H. R. 539
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and five 
An Act 
To designate certain National Forest System land in the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Caribbean National Forest Act 
of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) MAP.—The term ‘‘map’’ means the map dated April 
13, 2004, and entitled ‘‘El Toro Proposed Wilderness Area’’. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Agriculture. 
SEC. 3. WILDERNESS DESIGNATION, CARIBBEAN NATIONAL FOREST, 
PUERTO RICO. 
(a) EL TORO WILDERNESS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In furtherance of the purposes of the 
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the approximately 
10,000 acres of land in the Caribbean National Forest/Luquillo 
Experimental Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as 
generally depicted on the map are designated as wilderness 
and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—The land designated in paragraph (1) 
shall be known as the El Toro Wilderness. 
(3) WILDERNESS
BOUNDARIES.—The El Toro Wilderness 
shall consist of the land generally depicted on the map. 
(b) MAP AND BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall—
(A) prepare a boundary description of the El Toro 
Wilderness; and 
(B) submit the map and the boundary description to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of 
Representatives. 
(2) PUBLIC
INSPECTION
AND
TREATMENT.—The map and 
the boundary description prepared under paragraph (1)(A)—
(A) shall be on file and available for public inspection 
in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service; and
H. R. 539—2
(B) shall have the same force and effect as if included 
in this Act. 
(3) ERRORS.—The Secretary may correct clerical and typo-
graphical errors in the map and the boundary description pre-
pared under paragraph (1)(A). 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, the Sec-
retary shall administer the El Toro Wilderness in accordance 
with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this 
Act. 
(2) EFFECTIVE
DATE
OF
WILDERNESS
ACT.—With respect 
to the El Toro Wilderness, any reference in the Wilderness 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) to the effective date of that Act 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
(d) SPECIAL MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS.—Consistent with 
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), nothing in this Act 
precludes the installation and maintenance of hydrologic, meteoro-
logical, climatological, or atmospheric data collection and remote 
transmission facilities, or any combination of those facilities, in 
any case in which the Secretary determines that the facilities 
are essential to the scientific research purposes of the Luquillo 
Experimental Forest.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.