(e) PUBLIC NOTICE.—Not later than three months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall notify every permittee whose allotment is located 
within an Ecosystem Protection area that the permittee 
is eligible for the voluntary grazing permit buyout author-
ized by this section. The notification shall include the op-
tions available to permittees under this section and section 
4(b). During the same time period, the names and loca-
tions of the allotments shall be printed in the local news-
papers. 
(f) RELATION TO OTHER AUTHORITY.—Nothing in 
this Act shall be construed to affect the Secretary’s au-
thority to otherwise modify or terminate grazing permits 
without compensation. Compensation disbursed pursuant 
to this section shall not create a property right for permit-
tees. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘animal unit month’’ means the 
amount of forage needed to sustain one animal unit 
for one month, as determined by the Secretary. 
(2) The terms ‘‘grazing permit’’ means any doc-
ument authorizing the use of National Forest Sys-
tem land for the purpose of grazing domestic live-
stock.
SEC. 6. FOREST PLAN REVISION ASSESSMENTS. 
(a) ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED.—In any Ecosystem 
Protection Area located east of the 104th meridian in the 
contiguous 48 States, the Secretary shall include the fol-
lowing assessments as part of the first round of Forest 
Service land and resource management plan revisions for 
each of these areas made after the date of the enactment 
of this Act: 
(1) An assessment of expanding the designated 
wilderness area or creating new wilderness areas in 
all the primitive areas created by this Act. 
(2) An assessment of the ecological benefit to 
be derived from closing any unimproved roads bi-
secting any such areas within encircling improved 
roads and from closing any improved roads cherry 
stemmed into those areas. 
(3) An assessment of the appropriate manage-
ment practices most likely to improve habitat for key 
species in any of the above described areas, if those 
areas are not to be proposed to Congress as new wil-
derness areas. 
(b) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.—Each assessment re-
quired by this section shall utilize all the procedures de-
signed to provide public input into the Forest Service plan-
ning process.
SEC. 7. ORIGINAL ECOSYSTEM PROTECTION AREAS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The original Ecosystem Protec-
tion Areas include one or more of the largest existing Na-
tional Forest System wilderness areas in the following 
States and the surrounding primitive areas delineated as 
provided in section 8 or 9. 
(b) 
DESIGNATION.—The 
Ecosystem 
Protection 
Areas, and the wilderness area forming the their core, are 
as follows: 
(1) Alabama: Sipsey. 
(2) Arizona: 
(A) Mazatzal. 
(B) Blue Range (also in New Mexico), in-
cluding the Blue Range Primitive Area. 
(C) Chiricahua. 
(3) Arkansas: 
(A) Hurricane Creek. 
(B) Upper Kiamichi (also in Oklahoma). 
(4) California: 
(A) High Sierra, including John Muir, 
Ansel Adams, Golden Trout, Monarch, Dinkey 
Lakes, South Sierra, Dome Land, Hoover and 
Emigrant. 
(B) Trinity Alps. 
(5) Colorado: 
(A) Weminuche.
(B) West Elk. 
(C) South San Juan. 
(6) Florida: 
(A) Big Gum Swamp. 
(B) Bradwell Bay. 
(7) Georgia: 
(A) Cohutta (also in Tennessee). 
(B) Southern Nantahala (also in North 
Carolina). 
(8) Idaho: 
(A) Central Idaho Massif, including Frank 
Church-River of No Return, Selway–Bitterroot 
(also in Montana), and Gospel Hump. 
(B) Hells Canyon (also in Oregon). 
(9) Indiana: Charles C. Deam. 
(10) Kentucky: Clifty. 
(11) Maine: Caribou-Speckled Mountain. 
(12) Michigan: Sylvania. 
(13) Minnesota: Boundary Waters Canoe Area. 
(14) Missouri: Irish. 
(15) Montana: 
(A) Montana Rockies, including Bob Mar-
shal, Great Bear, and Scapegoat. 
(B) 
Central 
Idaho 
Massif, 
including 
Selway-Bitterroot (also in Idaho).
(C) Yellowstone, including Lee Metcalf and 
Absaroka-Beartooth (also in Wyoming). 
(16) Nevada: Arc Dome. 
(17) New Hampshire: 
(A) Pemiwegasset. 
(B) Presidential Range-Dry River. 
(C) Sandwich Range. 
(18) New Mexico: 
(A) Gila, including Gila and Aldo Leopold. 
(B) Blue Range (also in Arizona). 
(19) North Carolina: 
(A) Citico Creek (also in Tennessee), in-
cluding Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock. 
(B) Southern Nantahala (also in Georgia). 
(20) Oklahoma: Upper Kiamichi (also in Arkan-
sas). 
(21) Oregon: Hells Canyon, including Hells 
Canyon (also in Idaho) and Eagle Cap. 
(22) Pennsylvania: Hickory Creek. 
(23) Tennessee: 
(A) Cohutta, including Big Frog (also in 
Georgia). 
(B) Citico Creek, including Joyce Kilmer- 
Slickrock (also in North Carolina). 
(24) Texas:
(A) Upland Island. 
(B) Indian Mounds. 
(25) Utah: High Uintas. 
(26) Vermont: 
(A) Breadloaf. 
(B) Lyle Brook. 
(27) Virginia: Mountain Lake (also in West 
Virginia). 
(28) Washington: North Cascades, including 
Glacier Peak, Pasayten, Lake Chelan-Sawtooth, Mt. 
Baker, and Noisy Diobsud. 
(29) West Virginia: 
(A) Cranberry. 
(B) Mountain Lake (also in Virginia). 
(30) Wisconsin: Headwaters. 
(31) Wyoming: 
(A) 
Yellowstone, 
including 
Washakie, 
Teton, North Absaroka, Winegar Hole, Jeddiah 
Smith, Absaroka-Beartooth (also in Montana) 
and Lee Metcalf (wholly in Montana). 
(B) 
Wind 
River, 
including 
Bridger, 
Fitzpatrick and Popo Agie.