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ulations under which they were issued, to the extent con-
sistent with this Act. Such authorizations shall be admin-
istered by the Secretary of Agriculture. Any renewal or
extension of such authorizations shall be subject to the
laws and regulations pertaining to the Forest Service, De-
partment of Agriculture, and the applicable law, including
this Act. The change of administrative jurisdiction result-
ing from the enactment of this subsection shall not in it-
self constitute a basis for denying or approving the re-
newal or reissuance of any such authorization.
SEC. 4. WILDERNESS RELEASE.
(a) REPEAL OF WILDERNESS STUDY PROVISIONS.—
Sections 105 and 106 of the Act of December 22, 1980
(Public Law 96–560), are hereby repealed.
(b) INITIAL PLANS.—Section 107(b)(2) of the Act of
December 22, 1980 (Public Law 96–560), is amended by
striking out ‘‘, except those lands remaining in further
planning upon enactment of this Act, areas listed in sec-
tion 105 and 106 of this Act, or previously congressionally
designated wilderness study areas,’’.
SEC. 5. FOSSIL RIDGE RECREATION MANAGEMENT AREA.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) In order to conserve, pro-
tect, and enhance the scenic, wildlife, recreational, and
other natural resource values of the Fossil Ridge area,
there is hereby established the Fossil Ridge Recreation
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Management Area (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘recre-
ation management area’’).
(2) The recreation management area shall consist of
certain lands in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gun-
nison National Forests, Colorado, which comprise approxi-
mately 43,900 acres as generally depicted as ‘‘Area A’’
on a map entitled, ‘‘Fossil Ridge Wilderness Proposal’’,
dated January, 1993.
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of Agriculture
shall administer the recreation management area in ac-
cordance with this section and the laws and regulations
generally applicable to the National Forest System.
(c) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights,
all lands within the recreation management area are here-
by withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or
disposal under the public land laws, from location, entry,
and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition
under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including
all amendments thereto.
(d) TIMBER HARVESTING.—No timber harvesting
shall be allowed within the recreation management area
except for any minimum necessary to protect the forest
from insects and disease, and for public safety.
(e) LIVESTOCK GRAZING.—The designation of the
recreation management area shall not be construed to pro-
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hibit, or change the administration of, the grazing of live-
stock within the recreation management area.
(f) DEVELOPMENT.—No developed campgrounds
shall be constructed within the recreation management
area. After the date of enactment of this Act, no new roads
or trails may be constructed within the recreation manage-
ment area.
(g) OFF-ROAD RECREATION.—Motorized travel shall
be permitted within the recreation management area only
on those designated trails and routes existing as of July
1, 1991.
SEC. 6. BOWEN GULCH PROTECTION AREA.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) There is hereby estab-
lished in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, the
Bowen Gulch Protection Area (hereinafter in this Act re-
ferred to as the ‘‘protection area’’).
(2) The protection area shall consist of certain lands
in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, which comprise
approximately 11,600 acres as generally depicted as ‘‘Area
A’’ on a map entitled ‘‘Bowen Gulch Additions to Never
Summer Wilderness Proposal’’, dated January, 1993.
(b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary shall admin-
ister the protection area in accordance with this section
and the laws and regulations generally applicable to the
National Forest System.
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(c) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights,
all lands within the protection area are hereby withdrawn
from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under
the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent
under the mining laws, and from disposition under the
mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including all amend-
ments thereto.
(d) DEVELOPMENT.—No developed campgrounds
shall be constructed within the protection area. After the
date of enactment of this Act, no new roads or trails may
be constructed within the protection area.
(e) TIMBER HARVESTING.—No timber harvesting
shall be allowed within the protection area except for any
minimum necessary to protect the forest from insects and
disease, and for public safety.
(f) MOTORIZED TRAVEL.—Motorized travel shall be
permitted within the protection area only on those des-
ignated trails and routes existing as of July 1, 1991, and
only during periods of adequate snow cover. At all other
times, mechanized, non-motorized travel shall be per-
mitted within the protection area.
(g) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—During the preparation of
the revision of the Land and Resource Management Plan
for the Arapaho National Forest, the Forest Service shall
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develop a management plan for the protection area, after
providing for public consultation.
SEC. 7. OTHER LANDS.
Nothing in this Act shall affect ownership or use of
lands or interests therein not owned by the United States
or access to such lands available under other applicable
law.
SEC. 8. WATER.
(a) FINDINGS, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITIONS.—(1)
Congress finds that—
(A) the lands designated as wilderness by this
Act are located at the headwaters of the streams
and rivers on those lands, with few, if any, actual or
proposed water resource facilities located upstream
from such lands and few, if any, opportunities for
diversion, storage, or other uses of water occurring
outside such lands that would adversely affect the
wilderness values of such lands; and
(B) the lands designated as wilderness by this
Act are not suitable for use for development of new
water resource facilities, or for the expansion of ex-
isting facilities; and
(C) therefore, it is possible to provide for prop-
er management and protection of the wilderness
value of such lands in ways different from those uti-
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lized in other legislation designating as wilderness
lands not sharing the attributes of the lands des-
ignated as wilderness by this Act.
(2) The purpose of this section is to protect the wil-
derness values of the lands designated as wilderness by
this Act by means other than those based on a federal
reserved water right.
(3) As used in this section, the term ‘‘water resource
facility’’ means irrigation and pumping facilities, res-
ervoirs, water conservation works, aqueducts, canals,
ditches, pipelines, wells, hydropower projects, and trans-
mission and other ancillary facilities, and other water di-
version, storage, and carriage structures.
(b) RESTRICTIONS ON RIGHTS AND DISCLAIMER OF
EFFECT.—(1) Neither the Secretary, nor any other offi-
cer, employee, representative, or agent of the United
States, nor any other person, shall assert in any court or
agency, nor shall any court or agency consider, any claim
to or for water or water rights in the State of Colorado,
which is based on any construction of any portion of this
Act, or the designation of any lands as wilderness by this
Act, as constituting an express or implied reservation of
water or water rights.
(2)(A) Nothing in this Act shall constitute or be con-
strued to constitute either an express or implied reserva-
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(f) MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION.—The Sec-
retaries of Agriculture and the Interior shall monitor the
operation of and access to water resource facilities within
the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act
and take all steps necessary to implement the provisions
of this section.
(g) INTERSTATE COMPACTS
AND NORTH PLATTE
RIVER.—(1) Nothing in this Act, and nothing in any pre-
vious Act designating any lands as wilderness, shall be
construed as limiting, altering, modifying, or amending
any of the interstate compacts or equitable apportionment
decrees that apportion water among and between the State
of Colorado and other States. Except as expressly provided
in this section, nothing in this Act shall affect or limit
the development or use by existing and future holders of
vested water rights of Colorado’s full apportionment of
such waters.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nei-
ther the Secretary nor any other officer, employee, or
agent of the United States, or any other person, shall as-
sert in any court or agency of the United States or any
other jurisdiction any rights, and no court or agency of
the United States shall consider any claim or defense as-
serted by any person based upon such rights, which may
be determined to have been established for waters of the
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North Platte River for purposes of the Platte River Wil-
derness Area established by Public Law 98–550, located
on the Colorado-Wyoming state boundary, to the extent
such rights would limit the use or development of water
within Colorado by present and future holders of vested
water rights in the North Platte River and its tributaries,
to the full extent allowed under interstate compact or
United States Supreme Court equitable decree. Any such
rights shall be exercised as if junior to, in a manner so
as not to prevent, the use or development of Colorado’s
full entitlement to interstate waters of the North Platte
River and its tributaries within Colorado allowed under
interstate compact or United States Supreme Court equi-
table decree.
SEC. 9. PIEDRA, ROUBIDEAU, AND TABEGUACHE AREAS.
(a) AREAS.—The provisions of this section shall
apply to the following areas:
(1) Certain lands in the San Juan National
Forest, comprising approximately 62,550 acres as
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Piedra
Area’’ dated January, 1993; and
(2) 
Certain 
lands 
in 
the 
Grand 
Mesa,
Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests, com-
prising approximately 19,650 acres, as generally de-
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picted on the map entitled ‘‘Roubideau Area’’ dated
January, 1993; and
(3) 
Certain 
lands 
in 
the 
Grand 
Mesa,
Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests and
in the Montrose District of the Bureau of Land
Management, 
comprising 
approximately 
17,240
acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled
‘‘Tabeguache Area’’ dated January, 1993.
(b) MANAGEMENT.—(1) Subject to valid existing
rights, the areas described in subsection (a) are withdrawn
from all forms of location, leasing, patent, disposition, or
disposal under public land, mining, and mineral and geo-
thermal leasing laws of the United States.
(2) The areas described in subsection (a) shall not
be subject to any obligation to further study such lands
for wilderness designation.
(3) Until Congress determines otherwise, and subject
to the provisions of section 8 of this Act, activities within
such areas shall be managed by the Secretary of Agri-
culture and Secretary of the Interior so as to maintain
the areas’ presently existing wilderness character and po-
tential for the inclusion in the National Wilderness Preser-
vation System.
(4) Livestock grazing in such areas shall be permitted
and managed to the same extent and in the same manner
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as of the date of enactment of this Act. Except as provided
by this Act, mechanized or motorized travel shall not be
permitted in such areas; Provided, That the Secretary may
permit motorized travel on trail number 535 in the San
Juan National Forest during periods of adequate snow
cover.
(c) DATA COLLECTION.—The Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation
with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, shall com-
pile data concerning the water resources of the areas de-
scribed in subsection (a), and existing and proposed water
resource facilities affecting such values.
SEC. 10. SPANISH PEAKS FURTHER PLANNING AREA
STUDY.
(a) REPORT.—Not later than three years from the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall report
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United
States House of Representatives and the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Sen-
ate on the status of private property interests located
within the Spanish Peaks further planning area of the
Pike-San Isabel National Forest in Colorado.
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report required by
this section shall identify the location of all private prop-
erty situated within the exterior boundaries of the Spanish
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Peaks area; the nature of such property interests; the
acreage of such private property interests; and the Sec-
retary’s views on whether the owners of said properties
would be willing to enter into either a sale or exchange
of these properties at fair market value if such a trans-
action became available in the near future.
(c) No authorization of eminent domain. Nothing
contained in this Act authorizes, and nothing in this Act
shall be construed to authorize, the acquisition of real
property by eminent domain.
(d) For a period of three years from the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary shall manage the Span-
ish Peaks Further Planning Area as provided by the Colo-
rado Wilderness Act of 1980.
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