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(f) The Secretary is prohibited from advertising,
offering or awarding any timber sale within the study
area for a period of two years after the date of enactment
of this section.
(g) Nothing in this section shall in any way affect
any State or Federal law governing appropriation, use of
or Federal right to water on flowing through National
Forest System lands. Nothing in this section is intended
to influence the relative strength of competing claims to
the waters of the Little Sandy River. Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to expand or diminish Federal,
State, or local jurisdiction, responsibility, interests, or
rights in water resources development or control, includ-
ing rights in and current uses of water resources in the
unit.
SEC. 606. Lands within the Bull Run Manage-
ment Unit, as defined in Public Law 95–200, but not
contained within the Bull Run River Drainage, as defined
by this title and as depicted on the map dated July 1996
described in Section 604 of this title, shall continue to be
managed in accordance with Public Law 95–200.
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TITLE VII—OREGON ISLANDS
WILDERNESS, ADDITIONS
SEC. 701. OREGON ISLANDS WILDERNESS, ADDITIONS.
(a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilder-
ness Act of 1964, certain lands within the boundaries of
the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon,
comprising approximately ninety-five acres and as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Oregon Island Wilder-
ness Additions—Proposed’’ dated August 1996, are here-
by designated as wilderness. The map shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the offices of the Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.
(b) All other federally owned named, unnamed,
surveyed and unsurveyed rocks, reefs, islets and islands
lying within three goegraphic miles off the coast of Or-
egon and above mean high tide, not currently designated
as wilderness and also within the Oregon Islands Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge boundaries under the administra-
tion of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, De-
partment of the Interior, as designated by Executive
Order 7035, Proclamation 2416, Public Land Orders
4395, 4475 and 6287, and Public Laws 91–504 and 95–
450, are hereby designated as wilderness.
(c) All federally owned named, unnamed, surveyed
and unsurveyed rocks, reefs, islets and islands lying with-
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in three geographic miles off the coast of Oregon and
above mean high tide, and presently under the jurisdic-
tion of the Bureau of Land Management, except Chiefs
Island, are hereby designated as wilderness, shall become
part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge and
the Oregon Island Wilderness and shall be under the ju-
risdiction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior.
(d) As soon as practicable after this title takes ef-
fect, a map of the wilderness area and a description of
its boundaries shall be filed with the Senate Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Com-
mittee on Resources, and such map shall have the same
force and effect as if included in this title: Provided how-
ever, That correcting clerical and typographical errors in
the map and land descriptions may be made.
(e) Public Land Order 6287 of June 16, 1982,
which withdrew certain rocks, reefs, islets and islands
lying within three geographical miles off the coast of Or-
egon and above mean high tide, including the ninety-five
acres described in subsection (a), as an addition to the
Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge is hereby made
permanent.
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TITLE VIII—UMPQUA RIVER
LAND EXCHANGE STUDY
SEC. 801. UMPQUA RIVER LAND EXCHANGE STUDY: POLICY
AND DIRECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries of the Interior
and Agriculture (Secretaries) are hereby authorized and
directed to consult, coordinate, and cooperate with the
Umpqua Land Exchange Project (ULEP), affected units
and agencies of State and local government, and, as ap-
propriate, the World Forestry Center and National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation, to assist ULEP’s ongoing ef-
forts in studying and analyzing land exchange opportuni-
ties in the Umpqua River Basin and to provide scientific,
technical, research, mapping and other assistance and in-
formation to such entities. Such consultation, coordina-
tion, and cooperation shall at a minimum include, but not
be limited to:
(1) working with ULEP to develop or assemble
comprehensive scientific and other information (in-
cluding comprehensive and integrated mapping) con-
cerning the Umpqua River Basin’s resources of for-
est, plants, wildlife, fisheries (anadromous and
other), recreational opportunities, wetlands, riparian
habitat, and other physical or natural resources;
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(2) working with ULEP to identify general or
specific areas within the basin where land exchanges
could promote consolidation of forestland ownership
for long-term, sustained timber production; protec-
tion and restoration of habitat for plants, fish, and
wildlife (including any federally listed threatened or
endangered species); protection of drinking water
supplies; recovery of threatened and endangered spe-
cies; protection and restoration of wetlands, riparian
lands, and other environmentally sensitive areas;
consolidation of land ownership for improved public
access and a broad array of recreational uses; and
consolidation of land ownership to achieve manage-
ment efficiency and reduced costs of administration;
and
(3) developing a joint report for submission to
the Congress which discusses land exchange oppor-
tunities in the basin and outlines either a specific
land exchange proposal or proposals which may
merit consideration by the Secretaries or the Con-
gress, or ideas and recommendations for new au-
thorizations, direction, or changes in existing law or
policy to expedite and facilitate the consummation of
beneficial land exchanges in the basin via adminis-
trative means.
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(b) MATTERS FOR SPECIFIC STUDY.—In analyz-
ing land exchange opportunities with ULEP, the Sec-
retaries shall give priority to assisting ULEP’s ongoing
efforts in:
(1) studying, identifying, and mapping areas
where the consolidation of land ownership via land
exchanges could promote the goals of long term spe-
cies and watershed protection and utilization, includ-
ing but not limited to the goals of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 more effectively than current
land ownership patterns and whether any changes in
law or policy applicable to such lands after con-
summation of an exchange would be advisable or
necessary to achieve such goals;
(2) studying, identifying and mapping areas
where land exchanges might be utilized to better sat-
isfy the goals of sustainable timber harvest, includ-
ing studying whether changes in existing law or pol-
icy applicable to such lands after consummation of
an exchange would be advisable or necessary to
achieve such goals;
(3) identifying issues and studying options and
alternatives, including possible changes in existing
law or policy, to insure that combined post-exchange
revenues to units of local government from State