(B) Blue Range (also in Arizona). 
(20) North Carolina: 
(A) Citico Creek (also in Tennessee), in-
cluding Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock. 
(B) Southern Nantahala (also in Georgia). 
(21) Oklahoma: 
(A) Upper Kiamichi (also in Arkansas). 
(22) Oregon: 
(A) Hells Canyon, including Hells Canyon 
(also in Idaho) and Eagle Cap. 
(23) Pennsylvania: 
(A) Hickory Creek. 
(24) South Dakota: 
(A) Black Elk. 
(25) Tennessee: 
(A) Cohutta including Big Frog (also in 
Georgia). 
(B) Citico Creek including Joyce Kilmer-
Slickrock (also in North Carolina). 
(26) Texas: 
(A) Upland Island. 
(B) Indian Mounds. 
(27) Utah: 
(A) High Uintas. 
(28) Vermont:
(A) Breadloaf. 
(B) Lyle Brook. 
(29) Virginia: 
(A) Mountain Lake (also in West Vir-
ginia). 
(30) Washington: 
(A) North Cascades including Glacier 
Peak, Pasayten, Lake Chelan-Sawtooth, Mt. 
Baker, and Noisy Diobsud. 
(31) West Virginia: 
(A) Cranberry. 
(B) Mountain Lake (also in Virginia). 
(32) Wisconsin: 
(A) Headwaters. 
(33) 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. 
SEC. 8. DELINEATION OF PRIMITIVE AREAS ON EASTERN 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS. 
(a) DELINEATION REQUIRED; TIMETABLE.—In the 
case of units of the National Forest System located east
of the 104th meridian in the contiguous 48 States, the 
Secretary shall delineate primitive areas around core wil-
derness areas as soon as practicable, but in no case more 
than three years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, as an amendment to the applicable land and resource 
management plan. 
(b) CONTENT.—The primitive areas delineated under 
this section shall include all areas from the wilderness 
boundary out to the nearest improved roads on all sides 
of the wilderness area and enough additional acreage to 
result in an Ecosystem Protection Area that is at least 
50,000 acres and twice as large as the core wilderness 
area. In all cases, the primitive area shall be as compact 
as possible and designed to include as many natural com-
munities as possible, including mountains, valleys, and 
other natural areas. 
(c) SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS.—In delineating the 
primitive areas, the Secretary shall exclude as many resi-
dential areas as possible. Along national or State des-
ignated trails, such as the Appalachian Trail, or natural 
biological corridors, the Secretary shall extend the primi-
tive areas further in each direction from the core wilder-
ness area. 
(d) ROADS.—The Secretary shall begin closing 
unmapped roads, temporary roads, and unimproved cher-
ry-stemmed roads in a primitive area as soon as prac-
ticable after the primitive area has been delineated, unless 
such roads provide access to private property. 
(e) GRAZING.—Any commercial grazing permitted, as 
of the date of the enactment of this Act, in the primitive 
areas delineated under this section shall be phased out as 
provided in section 5. 
SEC. 9. DELINEATION OF PRIMITIVE AREAS ON WESTERN 
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS. 
In the case of an Ecosystem Protection Areas located 
west of the 104th meridian, the Secretary shall identify 
every grazing allotment that is partially within a core wil-
derness area, and the portions of those allotments located 
outside of the core wilderness area shall be the primitive 
areas for that Ecosystem Protection Area. 
SEC. 10. COMPATIBLE MANAGEMENT OF ADJACENT DE-
PARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LANDS. 
Federal lands administered by the Secretary of the 
Interior that are adjacent to the Ecosystem Protection 
Areas shall be managed in a manner compatible with the 
management of the Ecosystem Protection Areas. 
SEC. 11. DEVELOPMENT OF STATE ECOSYSTEM PROTEC-
TION AREAS. 
The Secretary shall provide technical and financial 
assistance to enable States to acquire an Ecosystem Pro-
tection Area on State-owned lands of a similar character 
and size to the Ecosystem Protection Areas designated by 
this Act. Such State Ecosystem Protection Areas shall be 
based on one of the largest State-owned Natural Areas, 
Wilderness Areas, State Parks, State Forests, State Wa-
tershed Management Areas, or State Wildlife Management 
Areas in any State without a National Forest or Grassland 
of 50,000 or more acres. 
SEC. 12. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) INFORMATION
ON
ECOSYSTEM
PROTECTION 
AREAS.—As part of the annual report to Congress pre-
pared by the Secretary on the status of the National Wil-
derness Preservation System, the Secretary shall include 
appropriate information concerning the Ecosystem Protec-
tion Areas and the administration of this Act. 
(b) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR FIFTH REPORT.—
The annual report described in subsection (a) to be sub-
mitted to Congress in the fifth year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act shall contain the following: 
(1) An assessment and evaluation of all steps 
taken during the four preceding years pursuant to 
this Act. 
(2) Recommendations regarding the designation 
of additional or the expansion of existing Ecosystem 
Management Areas.
(3) An evaluation of the effectiveness of the 
procedures for creating grazing free areas and the 
environmental advantages created in those areas. 
(4) Recommendations regarding whether the 
procedures evaluated under paragraph (3) should be 
extended to all Forest Service wilderness areas. 
SEC. 13. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) LAND
ACQUISITION
IN
EASTERN
UNITED 
STATES.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary for each of the fiscal years 2004 through 2017 
$100,000,000 for the purchase of private lands and other 
lands not owned by the United States located in primitive 
areas delineated east of the 104th meridian in the contig-
uous 48 States. Pending the delineation of primitive areas 
under section 8, the Secretary shall purchase lands in 
areas that the Secretary anticipates including in the Eco-
system Protection Areas. 
(b) LAND ACQUISITION IN WESTERN WILDERNESS 
AREAS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary for each of the fiscal years 2004 through 2017 
$5,000,000 for the purchase of private lands and other 
lands not owned by the United States in the Wilderness 
Areas located west of the 104th meridian in the contig-
uous 48 States.
(c) ELIMINATION OF GRAZING.—There is authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary for each of the fiscal 
years 2004 through 2017 $1,000,000 for the purpose of 
carrying out section 5, including providing economic tran-
sition payments, early-out payments, and qualifying base 
property purchase payments and covering Forest Service 
expenses in finding an allotee a new allotment, when re-
quested by the allotee. 
(d) SUPPORT FOR STATES WITHOUT ECOSYSTEM 
PROTECTION AREAS.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated to the Secretary for each of the fiscal years 2004 
through 2017 $33,000,000 to assist States in the pur-
chase of private lands in a State designated Ecosystem 
Protection Area developed pursuant to section 11 if the 
State agrees to manage that area in a manner similar to 
that proposed for Ecosystem Protection Areas designated 
in this Act.
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