four hundred and ten acres, as generally depicted on
a map entitled ‘‘Slate Range Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated October 1991, and which shall be known as the
Slate Range Wilderness.
(64) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately sixteen thousand seven
hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on a
map entitled ‘‘South Nopah Range Wilderness—Pro-
posed’’, dated February 1986, and which shall be
known as the South Nopah Range Wilderness.
(65) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately seven thousand and
fifty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled
‘‘Stateline Wilderness—Proposed’’, dated May 1991,
and which shall be known as the Stateline Wilderness.
(66) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately eighty-one thousand
six hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map en-
titled ‘‘Stepladder Mountains Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated February 1986, and which shall be known as
the Stepladder Mountains Wilderness.
(67) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately twenty-nine thousand
one hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted
on a map entitled ‘‘Surprise Canyon Wilderness—
Proposed’’, dated September 1991, and which shall be
known as the Surprise Canyon Wilderness.
(68) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately seventeen thousand
eight hundred and twenty acres, as generally depicted
on a map entitled ‘‘Sylvania Mountains Wilderness—
Proposed’’, dated February 1986, and which shall be
known as the Sylvania Mountains Wilderness.
(69) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately thirty-three thousand
seven hundred and twenty acres, as generally depicted
on a map entitled ‘‘Trilobite Wilderness—Proposed’’,
dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the
Trilobite Wilderness.
(70) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management,
which comprise approximately one hundred forty-four
thousand five hundred acres, as generally depicted on
a map entitled ‘‘Turtle Mountains Wilderness—Pro-
posed 1’’, dated February 1986 and a map entitled
‘‘Turtle Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 2’’, dated
May 1991, and which shall be known as the Turtle
Mountains Wilderness.
(71) Certain lands in the California Desert Con-
servation Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau
of Land Management, which comprise approximately
seventy-seven thousand five hundred and twenty
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Whip-
ple Mountains Wilderness—Proposed’’, dated July
1993, and which shall be known as the Whipple
Mountains Wilderness.
ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS
SEC. 103. Subject to valid existing rights, each wilder-
ness area designated under section 102 shall be adminis-
tered by the appropriate Secretary in accordance with the
provisions of the Wilderness Act, except that any reference
in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness
Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date
of this title and any reference to the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary
who has administrative jurisdiction over the area.
GRAZING
SEC. 104. Within the wilderness areas designated
under section 102, the grazing of livestock, where established
prior to the enactment of this Act, shall be permitted to
continue subject to such reasonable regulations, policies,
and practices as the Secretary deems necessary, as long as
such regulations, policies, and practices fully conform with
and implement the intent of Congress regarding grazing in
such areas as such intent is expressed in the Wilderness Act
and section 108 of Public Law 96–560 (16 U.S.C. 133 note).
BUFFER ZONES
SEC. 105. The Congress does not intend for the des-
ignation of wilderness areas in section 102 of this Act to
lead to the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones
around any such wilderness area. The fact that
nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen or heard from
areas within a wilderness shall not, of itself, preclude such
activities or uses up to the boundary of the wilderness area.
MINING CLAIM VALIDITY REVIEW
SEC. 106. The Secretary of the Interior shall not ap-
prove any plan of operation prior to determining the valid-
ity of the unpatented mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel
sites affected by such plan within any wilderness area des-
ignated under section 102, and shall submit to Congress rec-
ommendations as to whether any valid or patented claims
should be acquired by the United States, including the esti-
mated acquisition costs of such claims, and a discussion
of the environmental consequences of the extraction of min-
erals from these lands.
FILING OF MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS
SEC. 107. As soon as practicable after enactment of
section 102, a map and a legal description on each wilder-
ness area designated under this title shall be filed by the
Secretary concerned with the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Nat-
ural Resources of the House of Representatives, and each
such map and description shall have the same force and
effect as if included in this title, except that the Secretary
may correct clerical and typographical errors in each such
legal description and map. Each such map and legal de-
scription shall be on file and available for public inspection
in the office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, Department of the Interior, or the Chief of the Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture, as is appropriate.
WILDERNESS REVIEW
SEC. 108. (a) The Congress hereby finds and directs
that except for those areas provided for in subsection (b),
the public lands in the California Desert Conservation
Area, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, not
designated as wilderness or wilderness study areas by this
Act, have been adequately studied for wilderness designation
pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 1782),
and are no longer subject to the requirements of section
603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976 pertaining to the management of wilderness study
areas in a manner that does not impair the suitability of
such areas for preservation as wilderness.
(b) The following areas shall continue to be subject to
the requirements of section 603(c) of the Federal Land Pol-
icy and Management Act of 1976, pertaining to the man-
agement of wilderness study areas in a manner that does
not impair the suitability of such areas for preservation
as wilderness:
(1) Certain lands which comprise approximately
sixty-one thousand three hundred and twenty acres,
as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Avawatz
Mountains Wilderness—Proposed’’, dated May 1991.
(2) Certain lands which comprise approximately
eighty thousand four hundred and thirty acres, as
generally depicted on two maps entitled ‘‘Soda Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed 1’’, dated May 1991, and
‘‘Soda Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 2’’, dated
January 1989.
(3) Certain lands which compromise approxi-
mately twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘South
Avawatz Mountains—Proposed’’, dated May 1991.
(4) Certain lands which comprise approximately
eight thousand eight hundred acres, as generally de-
TITLE II—DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
FINDINGS
SEC. 201. The Congress hereby finds that—
(1) proclamations by Presidents Herbert Hoover
in 1933 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 established
and expanded the Death Valley National Monument
for the preservation of the unusual features of scenic,
scientific, and educational interest therein contained;
(2) Death Valley National Monument is today
recognized as a major unit of the National Park Sys-
tem, having extraordinary values enjoyed by millions
of visitors;
(3) the Monument boundaries established in the
1930’s exclude and thereby expose to incompatible de-
velopment and inconsistent management, contiguous
Federal lands of essential and superlative natural, ec-
ological, geological, archeological, paleontological, cul-
tural, historical and wilderness values;
(4) Death Valley National Monument should be
substantially enlarged by the addition of all contig-
uous Federal lands of national park caliber and af-
forded full recognition and statutory protection as a
national park; and
(5) the wilderness within Death Valley should re-
ceive maximum statutory protection by designation
pursuant to the Wilderness Act.
ESTABLISHMENT OF DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
SEC. 202. There is hereby established the Death Valley
National Park, as generally depicted on 23 maps entitled
‘‘Death Valley National Park Boundary and Wilderness—
Proposed’’, numbered in the title one through twenty-three,
and dated May 1994 or prior, which shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the offices of the Super-
intendent of the Park and the Director of the National Park
Service, Department of the Interior. The Death Valley Na-
tional Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and
interests therein are hereby incorporated within and made
part of the new Death Valley National Park, and any funds
available for purposes of the monument shall be available
for purposes of the park.
TRANSFER AND ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS
SEC. 203. Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary
shall transfer the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau
of Land Management depicted on the maps described in sec-
tion 202 of this title, without consideration, to the adminis-
trative jurisdiction of the Director of the National Park
Service for administration as part of the National Park
System. The boundaries of the public lands and the national
parks shall be adjusted accordingly. The Secretary shall ad-
minister the areas added to the National Park System by
this title in accordance with the provisions of law generally
applicable to units of the National Park System, including
the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to establish a National Park Serv-
ice, and for other purposes’’, approved August 25, 1916 (39
Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1–4).
MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION
SEC. 204. Within six months after the enactment of
this title, the Secretary shall file maps and a legal descrip-
tion of the park designated under this title with the Energy
and Natural Resources Committee of the Senate and the
Natural Resources Committee of the House of Representa-
tives. Such maps and legal description shall have the same
force and effect as if included in this title, except that the
Secretary may correct clerical and typographical errors in
such legal description and in the maps referred to in section
202. The maps and legal description shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the offices of the Super-
intendent of the Park and the Director of the National Park
Service, Department of the Interior.
WITHDRAWAL
SEC. 205. Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal
lands and interests therein added to the National Park Sys-
tem by this title are withdrawn from disposition under the
public land laws and from entry or appropriation under
the mining laws of the United States, from the operation
of the mineral leasing laws of the United States, and from
operation of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970.
STUDY AS TO VALIDITY OF MINING CLAIMS
SEC. 206. The Secretary shall not approve any plan
of operation prior to determining the validity of the
unpatented mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites af-
fected by such plan within the additions to the park and
shall submit to Congress recommendations as to whether
any valid or patented claims should be acquired by the
United States, including the estimated acquisition costs of
such claims, and a discussion of the environmental con-
sequences of the extraction of minerals from these lands.
GRAZING
SEC. 207. (a) The privilege of grazing domestic live-
stock on lands within the park shall continue to be exercised
at no more than the current level, subject to applicable laws
and National Park Service regulations.
(b) If a person holding a grazing permit referred to
in subsection (a) informs the Secretary that such permittee
is willing to convey to the United States any base property
with respect to which such permit was issued and to which
such permittee holds title, the Secretary shall make the ac-
quisition of such base property a priority as compared with
the acquisition of other lands within the park, provided
agreement can be reached concerning the terms and condi-
tions of such acquisition. Any such base property which is
located outside the park and acquired as a priority pursu-
ant to this section shall be managed by the Federal agency
responsible for the majority of the adjacent lands in accord-
ance with the laws applicable to such adjacent lands.
TITLE III—JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK
FINDINGS
SEC. 301. The Congress hereby finds that—
(1) a proclamation by President Franklin Roo-
sevelt in 1936 established Joshua Tree National
Monument to protect various objects of historical and
scientific interest;
(2) Joshua Tree National Monument today is
recognized as a major unit of the National Park Sys-
tem, having extraordinary values enjoyed by millions
of visitors;
(3) the Monument boundaries as modified in
1950 and 1961 exclude and thereby expose to incom-
patible development and inconsistent management,
contiguous Federal lands of essential and superlative
natural, ecological, archeological, paleontological, cul-
tural, historical and wilderness values;
(4) Joshua Tree National Monument should be
enlarged by the addition of contiguous Federal lands
of national park caliber, and afforded full recognition
and statutory protection as a national park; and
(5) the nondesignated wilderness within Joshua
Tree should receive statutory protection by designa-
tion pursuant to the Wilderness Act.
ESTABLISHMENT OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK
SEC. 302. There is hereby established the Joshua Tree
National Park, as generally depicted on a map entitled
‘‘Joshua Tree National Park Boundary—Proposed’’, dated
May 1991, and four maps entitled ‘‘Joshua Tree National
Park Boundary and Wilderness’’, numbered in the title one
through four, and dated October 1991 or prior, which shall
be on file and available for public inspection in the offices
of the Superintendent of the Park and the Director of the
National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The
Joshua Tree National Monument is hereby abolished as
such, the lands and interests therein are hereby incor-
porated within and made part of the new Joshua Tree Na-
tional Park, and any funds available for purposes of the
monument shall be available for purposes of the park.
TRANSFER AND ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS
SEC. 303. Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary
shall transfer the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau
of Land Management depicted on the maps described in sec-
tion 302 of this title, without consideration, to the adminis-
trative jurisdiction of the Director of the National Park
Service for administration as part of the National Park
System. The boundaries of the public lands and the national