I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1155 
To provide additional protections for National Forest System lands in Alaska 
through the designation of wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, 
Land Use Designation II management areas, restoration areas, special 
management areas, and additional components of the national wild and 
scenic rivers system. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 8, 2005 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 
PALLONE, Mr. WEINER, Ms. LEE, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. NEAL of Massachu-
setts, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. FARR, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. BOUCHER, 
Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. CASE, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. KUCINICH, Ms. MCCOL-
LUM of Minnesota, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. OLVER, Mr. 
HONDA, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. 
SABO, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. COO-
PER, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. 
OWENS, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. WEXLER, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. EVANS, Mr. 
SHERMAN, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, 
Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. 
COSTELLO, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. 
DOGGETT, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. CLAY, Mrs. 
TAUSCHER, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. WU, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. MORAN of Vir-
ginia, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD, 
Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. HOLT, Mrs. MCCARTHY, Mr. RUSH, Mr. MOORE of 
Kansas, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. RYAN of 
Ohio, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. NADLER, Mr. SANDERS, and Mr. 
PAYNE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Resources 
A BILL 
To provide additional protections for National Forest System 
lands in Alaska through the designation of wilderness
areas, wilderness study areas, Land Use Designation II 
management areas, restoration areas, special manage-
ment areas, and additional components of the national 
wild and scenic rivers system. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Alaska Rainforest Conservation Act of 2005’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Congressional intent. 
Sec. 3. Reference map. 
TITLE I—ADDITIONAL WILDERNESS AREAS IN ALASKA 
NATIONAL FORESTS 
Sec. 101. Designation of wilderness areas, Chugach National Forest. 
Sec. 102. Designation of wilderness areas, Tongass National Forest. 
TITLE II—WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS IN CHUGACH NATIONAL 
FOREST 
Sec. 201. Designation of wilderness study areas. 
TITLE III—LAND USE DESIGNATION II AREAS IN TONGASS 
NATIONAL FOREST 
Sec. 301. Designation of additional Land Use Designation II areas. 
TITLE IV—RESTORATION AREAS IN TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST 
Sec. 401. Designation of restoration areas. 
TITLE V—SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS IN TONGASS NATIONAL 
FOREST 
Sec. 501. Designation of special management areas. 
TITLE VI—WILD, SCENIC, AND RECREATIONAL RIVERS IN 
ALASKA NATIONAL FORESTS 
Sec. 601. Designation of wild, scenic, and recreational rivers within Chugach 
National Forest.
Sec. 602. Designation of certain rivers within Chugach National Forest for 
study for potential addition to system. 
Sec. 603. Withdrawal. 
Sec. 604. Designation of wild, scenic, and recreational rivers within Tongass 
National Forest. 
Sec. 605. Special administrative provisions. 
TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 701. Maps and legal description. 
Sec. 702. Fish and wildlife. 
Sec. 703. Management of newly acquired lands. 
Sec. 704. Water rights. 
Sec. 705. Withdrawal. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL INTENT. 
It is the intent of Congress in this Act— 
(1) to safeguard certain lands in the Chugach 
and Tongass National Forests in Alaska in per-
petuity to preserve the wilderness values of these 
lands; 
(2) to guarantee the public’s use and enjoyment 
of these lands through nondestructive uses, including 
hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, and wildness ap-
preciation; and 
(3) to continue to provide an opportunity for 
residents of Alaska to engage in a subsistence way 
of life. 
SEC. 3. REFERENCE MAP. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘Alaska Rainforest Map’’ 
means the following two maps prepared in connection with 
this Act:
(1) The map entitled ‘‘Alaska Rainforest Con-
servation Proposal for the Chugach National For-
est’’, dated March 2005. 
(2) The map entitled ‘‘Alaska Rainforest Con-
servation Proposal for the Tongass National For-
est’’, dated March 2005. 
TITLE I—ADDITIONAL WILDER-
NESS AREAS IN ALASKA NA-
TIONAL FORESTS 
SEC. 101. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS, CHUGACH 
NATIONAL FOREST. 
In furtherance of the provisions of the Wilderness Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), certain public lands within the 
Chugach National Forest in Alaska, which together com-
prise approximately 3,659,900 acres and are depicted as 
‘‘Proposed Wilderness’’ on the Alaska Rainforest Map, are 
hereby designated as wilderness and therefore as compo-
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
The wilderness areas shall bear the nomenclature and con-
tain approximate acreage as follows: 
(1) Russian River-Ascension Wilderness, con-
sisting of approximately 100,200 acres, as generally 
depicted on the Alaska Rainforest Map as ‘‘Russian 
River-Ascension Wilderness’’.