An Act to designate the Desolation Wilderness, Eldorado National Forest, in the State of California
PL 91-82 (S.713), enacted 10/10/1969

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PUBLIC LAW 91-82-OCT. 10, 1969 
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(3) Missouri River Basin project, Upper Republican division, Ar-
mel unit, on the South Fork of the Republican River in the vicinity 
of Hale, Colorado; 
(4) Shoshone project, Buffalo Bill Dam modifications, the Shoshone 
River, about five miles west of Cody, Wyoming; 
(5) Missouri River Basin project, James DivisioUj Sioux Falls unit, 
in the Big Sioux River Basin in the vicinity of Sioux Falls, South 
Dakota; 
(6) Amargosa project, in the Amargosa River Basin in the vicinity 
of Beatty, Nevada, and Death Vallev Junction, California; 
(7) Willamette River project, Calapooia division, in the Calapooia 
River Basin in Linn County, Oregon; and 
(8) Willamette River project. South Yamhill division, on the South 
Yamhill and Willamette Rivers in Yamhill and Polk Counties, Oregon. 
Approved October 8, 1969. 
Public Law 91-82 
AN ACT 
October 10, 1969 
To designate the Desolation Wilderness, Eldorado National Forest, in the State 
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of California. 
Forest, Calif. 
Designation. 
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Filing of map, 
etc. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in accordance wi°de^mess°" 
with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 Eidorado National 
Stat. 891), the area classified as the Desolation Valley Primitive Area, 
with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Desolation Wilderness—Pro-
posed," dated April 26, 1967, which is on file and available for public 
inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture, is hereby designated as the Desolation Wilderness within 
and as part of the Eldorado National Forest, comprising an area of 
approximately sixty-three thousand five hundred acres. 
SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secre-
tary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the 
Desolation Wilderness with the Interior and Insular Affairs Com-
mittees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, 
and such description shall have the same force and effect as if included 
in this Act: Provided^ however^ That correction of clerical and typo-
graphical erroi-s in such legal description and map may be made. 
SEC. 3. The Desolation Wilderness shall be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the 
Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness 
areas, 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, and except that the owners and operators of existing 
federally licensed hydroelectric facilities shall have the right of 
reasonable access to the areas for purposes of operating and maintain-
ing such facilities in a manner that is consistent with past practices 
without prior approval of the Secretary. 
SEC. 4. The previous classification of the Desolation Valley Prim-
itive Area is hereby abolished. 
Approved October 10, 1969. 
Administration.