109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 539
AN ACT 
To designate certain National Forest System land 
in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as a com-
ponent of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System.
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 539
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 Representa-
tives 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 Pro-
posed 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 pur-
poses 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 gen-
erally depicted on the map are designated as wilder-
ness 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 Wilder-
ness.
(3) WILDERNESS BOUNDARIES.—The El Toro 
Wilderness shall consist of the land generally de-
picted 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 de-
scription to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural Resources of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Resources of the House of Represent-
atives. 
(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 For-
est Service; and 
(B) shall have the same force and effect as 
if included in this Act. 
(3) ERRORS.—The Secretary may correct cler-
ical and typographical errors in the map and the
boundary description prepared under paragraph 
(1)(A). 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to valid existing 
rights, the Secretary 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 ref-
erence 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 enact-
ment of this Act. 
(d) SPECIAL MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS.—Con-
sistent with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), 
nothing in this Act precludes the installation and mainte-
nance of hydrologic, meteorological, climatological, or at-
mospheric data collection and remote transmission facili-
ties, or any combination of those facilities, in any case in 
which the Secretary determines that the facilities are es-
sential to the scientific research purposes of the Luquillo 
Experimental Forest.
Passed the House of Representatives September 13, 
2005. 
Attest:
Clerk.