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Union Calendar No. 72 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 539 
[Report No. 109–126] 
To designate certain National Forest System land in the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico as components of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 2, 2005 
Mr. FORTUN˜O
(for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. SERRANO, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mr. GUTIERREZ) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Resources 
JUNE 14, 2005 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 2, 2005] 
A BILL 
To designate certain National Forest System land in the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as components 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 For-
est 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 ap-
proximately 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 Wilder-
ness.
(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 de-
scription to the Committee on Energy and Nat-
ural 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 
(B) shall have the same force and effect as 
if included in this Act. 
(3) ERRORS.—The Secretary may correct clerical 
and typographical errors in the map and the bound-
ary 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 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 ref-
erence to the date of the enactment 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 essen-
tial to the scientific research purposes of the Luquillo Ex-
perimental Forest. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to designate 
certain National Forest System land in the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico as a component of the National 
Wilderness Preservation System.’’.
Union Calendar No. 72 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 539 
[Report No. 109–126] 
A BILL 
To designate certain National Forest System land 
in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as compo-
nents of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System. 
JUNE 14, 2005 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed