(7) New Jersey: Waywayanda Highlands, in-
cluding Waywayanda State Park (also in New 
York). 
(8) New York: Bob Marshal Great Wilderness, 
including Five Ponds Wilderness and Pigeon Lake 
Wilderness. 
(9) Rhode Island: Arcadia-Pachaug, including 
Arcadia Wildlife Management Area and Pachaug 
State Forest (also in Connecticut). 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—An Ecosystem Protection 
Area acquired by a State using financial assistance pro-
vided under subsection (a) shall be administered by the 
State pursuant to this Act and State law. 
SEC. 12. AVAILABILITY OF FOREST SERVICE FUNDS AND 
COOPERATION WITH LAND TRUSTS. 
To carry out this Act. the Secretary may allocate 
funds otherwise available for the Forest Service. The Sec-
retary may cooperate with land trusts and other private 
parties dedicated to the preservation of open space to ac-
quire property authorized for purchase by this Act, includ-
ing base properties and mineral rights, and to retire graz-
ing permits. 
SEC. 13. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) INFORMATION
ON
ECOSYSTEM
PROTECTION 
AREAS.—As part of the annual report to Congress pre-
pared by the Secretary on the status of the National Wil-
derness Preservation System, the Secretary shall include 
appropriate information concerning the Ecosystem Protec-
tion Areas and the administration of this Act. 
(b) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR FIFTH REPORT.— 
The annual report described in subsection (a) to be sub-
mitted to Congress in the fifth year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act shall contain the following: 
(1) An assessment and evaluation of all steps 
taken during the four preceding years pursuant to 
this Act. 
(2) Recommendations regarding the designation 
of additional or the expansion of existing Ecosystem 
Management Areas. 
(3) An evaluation of the effectiveness of the 
procedures for creating grazing free areas and the 
environmental advantages created in those areas. 
(4) Recommendations regarding whether the 
procedures evaluated under paragraph (3) should be 
extended to all Forest Service wilderness areas. 
SEC. 14. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) LAND
ACQUISITION
IN
EASTERN
UNITED 
STATES.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2019 
through 2017 $100,000,000 for the purchase of private
lands and other lands not owned by the United States lo-
cated in primitive areas delineated east of the 104th me-
ridian in the contiguous 48 States. Pending the delinea-
tion of primitive areas under section 8, the Secretary shall 
purchase lands in areas that the Secretary anticipates in-
cluding in the Ecosystem Protection Areas. 
(b) LAND ACQUISITION IN WESTERN WILDERNESS 
AREAS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary for each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2019 
$5,000,000 for the purchase of private lands and other 
lands not owned by the United States in the Wilderness 
Areas located west of the 104th meridian in the contig-
uous 48 States. 
(c) ELIMINATION OF GRAZING.—There is authorized 
to be appropriated to the Secretary for each of the fiscal 
years 2006 through 2019 $2,000,000 for the purpose of 
carrying out section 5. 
(d) SUPPORT FOR STATES WITHOUT FEDERAL ECO-
SYSTEM PROTECTION AREAS.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary for each of the fiscal years 
2006 through 2019 $33,000,000 to assist States in the 
purchase of private lands in a State Ecosystem Protection 
Area developed pursuant to section 11. 
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