(8) To establish a reserve for redband trout and
a wildlands juniper management area.
(9) To establish a citizens’ management advi-
sory council for the Cooperative Management and
Protection Area.
(10) To maintain and enhance cooperative and
innovative management practices between the public
and private land managers in the Cooperative Man-
agement and Protection Area.
(11) To promote viable and sustainable grazing
and recreation operations on private and public
lands.
(12) To conserve, protect, and manage for
healthy watersheds and the long-term ecological in-
tegrity of Steens Mountain.
(13) To authorize only such uses on Federal
lands in the Cooperative Management and Protec-
tion Area that are consistent with the purposes of
this Act.
(c) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; purposes; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 3. Maps and legal descriptions.
Sec. 4. Valid existing rights.
Sec. 5. Protection of tribal rights.
TITLE I—STEENS MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AND
PROTECTION AREA
Subtitle A—Designation and Purposes
Sec. 101. Designation of Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Pro-
tection Area.
Sec. 102. Purpose and objectives of Cooperative Management and protection
Area.
Subtitle B—Management of Federal Lands
Sec. 111. Management authorities and purposes.
Sec. 112. Roads and travel access.
Sec. 113. Land use authorities.
Sec. 114. Land acquisition authority.
Sec. 115. Special use permits.
Subtitle C—Cooperative Management
Sec. 121. Cooperative management agreements.
Sec. 122. Cooperative efforts to control development and encourage conserva-
tion.
Subtitle D—Advisory Council
Sec. 131. Establishment of advisory council.
Sec. 132. Advisory role in management activities.
Sec. 133. Science committee.
TITLE II—STEENS MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS AREA
Sec. 201. Designation of Steens Mountain Wilderness Area.
Sec. 202. Administration of Wilderness Area.
Sec. 203. Water rights.
Sec. 204. Treatment of wilderness study areas.
TITLE III—WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS AND TROUT RESERVE
Sec. 301. Designation of streams for wild and scenic river status in Steens
Mountain area.
Sec. 302. Donner und Blitzen River redband trout reserve.
TITLE IV—MINERAL WITHDRAWAL AREA
Sec. 401. Designation of mineral withdrawal area.
Sec. 402. Treatment of State lands and mineral interests.
TITLE V—ESTABLISHMENT OF WILDLANDS JUNIPER
MANAGEMENT AREA
Sec. 501. Wildlands juniper management area.
Sec. 502. Release from wilderness study area status.
TITLE VI—LAND EXCHANGES
Sec. 601. Land exchange, Roaring Springs Ranch.
Sec. 602. Land exchanges, C.M. Otley and Otley Brothers.
Sec. 603. Land exchange, Tom J. Davis Livestock, Incorporated.
Sec. 604. Land exchange, Lowther (Clemens) Ranch.
Sec. 605. General provisions applicable to land exchanges.
TITLE VII—FUNDING AUTHORITIES
Sec. 701. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 702. Use of land and water conservation fund.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) ADVISORY COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘advisory
council’’ means the Steens Mountain Advisory Coun-
cil established by title IV.
(2) 
COOPERATIVE
MANAGEMENT
AGREE-
MENT.—An agreement to plan or implement (or
both) cooperative recreation, ecological, grazing,
fishery, vegetation, prescribed fire, cultural site pro-
tection, wildfire or other measures to beneficially
meet public use needs and the public land and pri-
vate land objectives of this Act.
(3) COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AND PROTEC-
TION AREA.—The term ‘‘Cooperative Management
and Protection Area’’ means the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection Area des-
ignated by title I.
(4) EASEMENTS.—
(A) 
CONSERVATION
EASEMENT.—The
term ‘‘conservation easement’’ means a binding
contractual agreement between the Secretary
and a landowner in the Cooperative Manage-
ment and Protection Area under which the
landowner, permanently or during a time period
specified in the agreement, agrees to conserve
or restore habitat, open space, scenic, or other
ecological resource values on the land covered
by the easement.
(B) NONDEVELOPMENT EASEMENT.—The
term ‘‘nondevelopment easement’’ means a
binding contractual agreement between the Sec-
retary and a landowner in the Cooperative Man-
agement and Protection Area that will, perma-
nently or during a time period specified in the
agreement—
(i) prevent or restrict development on
the land covered by the easement; or
(ii) protect open space or viewshed.
(5) ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY.—The term ‘‘eco-
logical integrity’’ means a landscape where ecological
processes are functioning to maintain the structure,
composition, activity, and resilience of the landscape
over time, including—
(A) a complex of plant communities, habi-
tats and conditions representative of variable
and sustainable successional conditions; and
(B) the maintenance of biological diversity,
soil fertility, and genetic interchange.
(6) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term ‘‘manage-
ment plan’’ means the management plan for the Co-
operative Management and Protection Area and the
Wilderness Area required to be prepared by section
111(b).
(7) REDBAND
TROUT
RESERVE.—The term
‘‘Redband Trout Reserve’’ means the Donner und
Blitzen Redband Trout Reserve designated by sec-
tion 302.
(8) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bu-
reau of Land Management.
(9) SCIENCE COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘science
committee’’ means the committee of independent sci-
entists appointed under section 133.
(10) WILDERNESS AREA.—The term ‘‘Wilder-
ness Area’’ means the Steens Mountain Wilderness
Area designated by title II.
SEC. 3. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.
(a) PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION.—As soon as
practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Secretary shall prepare and submit to Congress maps
and legal descriptions of the following:
(1) The Cooperative Management and Protec-
tion Area.
(2) The Wilderness Area.
(3) The wild and scenic river segments and
redband trout reserve designated by title III.
(4) The mineral withdrawal area designated by
title IV.
(5) The wildlands juniper management area es-
tablished by title V.
(6) The land exchanges required by title VI.
(b) LEGAL EFFECT AND CORRECTION.—The maps
and legal descriptions referred to in subsection (a) shall
have the same force and effect as if included in this Act,
except the Secretary may correct clerical and typo-
graphical errors in such maps and legal descriptions.
(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Copies of the maps and
legal descriptions referred to in subsection (a) shall be on
file and available for public inspection in the Office of the
Director of the Bureau of Land Management and in the
appropriate office of the Bureau of Land Management in
the State of Oregon.
SEC. 4. VALID EXISTING RIGHTS.
Nothing in this Act shall effect any valid existing
right.
SEC. 5. PROTECTION OF TRIBAL RIGHTS.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish
the rights of any Indian tribe. Nothing in this Act shall