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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6155 
To expand the Pajarita Wilderness and designate the Tumacacori Highlands 
Wilderness in Coronado National Forest, Arizona, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 
Mr. GRIJALVA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To expand the Pajarita Wilderness and designate the 
Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness in Coronado National 
Forest, Arizona, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Tumacacori Highlands 
Wilderness Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF PAJARITA WILDERNESS, CORONADO 
NATIONAL FOREST, ARIZONA. 
(a) EXPANSION.—Section 101(a)(17) of the Arizona 
Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–406; 98 Stat. 
1487; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) is amended by inserting after 
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‘‘1984,’’ the following: ‘‘and which comprise approximately 
13,300 acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘Pro-
posed Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness and Pajarita 
Wilderness Addition’ and dated February 18, 2009,’’. 
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.—As soon as 
practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit a copy of the 
map referred to in the amendment made by subsection (a) 
and a legal description of the National Forest System land 
included in the Pajarita Wilderness by the amendment 
with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House 
of Representatives. The map and legal description shall 
have the same force and effect as if included in the Ari-
zona Wilderness Act of 1984, except that the Secretary 
may correct clerical and typographical errors in the map 
and legal description. The map and legal description shall 
be on file and available for public inspection in the appro-
priate offices of the Forest Service. 
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF TUMACACORI HIGHLANDS WIL-
DERNESS, CORONADO NATIONAL FOREST, 
ARIZONA. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—In furtherance of the purposes of 
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), certain lands 
in the Coronado National Forest, Arizona, which comprise 
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approximately 70,000 acres, as generally depicted on a 
map entitled ‘‘Proposed Tumacacori Highlands Wilder-
ness and Pajarita Wilderness Addition’’ and dated Feb-
ruary 18, 2009, are hereby designated as wilderness and, 
therefore, as a component of the National Wilderness 
Preservation System, which shall be known as the 
‘‘Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness’’. 
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.—As soon as 
practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit a copy of the 
map referred to in subsection (a) and a legal description 
of the Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness with the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
and the Committee on Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives. The map and legal description shall have the 
same force and effect as if included in this Act, except 
that the Secretary may correct clerical and typographical 
errors in the map and legal description. The map and legal 
description shall be on file and available for public inspec-
tion in the appropriate offices of the Forest Service. 
SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS. 
(a) COVERED WILDERNESS AREAS.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘covered wilderness area’’ means— 
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(1) the National Forest System land included in 
the Pajarita Wilderness by the amendment made by 
section 2(a); and 
(2) the Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness des-
ignated by section 3(a). 
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall manage the covered wilderness area in accordance 
with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this 
section, except that, with respect to a covered wilderness 
area, any reference in the Wilderness Act to the effective 
date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a ref-
erence to the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(c) VALID EXISTING RIGHTS.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall affect any valid existing right. 
(d) BUFFER ZONES.—As provided in section 101(d) 
of the Arizona Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98– 
406; 98 Stat. 1488), Congress does not intend that des-
ignation of a covered wilderness area lead to the creation 
of protective perimeters or buffer zones around the cov-
ered wilderness area. The fact that nonwilderness activi-
ties or uses can be seen or heard from areas within a cov-
ered wilderness area shall not, of itself, preclude such ac-
tivities or uses up to the boundary of the covered wilder-
ness area. 
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