TITLE II—CENTRAL IDAHO 
WILDERNESS AREAS 
SEC. 201. ADDITIONS TO NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESER-
VATION SYSTEM. 
(a) ADDITIONS.—Congress has determined that the 
following lands in central Idaho shall be designated as wil-
derness and managed as components of the National Wil-
derness Preservation System: 
(1) 
HEMINGWAY-BOULDERS
WILDERNESS.— 
Certain Federal land in the Sawtooth and Challis 
National Forests, comprising approximately 110,438 
acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled 
‘‘Hemingway-Boulders Proposed Wilderness’’ and 
dated November 15, 2006, which shall be known as 
the ‘‘Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness’’. 
(2) WHITE
CLOUDS
WILDERNESS.—Certain 
Federal land in the Sawtooth and Challis National 
Forests, comprising approximately 76,657 acres, as 
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘White 
Clouds Proposed Wilderness’’ and dated November 
15, 2006, which shall be known as the ‘‘White 
Clouds Wilderness’’. 
(3) JERRY PEAK WILDERNESS.—Certain Fed-
eral land in the Challis National Forest and Challis 
District of the Bureau of Land Management, com-
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prising approximately 131,670 acres, as generally 
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Jerry Peak Wilder-
ness’’ and dated August 30, 2006, which shall be 
known as the ‘‘Jerry Peak Wilderness’’. In the case 
of the Bureau of Land Management land designated 
as wilderness by this paragraph, the land is included 
in the National Landscape Conservation System. 
(b) MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, in the case of the wilderness areas des-
ignated by paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) 
and the National Forest System land designated as 
wilderness by paragraph (3) of such subsection, and 
the Secretary of the Interior, in the case of the Bu-
reau of Land Management land designated as wil-
derness by paragraph (3) of such subsection, in this 
title referred to as the ‘‘Secretary concerned’’, shall 
file a map and legal description of the wilderness 
areas designated by such subsection with the Com-
mittee on Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the Senate. 
(2) EFFECT.—Each map and legal description 
shall have the same force and effect as if included 
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in this title, except that the Secretary concerned 
may correct clerical and typographical errors in the 
map or legal description. 
(3) AVAILABILITY.—Each map and legal de-
scription shall be on file and available for public in-
spection in the appropriate offices of the Bureau of 
Land Management or the Forest Service. 
(c) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 
the wilderness areas designated in subsection (a) are with-
drawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal 
under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent 
under the mining laws, and operation of the mineral leas-
ing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 
SEC. 202. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS 
AREAS. 
(a) APPLICATION OF WILDERNESS ACT.—Subject to 
valid existing rights, the wilderness areas designated by 
section 201 shall be managed by the Secretary concerned 
in accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 
et seq.) and this title. With respect to the wilderness areas, 
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 enactment of this Act, and any reference 
in the Wilderness Act to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary concerned. 
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(b) CONSISTENT INTERPRETATION
TO
THE PUB-
LIC.—Although the wilderness areas designated by section 
201 consist of National Forest System land under the ju-
risdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture and public land 
under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
shall collaborate to assure that the wilderness areas are 
interpreted to the public as an overall complex tied to-
gether by common location in the Boulder-White Cloud 
Mountains and common identity with the natural and cul-
tural history of the State of Idaho and its Native Amer-
ican and pioneer heritage. 
(c) COMPREHENSIVE WILDERNESS MANAGEMENT 
PLAN.—Not later than three years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture and 
Secretary of the Interior shall collaborate to develop a 
comprehensive wilderness management plan for the wil-
derness areas designated by section 201. The completed 
management plan shall be submitted to the Committee on 
Resources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. 
(d) FIRE, INSECTS, AND DISEASES.—Within the wil-
derness area designated by section 201, the Secretary con-
cerned may take such measures as the Secretary con-
cerned determines to be necessary for the control of fire, 
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insects, and diseases, subject to such conditions as the 
Secretary concerned considers desirable, as provided in 
section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 
1131(d)(1)). 
(e) WILDERNESS TRAILS AND TRAILHEADS.— 
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TRAILHEAD.—The 
Secretary concerned shall construct a new trailhead 
for nonmotorized users and improve access to the 
Big Boulder Trailhead to separate motorized users 
from nonmotorized users. 
(2) INCLUSION
OF
ACCESSIBLE
TRAIL.—The 
Secretary concerned shall upgrade the first mile of 
the Murdock Creek Trail in the Hemingway-Boul-
ders wilderness area designated by section 201 to a 
primitive, non-paved, and wheelchair accessible 
standard. 
(f) TREATMENT OF EXISTING CLAIMS AND PRIVATE 
LANDS.—Nothing in this title is intended to affect the 
rights or interests in real property, patented mining 
claims, or valid claims or prevent reasonable access to pri-
vate property or for the development and use of valid min-
eral rights. The Secretary concerned may enter into nego-
tiations with the holder of a patented claim or valid claim 
located in a wilderness area designated by section 201 for 
the voluntary relinquishment of the claim. 
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(g) GRAZING.—Grazing of livestock in a wilderness 
area designated by section 201, where established before 
the date of the enactment of this Act, shall be adminis-
tered in accordance with the provisions of section 4(d)(4) 
of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)), section 108 
of Public Law 96–560, and section 101(f) of Public Law 
101–628, and in accordance with the guidelines set forth 
in Appendix A of House Report 96–617 of the 96th Con-
gress and House Report 101–405 of the 101st Congress. 
(h) COMMERCIAL OUTFITTERS
AND SADDLE
AND 
PACK STOCK.—Nothing in this title shall preclude horse-
back riding or the entry of recreational saddle or pack 
stock into the wilderness areas designated by section 201, 
including when such entry is made by commercial outfit-
ters. 
SEC. 203. ACQUISITION OF MINERAL INTERESTS AND 
LANDS FROM WILLING SELLERS. 
(a) ACQUISITION.—Within the boundaries of the wil-
derness areas designated by section 201, the Secretary 
concerned may acquire, through purchase from willing 
sellers or donation from willing owners, all right, title, and 
interest in all mineral interests, claims, and parcels of land 
that have been patented under the Act of May 10, 1872 
(30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.; commonly known as the Mining 
Act of 1872). 
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(b) CONSIDERATION.—In exercising the authority 
provided by subsection (a) to acquire lands and interests, 
the Secretary concerned shall offer the owners of record 
of each patent, who voluntarily wish to sell, $20,000 as 
compensation for the acquisition of these interests. The 
Secretary concerned shall make such offers as soon as 
practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
such offers shall remain open for acceptance during the 
five-year period beginning on such date. 
(c) INCORPORATION
IN WILDERNESS AREA.—Any 
land or interest in land located inside the boundaries of 
a wilderness area designated by section 201 that is ac-
quired by the United States after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act shall be added to and administered as 
part of that wilderness area. 
SEC. 204. ADJACENT MANAGEMENT. 
(a) NO
PROTECTIVE
PERIMETERS
OR
BUFFER 
ZONES.—Congress does not intend for the designation of 
the wilderness areas by section 201 to lead to the creation 
of protective perimeters or buffer zones around any such 
wilderness area. 
(b) NONWILDERNESS ACTIVITIES.—The fact that 
nonwilderness activities or uses outside of a wilderness 
area designated by section 201 can be seen or heard from 
inside of the wilderness area shall not preclude the conduct 
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of those activities or uses outside the boundaries of the 
wilderness area. 
SEC. 205. WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT. 
Consistent with section 4 of the Wilderness Act (16 
U.S.C. 1133), nothing in this title precludes a Federal, 
State, or local agency from conducting wildfire manage-
ment operations, including operations using aircraft or 
mechanized equipment, to manage wildfires in the wilder-
ness areas designated by section 201. 
SEC. 206. WATER RIGHTS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The lands designated as wilderness areas by 
section 201 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, opportu-
nities for diversion, storage, or other uses of water 
occurring outside such lands that would adversely 
affect the wilderness values of such lands. 
(2) The lands designated as wilderness areas by 
section 201 are not suitable for use for development 
of new water resource facilities or for the expansion 
of existing facilities. 
(3) Therefore, it is possible to provide for prop-
er management and protection of the wilderness 
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value of the lands designated as wilderness areas by 
section 201 in ways different from the ways utilized 
in other laws designating wilderness areas. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to pro-
tect the wilderness values of the lands designated as wil-
derness areas by section 201 by means other than a feder-
ally reserved water right. 
(c) STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
title— 
(1) shall constitute, or be construed to con-
stitute, either an express or implied reservation by 
the United States of any water or water rights with 
respect to the wilderness areas designated by section 
201; 
(2) shall affect any water rights in the State of 
Idaho existing on the date of the enactment of this 
Act, including any water rights held by the United 
States; 
(3) shall be construed as establishing a prece-
dent with regard to any future wilderness designa-
tions; 
(4) shall be construed as limiting, altering, 
modifying, or amending any of the interstate com-
pacts or equitable apportionment decrees that appor-
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tion water among and between the State of Idaho 
and other States; and 
(5) shall be construed as limiting, altering, 
modifying, or amending provisions of Public Law 
92–400, which established the Sawtooth National 
Recreation Area (16 U.S.C. 460aa et seq.). 
(d) IDAHO WATER LAW.—The Secretary concerned 
shall follow the procedural and substantive requirements 
of the law of the State of Idaho when seeking to establish 
any water rights, not in existence on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, with respect to the wilderness areas des-
ignated by section 201. 
(e) NEW PROJECTS.— 
(1) PROHIBITION.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this Act, on and after the date of the enact-
ment 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 development of any new water re-
source facility inside any of the wilderness areas des-
ignated by section 201. 
(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘water resource facility’’ means irrigation and 
pumping facilities, reservoirs, water conservation 
works, aqueducts, canals, ditches, pipelines, wells, 
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hydropower projects, and transmission and other an-
cillary facilities, and other water diversion, storage, 
and carriage structures. 
SEC. 207. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT. 
(a) STATE JURISDICTION.—In accordance with sec-
tion 4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(7)), 
nothing in this title affects or diminishes the jurisdiction 
of the State of Idaho with respect to fish and wildlife man-
agement, including the regulation of hunting, fishing, and 
trapping, in the wilderness areas designated by section 
201. 
(b) MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—In furtherance of 
the purposes and principles of the Wilderness Act, man-
agement activities to maintain or restore fish and wildlife 
populations and the habitats to support such populations 
may be carried out within wilderness areas designated by 
section 201 where consistent with relevant wilderness 
management plans, in accordance with appropriate poli-
cies such as those set forth in Appendix B of House Re-
port 101–405 of the 101st Congress, including the occa-
sional and temporary use of motorized vehicles, if such 
use, as determined by the Secretary concerned would pro-
mote healthy, viable, and more naturally distributed wild-
life populations that would enhance wilderness values and 
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