(3) ALLOWABLE ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary of 
Agriculture may allow Heliskiing, that have been au-
thorized on the Federal lands included within the 
Heliskiing Special Management Area as of the date 
of the enactment of this Act to continue within the 
area designated as the Heliskiing Special Manage-
ment Area. The designation of the Heliskiing Special 
Management Area shall not impact future permit 
processes relating to such activities. 
(4) APPLICABLE LAW.—Any uses of the Fed-
eral lands included within the Heliskiing Special 
Management Area, including activities described in 
paragraph (3), shall be carried out in accordance 
with applicable law. 
(d) EVENTUAL DESIGNATION AS WASATCH MOUN-
TAIN WILDERNESS.— 
(1) DESIGNATION
FOR
WILDERNESS.—The 
Federal lands included within the Heliskiing Special 
Management Area shall be designated as wilderness 
and as a new component of the National Wilderness 
Preservation System on the date on which the Sec-
retary of Agriculture publishes in the Federal Reg-
ister notice that all commercial helicopter-assisted 
skiing or snowboarding activities on the lands has 
been terminated. 
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(2) RENAMING.—Upon its designation as wil-
derness under paragraph (1), the Heliskiing Special 
Management Area shall be known and redesignated 
as the ‘‘Wasatch Mountain Wilderness’’. 
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. 
(a) COVERED LAND DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘‘covered land’’ means— 
(1) the wilderness areas designated or expanded 
by sections 2 and 3; and 
(2) the Heliskiing Special Management Area 
designated by section 3. 
(b) ADMINISTRATION GENERALLY.—Subject to valid 
rights in existence on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, land designated as wilderness by section 2 or 3 shall 
be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accord-
ance with— 
(1) the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et 
seq.); and 
(2) this Act. 
(c) TREATMENT OF EFFECTIVE DATE OF WILDER-
NESS ACT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to land des-
ignated as wilderness by section 2, any reference in 
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) to the 
effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed 
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to be a reference to the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(2) WASATCH MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS.—With 
respect to the Wasatch Mountain Wilderness des-
ignated by section 3, any reference in the Wilderness 
Act to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the date of the Fed-
eral Register notice referred to in section 3(d)(1). 
(d) FISH AND WILDLIFE.—Nothing in this Act shall 
affect the jurisdiction or responsibility of the State of 
Utah with respect to wildlife and fish. 
(e) NO BUFFER ZONES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act shall 
create a protective perimeter or buffer zone around 
covered land. 
(2) ACTIVITIES
OUTSIDE
WILDERNESS.—The 
fact that a nonwilderness activity or use can be seen 
or heard from within covered land shall not preclude 
the conduct of the activity or use outside the bound-
ary of the covered land. 
(f) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid rights in exist-
ence on the date of the enactment of this Act, covered 
land is withdrawn from all forms of— 
(1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under pub-
lic land laws; 
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(2) location, entry, and patent under mining 
laws; and 
(3) disposition under all laws pertaining to min-
eral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. 
(g) ACQUIRED LAND.—Any land or interest in land 
located inside the boundaries of covered land that is ac-
quired by the United States after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act shall become part of the relevant wilder-
ness or special management area and shall be managed 
in accordance with this Act and other applicable law. 
SEC. 5. LAND EXCHANGE, UINTA-WASATCH-CACHE NA-
TIONAL FOREST. 
(a) DESCRIPTION OF LAND EXCHANGE.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall expedite a land exchange be-
tween Snowbird Corp and the Secretary involving land 
owned by Snowbird Corp in the Flagstaff White Pine and 
Red Pine areas of Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons of 
the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and National 
Forest System land located in the American Fork Twins. 
It is the intent of Congress that the land exchange be com-
pleted not later than one year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. It is the intent of Congress that the 
Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service 
and the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, and in ac-
cordance with applicable law, expeditiously facilitates the 
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