San Juan River .........................................................
13,200
Squaw and Cross Canyons Wilderness:
Squaw and Papoose Canyons ....................................
6,580
Cross Canyon ............................................................
1,000
Dark Canyon Wilderness:
Dark Canyon .............................................................
126,500
Sheep Canyon ............................................................
3,700
Glen Canyon Wilderness:
Mancos Mesa .............................................................
108,700
Little Rockies ............................................................
60,000
SEC. 108. CANYONLANDS WILDERNESS AREAS.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that Arches and
Canyonlands National Parks safeguard only a small por-
tion of the extraordinary red-hued, cliff-walled canyonland
region of the Colorado Plateau. Canyons with rushing pe-
rennial streams, natural arches, bridges, and towers, and
the gorges of the Green, Colorado, and Dolores Rivers lie
on adjacent wildlands managed by the Secretary through
the Bureau of Land Management. Designation of this wil-
derness achieves a wholeness of protection for this
erosional masterpiece of nature and the rich pockets of
wildlife found within its expanded boundaries.
(b) DESIGNATION.—In order to protect and manage
so as to preserve the canyonland wilderness areas near
Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and in further-
ance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C.
1131 et seq.), the following lands in the State of Utah
are hereby designated as wilderness and therefore as com-
ponents of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
Approximate
Name of Wilderness Area and Unit
Acreage
Canyonlands Basin Wilderness:
Bridger Jack Mesa ....................................................
32,700
Butler Wash ..............................................................
28,300
Goose Neck ................................................................
8,300
Harts Point ...............................................................
62,800
Indian Creek ..............................................................
27,000
Shafer Canyon ...........................................................
3,000
Labyrinth Wilderness:
Labyrinth Canyon .....................................................
120,000
Horseshoe Canyon .....................................................
51,700
Arches-Lost Spring Wilderness .................................
16,900
La Sal Canyons Wilderness:
Beaver Creek .............................................................
28,200
Fisher Towers ...........................................................
15,100
Granite Creek ............................................................
5,100
Mary Jane Canyon ....................................................
24,200
Mill Creek ..................................................................
15,700
Negro Bill Canyon .....................................................
20,600
Seweump Mesa ..........................................................
600
Behind-The-Rocks Wilderness:
Hunter Canyon ..........................................................
4,000
Goldbar Canyon .........................................................
12,500
Hatch Wash ..............................................................
14,300
Behind-The-Rocks .....................................................
20,300
Westwater Wilderness:
Black Ridge ...............................................................
5,100
Westwater Canyon .....................................................
32,500
SEC. 109. SAN RAFAEL SWELL WILDERNESS AREAS.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that the San
Rafael Swell towers above the desert like a wilderness cas-
tle, ringed by thousand-foot ramparts of Navajo Sand-
stone. Its highlands have been fractured by uplift and
scooped hollow by erosion over countless millennia, leaving
a tremendous basin punctuated by mesas, buttes, and can-
yons and traversed by sediment-laden desert streams.
Among other places, the San Rafael wilderness offers ex-
ceptional back country opportunities in the colorful Wild
Horse Badlands, the monoliths of North Caineville Mesa,
the rock towers of Cliff Wash, and the dark volcanic
mountains bordering Capitol Reef National Park. The
mountains within this wilderness are among Utah’s most
productive habitat for Desert Bighorn Sheep.
(b) DESIGNATION.—In order to protect and manage
so as to preserve the San Rafael Swell wilderness areas
and in furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following lands in the State
of Utah are hereby designated as wilderness and therefore
as components of the National Wilderness Preservation
System:
Approximate
Name of Wilderness Area and Unit
Acreage
San Rafael Wilderness:
Cedar Mountain ................................................................
14,500
Devils Canyon ...................................................................
21,500
Hondu Country .................................................................
18,900
Jones Bench ......................................................................
2,800
Limestone Cliffs ................................................................
21,300
Mexican Mountain .............................................................
102,600
Muddy Creek .....................................................................
246,300
Mussentuchit Badlands .....................................................
23,000
Red Desert ........................................................................
36,800
San Rafael Reef ................................................................
95,000
Sids Mountain ...................................................................
95,800
Upper Muddy Creek ..........................................................
17,000
Wild Horse Mesa ..............................................................
57,400
SEC. 110. BOOK CLIFFS AND UINTA BASIN WILDERNESS
AREAS.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that the Book
Cliffs and Uinta Basin wilderness areas offer a unique
quality of wilderness big game hunting opportunities in
verdant high-plateau forests, multi-day float trips down
the Green River in Desolation Canyon, and opportunity
for calm water canoe weekends on the White River. The
long rampart of the Book Cliffs bounds the area on the
south, while seldom-visited uplands, dissected by the rivers
and streams, slope away to the north into the Uinta Basin.
Bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, bear, and cougar all flour-
ish in the back country of the Book Cliffs.
(b) DESIGNATION.—In order to protect and manage
so as to preserve the Book Cliffs area and in furtherance
of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131
et seq.), the following lands in the State of Utah are here-
by designated as wilderness and therefore as components
of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
Approximate
Name of Wilderness Area and Unit
Acreage
Desolation Canyon Wilderness:
Eastern Book Cliffs ...................................................
154,600
Desolation Canyon ....................................................
527,100
Turtle Canyon ...........................................................
36,900
White River Wilderness .............................................
9,700
Greater Dinosaur Wilderness:
Bull Canyon ...............................................................
500
Diamond Breaks .......................................................
7,800
Daniels Canyon .........................................................
5,300
Moonshine Draw .......................................................
3,500
Cold Springs Mountain .............................................
3,400
Wild Mountain ...........................................................
600
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATIVE
PROVISIONS
SEC. 201. ADMINISTRATION.
Subject to valid existing rights, the wilderness areas
designated under this Act shall be administered by the
Secretary in accordance with section 603 of the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1782) and the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing
areas designated by that Act as wilderness.
SEC. 202. WATER.
(a) RESERVATION.—(1) With respect to each wilder-
ness area designated by this Act, Congress hereby reserves
a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes of this
Act. The priority date of such reserved rights shall be the
date of enactment of this Act.
(2) The Secretary and all other officers of the United
States shall take all steps necessary to protect the rights
reserved by paragraph (1), including the filing by the Sec-
retary of a claim for the quantification of such rights in
any present or future appropriate stream adjudication in
the courts of the State of Utah in which the United States
is or may be joined and which is conducted in accordance
with section 208 of the Act of July 10, 1952 (66 Stat.
56; 44 U.S.C. 666, commonly referred to as the
‘‘McCarran Act’’).
(b) PRIOR RIGHTS NOT AFFECTED.—Nothing in this
Act shall be construed as a relinquishment or reduction
of any water rights reserved or appropriated by the United
States in the State of Utah on or before the date of enact-
ment of this Act.
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The Federal water
rights reserved by this Act are specific to the wilderness
areas located in the State of Utah designated by this Act.
Nothing in this Act related to reserved Federal water shall
be construed as establishing a precedent with regard to
any future designations, nor shall it constitute an interpre-
tation of any other Act or any designation made pursuant
thereto.
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