggeds Wilderness designated by Public Law 96–
560.
(10) Certain lands in the Rio Grande and San
Isabel National Forests and lands in the San Luis
Resource Area administered by the Bureau of Land
Management which comprise approximately 226,455
acres, as generally depicted on four maps entitled
‘‘Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Proposal (North Sec-
tion)’’, ‘‘Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Proposal
(North Middle Section)’’, ‘‘Sangre de Cristo Wilder-
ness Proposal (South Middle Section)’’, and ‘‘Sangre
de Cristo Wilderness Proposal (South Section)’’, all
dated January, 1993, and which shall be known as
the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness.
(11) Certain lands in the Routt National Forest
which comprise approximately 47,140 acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Service Creek
Wilderness Proposal (Sarvis Creek Wilderness)’’,
dated January, 1993, and which shall be known as
the Sarvis Creek Wilderness.
(12) Certain lands in the San Juan National
Forest which comprise approximately 31,100 acres,
as generally depicted on two maps, one entitled
‘‘South San Juan Wilderness Expansion Proposal,
Montezuma Peak’’ and the other entitled ‘‘South
San Juan Wilderness Expansion Proposal, V-Rock
Trail’’, both dated January, 1993, and which are
hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to be a
part of the South San Juan Wilderness designated
by Public Law 96–560.
(13) Certain lands in the White River National
Forest which comprise approximately 8,330 acres, as
generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Spruce Creek
Addition to the Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness Pro-
posal’’, dated January, 1993, and which are hereby
incorporated in and shall be deemed to be part of
the Hunter Fryingpan Wilderness designated by
Public Law 95–327: Provided, That no right, or
claim of right, to the diversion and use of waters by
the Fryingpan–Arkansas Project shall be prejudiced,
expanded, diminished, altered, or affected by this
Act, nor shall anything in this Act be construed to
expand, abate, impair, impede, limit, interfere with,
or prevent the construction, operation, use, mainte-
nance, or repair of the project facilities and diver-
sion systems to their full extent.
(14) Certain lands in the Arapaho National
Forest which comprise approximately 8,095 acres, as
generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Byers Peak
Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993, and
which shall be known as the Byers Peak Wilderness.
(15) Certain lands in the Arapaho National
Forest which comprise approximately 12,300 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Vasquez
Peak Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993,
and which shall be known as the Vasquez Peak
Wilderness.
(16) Certain lands in the San Juan National
Forest which comprise approximately 28,740 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘West Nee-
dle Wilderness Proposal and Weminuche Additions’’,
dated January, 1993, and which are hereby incor-
porated in and shall be deemed to be a part of the
Weminuche Wilderness designated by Public Law
93–632, as amended by Public Law 96–560.
(17) Certain lands in the Rio Grande National
Forest which comprise approximately 25,640 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Wheeler
Addition to the La Garita Wilderness Proposal’’,
dated January, 1993, and which shall be incor-
porated in and shall be deemed to be a part of the
La Garita Wilderness designated by Public Law 96–
560.
(18) Certain lands in the Arapaho National
Forest which comprise approximately 13,175 acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Farr Wil-
derness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993, and which
shall be known as the Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness.
(19) Certain lands in the Arapaho National
Forest which comprise approximately 6,990 acres, as
generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Bowen Gulch
Additions to Never Summer Wilderness Proposal’’,
dated January, 1993, and which are hereby incor-
porated in and shall be deemed to be a part of the
Never Summer Wilderness designated by Public Law
96–560.
(b) MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS.—As soon as prac-
ticable after the date of enactment of this Act, the appro-
priate Secretary shall file a map and a boundary descrip-
tion of each area designated as wilderness by this Act with
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the
United States Senate and the Committee on Natural Re-
sources of the United States House of Representatives.
Each map and description shall have the same force and
effect as if included in this Act, except that the appro-
priate Secretary is authorized to correct clerical and typo-
graphical errors in such boundary descriptions and maps.
Such maps and boundary descriptions shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief
of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, and the
Office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior, as appropriate.
SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Subject to valid existing
rights, lands designated as wilderness by this Act shall be
managed by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary
of the Interior, as appropriate, in accordance with the Wil-
derness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this Act, except
that, with respect to any wilderness areas designated by
this Act, any reference in the Wilderness Act to the effec-
tive date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a
reference to the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) Administrative jurisdiction over those lands des-
ignated as wilderness pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (10)
of section 2(a) of this Act, and which, as of the date of
enactment of this Act, are administered by the Bureau
of Land Management, is hereby transferred to the Forest
Service and such lands are hereby added to the appro-
priate National Forest.
(b) GRAZING.—Grazing of livestock in wilderness
areas designated by this Act shall be administered in
accordance with the provisions of section 4(d)(4) of the
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)), as further
interpreted by section 108 of Public Law 96–560, and,
as regards wilderness managed by the Bureau of Land
Management, the guidelines set forth in Appendix A of
House Report 101–405 of the 101st Congress.
(c) STATE JURISDICTION.—As provided in section
4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(7)),
nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting the ju-
risdiction or responsibilities of the State of Colorado with
respect to wildlife and fish in Colorado.
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 2(e) of the
Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978 (92 Stat.
41) is amended by striking ‘‘Subject to’’ and all that
follows through ‘‘System.’’.
(e) BUFFER ZONES.—Congress does not intend that
the designation by this Act of wilderness areas in the State
of Colorado creates or implies the creation of protective
perimeters or buffer zones around any wilderness area.
The fact that nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen
or heard from within a wilderness area shall not, of itself,
preclude such activities or uses up to the boundary of the
wilderness area.
(f) WILDERNESS NAME CHANGE.—The wilderness
area designated as ‘‘Big Blue Wilderness’’ by section
102(a)(1) of Public Law 96–560, and the additions there-
to made by paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 2(a) of this
Act, shall hereafter be known as the Uncompahgre Wilder-
ness. Any reference to the Big Blue Wilderness in any law,
regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the
United States shall be considered to be a reference to the
Uncompahgre Wilderness.
(g) BOUNDARIES
AND AUTHORIZATIONS
TO USE
LANDS.—(1) For the purpose of section 7 of the Land
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C.
4601–9), the boundaries of affected National Forests, as
modified by this section, shall be considered to be the
boundaries of such National Forests as of January 1,
1965.
(2) Nothing in this subsection shall affect valid exist-
ing rights of any person under the authority of law.
(3) Authorizations to use lands transferred by this
section which were issued prior to the date of enactment
of this Act shall remain subject to the laws and regulations
under which they were issued, to the extent consistent with
this Act. Such authorizations shall be administered by the
Secretary of Agriculture. Any renewal or extension of such
authorizations shall be subject to the laws and regulations
pertaining to the Forest Service, Department of Agri-
culture, and the applicable law, including this Act. The
change of administrative jurisdiction resulting from the
enactment of this section shall not in itself constitute a
basis for denying or approving the renewal or reissuance
of any such authorization.
SEC. 4. WILDERNESS RELEASE.
(a) REPEAL OF WILDERNESS STUDY PROVISIONS.—
Sections 105 and 106 of the Act of December 22, 1980
(Public Law 96–560), are hereby repealed.
(b) INITIAL PLANS.—Section 107(b)(2) of the Act of
December 22, 1980 (Public Law 96–560), is amended by
striking out ‘‘except those lands remaining in further plan-
ning upon enactment of this Act, areas listed in section
105 and 106 of this Act, or previously congressionally des-
ignated wilderness study areas,’’.
SEC. 5. FOSSIL RIDGE RECREATION MANAGEMENT AREA.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) In order to conserve, pro-
tect, and enhance the scenic, wildlife, recreational, and
other natural resource values of the Fossil Ridge area,
there is hereby established the Fossil Ridge Recreation
Management Area (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘recre-
ation management area’’).
(2) The recreation management area shall consist of
certain lands in the Gunnison National Forest, Colorado,
which comprise approximately 43,900 acres, as generally
depicted as ‘‘Area A’’ on a map entitled ‘‘Fossil Ridge
Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993.
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of Agriculture
shall administer the recreation management area in ac-
cordance with this section and the laws and regulations
generally applicable to the National Forest System.
(c) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights,
all lands within the recreation management area are here-
by withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or
disposal under the public land laws, from location, entry,
and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition
under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including
all amendments thereto.
(d) TIMBER HARVESTING.—No timber harvesting
shall be allowed within the recreation management area
except to the extent that would be permitted in wilderness
under section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act for necessary
control of fire, insects, and diseases, and for public safety.
(e) LIVESTOCK GRAZING.—The designation of the
recreation management area shall not be construed to pro-
hibit, or change the administration of, the grazing of live-
stock within the recreation management area.
(f) DEVELOPMENT.—No developed campgrounds
shall be constructed within the recreation management
area. After the date of enactment of this Act, no new roads
or trails may be constructed within the recreation manage-
ment area.
(g) OFF-ROAD RECREATION.—Motorized travel shall
be permitted within the recreation management area only
on those established trails and routes existing as of July
1, 1991, on which such travel was permitted as of such
date, except that other trails and routes may be used
where necessary for administrative purposes or to respond
to an emergency. No later than one year after the date
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall identify such
routes and trials and shall prepare and make available to
the public a map showing such routes and trials. Nothing
in this subsection shall be construed as precluding the Sec-
retary from closing any trail or route from use for pur-
poses of resource protection or public safety.
SEC. 6. BOWEN GULCH PROTECTION AREA.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) There is hereby estab-
lished in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, the
Bowen Gulch Protection Area (hereinafter in this Act
referred to as the ‘‘protection area’’).
(2) The protection area shall consist of certain lands
in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, which comprise
approximately 11,600 acres, as generally depicted as
‘‘Area A’’ on a map entitled ‘‘Bowen Gulch Additions to
Never Summer Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January,
1993.
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall admin-
ister the protection area in accordance with this section
and the laws and regulations generally applicable to the
National Forest System.
(c) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights,
all lands within the protection area are hereby withdrawn
from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under
the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent
under the mining laws, and from disposition under the
mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including all amend-
ments thereto.
(d) DEVELOPMENT.—No developed campgrounds
shall be constructed within the protection area. After the
date of enactment of this Act, no new roads or trails may
be constructed within the protection area.
(e) TIMBER HARVESTING.—No timber harvesting
shall be allowed within the protection area except to the
extent that would be permitted in wilderness under section
4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act for necessary control of fire,
insects, and diseases, and for public safety.
(f) MOTORIZED TRAVEL.—Motorized travel shall be
permitted within the protection area only on those des-
ignated trails and routes existing as of July 1, 1991, and
only during periods of adequate snow cover. At all other
times, mechanized, non-motorized travel shall be per-
mitted within the protection area.
(g) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—During the revision of the
Land and Resource Management Plan for the Arapaho
National Forest, the Forest Service shall develop a man-
agement plan for the protection area, after providing for
public comment.
SEC. 7. OTHER LANDS.
Nothing in this Act shall affect ownership or use of
lands or interests therein not owned by the United States
or access to such lands available under other applicable
law.
SEC. 8. WATER.
(a) FINDINGS, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITION.—(1)
Congress finds that—
(A) the lands designated as wilderness by this
Act are located at the headwaters of the streams
and rivers on those lands, with few, if any, actual or
proposed water resource facilities located upstream
from such lands and few, if any, opportunities for
diversion, storage, or other uses of water occurring
outside such lands that would adversely affect the
wilderness values of such lands; and
(B) the lands designated as wilderness by this
Act are not suitable for use for development of new
water resource facilities, or for the expansion of ex-
isting facilities; and
(C) therefore, it is possible to provide for prop-
er management and protection of the wilderness
value of such lands in ways different from those uti-
lized in other legislation designating as wilderness
lands not sharing the attributes of the lands des-
ignated as wilderness by this Act.
(2) The purpose of this section is to protect the wil-
derness values of the lands designated as wilderness by
this Act by means other than those based on a Federal
reserved water right.
(3) As used in this section, the term ‘‘water resource
facility’’ means irrigation and pumping facilities, res-
ervoirs, water conservation works, aqueducts, canals,
ditches, pipelines, wells, hydropower projects, and trans-
mission and other ancillary facilities, and other water di-
version, storage, and carriage structures.
(b) RESTRICTIONS ON RIGHTS AND DISCLAIMER OF
EFFECT.—(1) Neither the Secretary of Agriculture nor
the Secretary of the Interior, nor any other officer, em-
ployee, representative, or agent of the United States, nor
any other person, shall assert in any court or agency, nor
shall any court or agency consider, any claim to or for
water or water rights in the State of Colorado, which is
based on any construction of any portion of this Act, or
the designation of any lands as wilderness by this Act,
as constituting an express or implied reservation of water
or water rights.
(2)(A) Nothing in this Act shall constitute or be con-
strued to constitute either an express or implied reserva-
tion of any water or water rights with respect to the
Piedra, Roubideau, and Tabeguache areas identified in
section 9 of this Act, or the Bowen Gulch Protection Area
or the Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area identi-
fied in sections 5 and 6 of this Act.
(B) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a cre-
ation, recognition, disclaimer, relinquishment, or reduction
of any water rights of the United States in the State of
Colorado existing before the date of enactment of this Act,
except as provided in subsection (g)(2) of this section.
(C) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this sec-
tion, nothing in this Act shall be construed as constituting
an interpretation of any other Act or any designation
made by or pursuant thereto.
(D) Nothing in this section shall be construed as es-
tablishing a precedent with regard to any future wilder-
ness designations.
(c) NEW OR EXPANDED PROJECTS.—Notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, on and after the date of
enactment of this Act neither the President nor any other
officer, employee, or agent of the United States shall fund,
assist, authorize, or issue a license or permit for the devel-
opment of any new water resource facility within the areas
described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act or the en-
largement of any water resource facility within the areas
described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act.
(d) ACCESS AND OPERATION.—(1) Subject to the
provisions of this subsection (d), the Secretary shall allow
reasonable access to water resource facilities in existence
on the date of enactment of this Act within the areas de-
scribed in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act, including
motorized access where necessary and customarily em-
ployed on routes existing as of the date of enactment of
this Act.
(2) Existing access routes within such areas cus-
tomarily employed as of the date of enactment of this Act
may be used, maintained, repaired, and replaced to the
extent necessary to maintain their present function, de-
sign, and serviceable operation, so long as such activities
have no increased adverse impacts on the resources and
values of the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9
of this Act than existed as of the date of enactment of
this Act.
(3) Subject to the provisions of subsections (c) and
(d), the Secretary shall allow water resource facilities ex-
isting on the date of enactment of this Act within areas
described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act to be used,
operated, maintained, repaired, and replaced to the extent
necessary for the continued exercise, in accordance with
Colorado state law, of vested water rights adjudicated for
use in connection with such facilities by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction prior to the date of enactment of this
Act: Provided, That the impact of an existing facility on
the water resources and values of the area shall not be
increased as a result of changes in the adjudicated type
of use of such facility as of the date of enactment of this
Act.
(4) Water resource facilities, and access routes serv-
ing such facilities, existing within the areas described in
sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act on the date of enactment
of this Act shall be maintained and repaired when and
to the extent necessary to prevent increased adverse im-
pacts on the resources and values of the areas described
in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act.
(e) EXISTING PROJECTS.—Except as provided in
subsections (c) and (d) of this section, the provisions of
this Act related to the areas described in sections 2, 5,
6, and 9 of this Act, and the inclusion in the National
Wilderness Preservation System of the areas described in
section 2 of this Act, shall not be construed to affect or
limit the use, operation, maintenance, repair, modification,
or replacement of water resources facilities in existence on
the date of enactment of this Act within the boundaries
of the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this
Act.
(f) MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION.—The Sec-
retaries of Agriculture and the Interior shall monitor the
operation of and access to water resource facilities within
the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act
and take all steps necessary to implement the provisions
of this section.
(g) INTERSTATE COMPACTS
AND NORTH PLATTE
RIVER.—(1) Nothing in this Act, and nothing in any pre-
vious Act designating any lands as wilderness, shall be
construed as limiting, altering, modifying, or amending
any of the interstate compacts or equitable apportionment
decrees that apportion water among and between the State
of Colorado and other States. Except as expressly provided
in this section, nothing in this Act shall affect or limit
the development or use by existing and future holders of
vested water rights of Colorado’s full apportionment of
such waters.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nei-
ther the Secretary of Agriculture nor any other officer,
employee, or agent of the United States, or any other per-
son, shall assert in any court or agency of the United
States or any other jurisdiction any rights, and no court
or agency of the United States shall consider any claim
or defense asserted by any person based upon such rights,
which may be determined to have been established for wa-
ters of the North Platte River for purposes of the Platte
River Wilderness Area established by Public Law 98–550,
located on the Colorado-Wyoming State boundary, to the
extent such rights would limit the use or development of
water within Colorado by present and future holders of
vested water rights in the North Platte River and its tribu-
taries, to the full extent allowed under interstate compact
or United States Supreme Court equitable decree. Any
such rights shall be exercised as if junior to, in a manner
so as not to prevent, the use or development of Colorado’s
full entitlement to interstate waters of the North Platte
River and its tributaries within Colorado allowed under
interstate compact or United States Supreme Court equi-
table decree.
SEC. 9. PIEDRA, ROUBIDEAU, AND TABEGUACHE AREAS.
(a) AREAS.—The provisions of this section shall
apply to the following areas:
(1) Certain lands in the San Juan National
Forest, Colorado, comprising approximately 62,550
acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled
‘‘Piedra Area’’ dated January, 1993; and
(2) Certain lands in the Uncompahgre National
Forest, Colorado, comprising approximately 19,650
acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled
‘‘Roubideau Area’’ dated January, 1993; and
(3) Certain lands in the Uncompahgre National
Forest, Colorado and in the San Juan Resource
Area administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, comprising approximately 17,240 acres, as
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Tabeguache
Area’’ dated January, 1993.
(b) MANAGEMENT.—(1) Subject to valid existing
rights, the areas described in subsection (a) are withdrawn
from all forms of location, leasing, patent, disposition, or
disposal under public land, mining, and mineral and geo-
thermal leasing laws of the United States.
(2) The areas described in subsection (a) shall not
be subject to any obligation to further study such lands
for wilderness designation.
(3) Until Congress determines otherwise, and subject
to the provisions of section 8 of this Act, activities within
such areas shall be managed by the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate,
so as to maintain the areas’ presently existing wilderness
character and potential for inclusion in the National
Wilderness Preservation System.
(4) Livestock grazing in such areas shall be permitted
and managed to the same extent and in the same manner
as of the date of enactment of this Act. Except as provided
by this Act, mechanized or motorized travel shall not be
permitted in such areas: Provided, That the Secretary may
permit motorized travel on trail number 535 in the San
Juan National Forest during periods of adequate snow
cover.
(c) DATA COLLECTION.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation
with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, shall com-
pile data concerning the water resources of the areas de-
scribed in subsection (a) and existing and proposed water
resource facilities affecting such values.
SEC. 10. SPANISH PEAKS PLANNING AREA STUDY.
(a) REPORT.—Not later than three years from the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall report
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United
States House of Representatives and the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Sen-
ate on the status of private property interests located
within the Spanish Peaks planning area of the San Isabel
National Forest in Colorado, as generally depicted on a
map entitled ‘‘Spanish Peaks Further Planning Area
Study’’, dated January, 1993.
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report required by
this section shall identify the location of all private prop-
erty situated within the exterior boundaries of the Spanish
Peaks planning area; the nature of such property inter-
ests; the acreage of such private property interests; and
the Secretary’s views on whether the owners of said prop-
erties would be willing to enter into either a sale or ex-
change of these properties at fair market value if such a
transaction became available in the near future.
(c) NO AUTHORIZATION OF EMINENT DOMAIN.—
Nothing contained in this Act authorizes, and nothing in
this Act shall be construed to authorize, the acquisition
of real property by eminent domain.
(d) MANAGEMENT.—Notwithstanding the provisions
of section 4(a) of this Act, for a period of three years from
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall man-
age the Spanish Peaks planning area as provided by sec-
tion 105(c) of Public Law 96–560.
SEC. 11. PUMPING PLANT NAME CHANGE.
The facility of the Bureau of Reclamation, Depart-
ment of the Interior, known as the Granby Pumping Plant
of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, in the State of
Colorado, shall hereafter be known as the Farr Pumping
Plant. Any reference to the Granby Pumping Plant in any
law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of
the United States shall be considered to be a reference
to the Farr Pumping Plant.
Passed the House of Representatives July 19, 1993.
Attest:
Clerk.
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