An act to establish the Charles C. Deam Wilderness in the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana.
PL 97-384 (S.2710), enacted 12/22/1982

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PUBLIC LAW 97-384—DEC. 22, 1982 
Public Law 97-384 
97th Congress 
Dec. 22, 1982 
[S. 2710] 
Charles C. Deam 
Wilderness, 
Hoosier 
National 
Forest, Ind. 
Establishment. 
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An Act 
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To establish the Charles C. Deam Wilderness in the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in further-
ance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 
1131), certain lands within the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana, 
which comprise approximately twelve thousand nine hundred and 
fifty-three acres as generally depicted on a map entitled "Charles C. 
Deam Wilderness—Proposed", dated April 30, 1982, are hereby 
des^ated as wilderness, and therefore as a component of the 
national wilderness system, and shall be known as the Charles C. 
Deam Wilderness. 
SEC. 2. Subject to valid existing rights, the Charles C. Deam 
Wilderness as designated by this Act shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the 
Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilder-
ness, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective 
date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
effective date of this Act. 
SEC. 3. Nothing in tlus Act shall affect the right of public access to 
cemeteries located within the Charles C. Desim Wilderness, includ-
ing the Terril Cemetery. The right of access to privately-owned land 
completely surrounded by national forest lands within the area, 
designated by this Act as wilderness and to valid occupancies wholly 
within the area designated by this Act as wilderness shall be 
protected in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the 
Wilderness Act. 
SEC. 4. (a) The Congress finds that— 
(1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second 
roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and 
(2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of 
national forest roadless areas in Indiana and the environmental 
impacts associated with alternative allocations of such areas. 
(b) On the basis of such review, the Congress hereby determines 
and directs that— 
(1) without passing on the question of the legal and factual 
sufficiency of the RARE 11 final environmental statement 
(dated January 1979) with respect to national forest lands in 
States other than Indiana, such statement shall not be subject 
to judicial review with respect to national forest system lands in 
the State of Indiana; 
(2) with respect to the national forest lands in the State of 
Indiana which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture 
in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II), 
that review and evaluation shall be deemed for the purposes of 
the initial land management plans required for such lands by 
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 
of 1974 as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 
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1976 (Public Law 94-588) to be an adequate consideration of the 1
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suitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilder- ^
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ness Preservation System and the Department of Agriculture 
shall not be required to review the wilderness option prior to 
the revision of the initial plans and in no case prior to the date 
established by law for completion of the initial planning cycle; 
(3) areas in the State of Indiana reviewed in such final 
environmental statement and not designated as wilderness by 
this Act shall be managed for multiple use pursuant to section 6 
of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
Act of 1974 as amended by the National Forest Management 
Act of 1976; and 
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(4) unless expressly authorized by Ck)ngress the Department of ^°^^-
Agriculture shall not conduct any further statewide roadless 
area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in 
the State of Indiana for the purpose of determining their suit-
ability for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation 
System. 
SEC. 5. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, maps Filing. 
and legal descriptions of the Wilderness Area shall be filed with the 
Committees on Agriculture and Interior and Insular Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natu-
ral Resources of the Senate, and such mai» and legal descriptions 
shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: 
Provided, however. That corrections of clerical and typographical 
errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made. 
Approved December 22, 1982. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 2710: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 97-948 Pt. I (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 97-557 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 128 (1982): 
Sept. 29, considered and passed Senate; action vitiated and bill returned to 
calendar. 
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate. 
Dec. 13, considered and passed House.