An Act to further the purposes of the Wilderness Act by designating certain acquired lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, to provide for study of certain additional lands for such inclusion, and for other purposes.
PL 93-622 (S.3433), enacted 01/03/1975

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STAT. 
16 u s e 1278. 
16 u s e 1275. 
16 u s e 1274 
note. 
(c) In clause (i) of subsection (b) of section 7 strike the final 
comma and the following word "and" and insert in lieu thereof a colon 
and the following proviso: '•'•Provided^ That if any Act designating any 
river or rivers for potential addition to the national wild and scenic 
rivers system provides a period for the study or studies Avhich exceeds 
such three complete fiscal year period the period provided for in such 
Act shall be substituted for the three complete fiscal year period in 
the provisions of this clause (i); and'*. 
(d) In the fourth sentence of subsection (a) of section 4: 
(1) between "rivers" and "with" insert "(i)", and 
(2) strike "system." and insert in lieu thereof "system, and (ii) 
which possess the greatest proportion of private lands withiu 
their areas.". 
SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 6 of the Lower Saint Croix Kiver 
Act of 1972 (86 Stat. 1174) is amended by deleting "$7,275,000" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "$19,000,000". 
Approved January 3, 1975. 
January 3, 1975 
[S. 3433] 
Public Law 93-622 
AN ACT 
To further the purposes of the Wilderness Act by designating certain acquired 
lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, to provide 
for study of certain additional lands for such inclusion, and for other purposes. 
National Wilder-
ness Preservation 
System. 
Designation of 
certain acquired 
lands. 
16 u s e 1132 
note. 
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note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ 
STATEMENT OF FINDINGS AND POLICY 
SEC. 2. (a) The Congress finds that— 
(1) in the more populous eastern half of the United States 
there is an urgent need to identify, study, designate, and preserve 
areas for addition to the National Wilderness Preservation 
System; 
(2) in recognition of this urgent need, certain areas in the 
national forest system in the eastern half of the United States 
were designated by the Congress as wilderness in the Wilderness 
Act (78 Stat. 890) ; certain areas in the national wildlife refuge 
system in the eastern half of the United States have been desig-
nated by the Congress as wilderness or recommended by the 
President for such designation, and certain areas in the national 
park system in the eastern half of the United States have been 
recommended by the President for designation as wilderness; and 
(3) additional areas of wilderness in the more populous eastern 
half of the United States are increasingly threatened by the 
pressures of a growing and more mobile population, large-scale 
industrial and economic growth, and development and uses 
inconsistent with the protection, maintenance, and enhancement 
of tl.e areas' wilderness character. 
(b) Therefore, the Congress finds and declares that it is in the 
national interest that these and similar areas in the eastern half of 
the United States be promptly designated as wilderness within the 
National Wilderness Preservation System, in order to preserve such 
areas as an enduring resource of wilderness which shall be managed 
to promote and perpetuate the wilderness character of the land and its 
specific values of solitude, physical and mental challenge, scientific 
study, inspiration, and primitive recreation for the benefit of all of 
the American people of present and future generations. 
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DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS 
SEC. 3. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, 
the following lands (hereinafter in this Act referred to as "wilder-
ness areas"), as generally depicted on maps appropriately referenced, 
dated April 1974, are hereby designated as wilderness and, therefore, 
as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System— 
(1) certain lands in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama, 
which comprise about twelve thousand acres, are generally 
depicted on a map entitled "Sipsey Wilderness Area—Proposed", 
and shall be known as the Sipsey Wilderness: 
(2) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas, 
which comprise about fourteen thousand four hundred and thirty-
three acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Caney Creek 
Wilderness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Caney 
Creek Wilderness; 
(3) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, 
which comprise about ten thousand five hundred and ninety acres, 
are generally depicted on a map entitled "Upper Buffalo Wilder-
ness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Upper Buffalo 
Wilderness; 
(4) certain lands in the Appalachicola National Forest, Florida, 
which comprise about twenty-two thousand acres, are generally 
depicted on a map entitled "Bradwell Bay Wilderness Area— 
Proposed", and shall be known as the Bradwell Bay Wilderness; 
(5) certain lands in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Ken-
tucky, which comprise about five thousand five hundred acres, aie 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Beaver Creek Wilderness 
Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Beaver Creek 
Wilderness; 
(6) certain lands in the White Mountain National Forest, New 
Hampshire, which comprise about twenty thousand three hundred 
and eighty acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Presi-
dential Range-Dry River Wilderness Area—Proposed", and shall 
be known as the Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness; 
(7) certain lands in the Nantahala and Cherokee National 
Forests, North Carolina and Tennessee, which comprise about 
fifteen thousand acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Joyce 
Kilmer-Slickrock 
Wilderness Area—Proposed", 
and 
shall be known as the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness; 
(8) certain lands in the Sumter, Nantahala, and Chattahoochee 
National Forests in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, 
which comprise about three thousand six hundred acres, are gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Ellicott Rock Wilderness 
Area—Proposed", 
and 
shall 
be known 
as Ellicott 
Rock 
Wilderness; 
(9) certain lands in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee, 
which comprise about two thousand five hundred and seventy 
acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Gee Creek Wilder-
ness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Gee Creek 
Wilderness; 
(10) certain lands in the Green Mountain National Forest, 
Vermont, which comprise about six thousand five hundred acres, 
are generally depicted on a map entitled "Bristol Cliffs Wilder-
ness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Bristol Cliffs 
Wilderness; 
(11) certain lands in the Green Mountain National Forest, 
Vermont, which comprise about fourteen thousand three hundred 
acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Lye Brook 
Wilderness Area^—Proposed", and shall be known as the Lye 
Brook Wilderness; 
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(12) certain lands in the Jefferson National Forest, Virginia, 
which comprise about eight thousand eight hundred acres, are 
generally depicted on a map entitled "James River Face Wilder-
ness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the James River 
Face Wilderness; 
(13) certain lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West 
Virginia, which comprise about ten thousand two hundred and fif-
teen acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Dolly Sods 
Wilderness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Dolly 
Sods Wilderness; 
(14) certain lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West 
Virginia, which comprise about twenty thousand acres, are gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Otter Creek Wilderness Study 
Area", and shall be knowm as the Otter Creek Wilderness; ancl 
(15) certain lands in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wis-
consin, which comprise about six thousand six hundred acres, are 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Rainbow Lake Wilder-
ness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Rainbow Lake 
Wilderness. 
note ^^'^ ^^^^ 
(b) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, the follow-
ing lands (hereinafter referred to as "wilderness areas"), as generally 
depicted on maps appropriately referenced, dated April 1973, are 
hereby designated as wilderness and, therefore, as components of the 
National Wilderness Preservation System: certain lands in the Chat-
tahoochee and Cherokee National Forests, Georgia and Tennessee, 
which comprise about thirty-four thousand five hundred acres, are gen-
erally depicted on a map dated April 1973, entitled "Cohutta Wilder-
ness Area—Proposed", and shall be known as the Cohutta Wilderness. 
DESIGNATIOX OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREA 
SEC. 4. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act and 
an!f ^o^'^ ^^^^ 
^^^ accordance with the provisions of subsection 3(d) of that Act, the 
Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") 
shall review, as to its suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as 
wilderness, each area designated by or pursuant to subsection (b) of 
Report to the 
^]^jg gectiou aud report his findings to the President. The President 
shall advise the United States Senate and House of Representatives of 
his recommendations with respect to the designation as w^ilderness of 
each such area on which the i-eview has been completed. 
(b) Areas to be reviewed pursuant to this section (hereinafter 
referred to as "wilderness study areas"), as generally depicted on maps 
app:-opriately referenced, dated April 1974, include— 
(1) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas, 
which comprise approximately five thousand seven hundred acres 
and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Belle Starr Cave 
Wilderness Study Area"; 
(2) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas, 
which comprise approximately five thousand fiv^e hundred acres 
and ai'e generally depicted on a maj) entitled "Dry Creek Wilder-
ness Study Area"; 
(3) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest. Arkansas, 
which comprise approximately two thousand one hundred acres 
and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Richland Creek 
Wilderness Study Area"; 
(4) certain lands in the Appalachicola National Forest, Florida, 
w^iich comprise approximately one tliousand one hundred acres 
and are generally depicted as the "Sopchoppy River Wilderness 
Study Area" on a map entitled "Bradwell Bay Wilderness Area— 
Proposed"; 
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(5) certain lands in the Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan, 
which comprise approximately five thousand four hundred acres 
and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Rock River Canyon 
Wilderness Study Area"; 
(6) certain lands in the Ottawa National Forest, Michigan, 
which comprise approximately thirteen thousand two hundred 
acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Sturgeon 
River Wilderness Study Area"; 
(7) certain lands in the Pisgah National Forest, North Caro-
lina, which comprise approximately one thousand one hundred 
acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Craggy 
Mountain Wilderness Study Area"; 
(8) certain lands in the Francis Marion National Forest, South 
Carolina, which comprise approximately one thousand five hun-
dred acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Wambaw 
Swamp Wilderness Study Area"; 
(9) certain lands in the Jefferson National Forest, Virginia, 
^ which comprise approximately four thousand acres and are gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Mill Creek Wilderness Study 
Area"; 
(10) certain lands in the Jefferson National Forest, Virginia, 
which comprise approximately eight thousand four hundred acres 
and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Mountain Lake 
Wilderness Study Area"; 
(11) certain lands in the Jefferson National Forest, Virginia, 
which comprise approximately five thousand acres and are gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Peters Mountain Wilderness 
Study Area"; 
(12) certain lands in the George Washington National Forest, 
Virginia, which comprise approximately six thousand seven hun-
dred acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Ramsey's 
Draft Wilderness Study Area"; 
(13) certain lands in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wis-
consin, which comprise approximately six thousand three hundred 
acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Flynn Lake 
Wilderness Study Area"; 
(14) certain lands in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wis-
consin, which comprise approximately four thousand two hundred 
acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Round Lake 
Wilderness Study Area"; 
(15) certain lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West 
Virginia, which comprise approximately thirty-six thousand three 
hundred acres and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Cran-
berry Wilderness Study Area"; 
(16) certain lands in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee, 
which comprise approximately four thousand five hundred acres 
and are generally depicted on a map entitled "Big Frog Wilder-
ness Study Area"; and 
(17) certain lands in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee, 
which comprise approximately fourteen thousand acres and are 
generally depicted as the "Citico Creek Area" on a map entitled 
"Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness Area—^Proposed"; 
(c) Reviews shall be completed and the President shall make his 
recommendations to Congress within five years after enactment of 
this Act. 
(d) Congress may, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of 
Agriculture or otherwise, designate as study areas, national forest 
system lands east of the 100th meridian other than those areas specified 
in subsection (b) of this section, for review as to suitability or nonsuit-
ability for preservation as wilderness. Any such area subsequently 
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designated as a wilderness study area after the enactment of this Act 
shall have its suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilder-
ness submitted to Congress within ten years from the date of desig-
nation as a wilderness study area. Nothing in this Act shall be 
construed as limiting the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture 
to carry out management programs, development, and activities in 
accordance with the Multiple-Use, Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (74 
Stat. 215, 16 U.S.C. 528-531) within areas not designated for review 
in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
(e) Nothing herein contained shall limit the President in proposing, 
as part of his recommendations to Congress, the alteration of existing 
boundaries of any wilderness study area or recommending the addition 
to any such area of any contiguous area predominantly of wilderness 
value. Any recommendation of the President to the effect that such 
area or portion thereof should be designated as "wilderness" shall 
become effective only if so provided by an Act of Congress. 
FILING OF MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS 
SEC. 5. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, a map 
of each wilderness study area and a map and a legal description of 
each wilderness area shall be filed with the Committees on Interior 
and Insular Affairs and on Agriculture of the United States Senate 
and House of Representatives, and each such map and description 
shall have tlie same force and effect as if included in this Act: Pro-
vided^ however^ That correction of clerical and typographical ei-rors 
in each such legal description and map may be made. Each such map 
and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspec-
tion in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture. 
MANAGEMENT OF AREAS 
SEC. 6. (a) except as otherwise provided by this Act, the wilderness 
areas designated by or pursuant to tliis Act shall be managed by the 
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the 
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Wilderness Act. The wilderness study areas designated by or pursuant 
to this Act shall—be managed by the Secretary of Agriculture so as 
to maintain their presently existing wilderness character and potential 
for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System until 
Congress has determined otherwise, except that such management 
requirement shall in no case extend beyond the expiration of the third 
succeeding Congress from the date of submission to the Congress of 
the President's recommendations concerning the particular study area, 
(b) Within the sixteen wilderness areas designated by section o 
of this Act: 
Acquisition. 
(J) thc Sccrctary of Agriculture may acquire by purchase with 
donated or appropriated funds, by gift, exchange, condemnation, 
or otherwise, such lands, waters, or interests therein as he deter-
mines necessary or desirable for the purposes of this Act. All lands 
acquired under the provisions of this subsection shall become 
national forest lands and a part of the Wilderness System; 
(2) in exercising the exchange authority granted by paragraph 
(1), the Secretary of Agriculture may accept title to non-Federal 
property for federally owned property of substantially equal 
value, or, if not of substantially equal value, the value shall be 
equalized by the payment of money to the grantor or to the Secre-
tary as the circumstances require; 
(3) the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to condemn 
any private land or interest therein within any wilderness area 
designated by or pursuant to this Act shall not be invoked so 
long as the owner or owners of such land or interest holds and 
note. 
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uses it in the same manner and for tliose purposes for which sncli 
land or interest was held on the date of the designation of the 
wilderness area: Provided^ however^ That the Secretary of Agri-
culture may acquire such land or interest without consent of the 
owner or owners whenever he finds such use to be incompatible 
with the management of such area as wilderness and the owner 
or owners manifest unwillingness, and subsequently fail, to 
promptly discontinue such incompatible use; 
(4) at least sixty days prior to any transfer by exchange, sale, 
or otherwise (except by bequest) of such lands, or interests therein 
described in paragraph (3) of this subsection, the owner or owners 
of such lands or interests therein shall provide notice of such 
Notice. 
transfer to the supervisor of the national forest concerned, in 
accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of 
Agriculture may promulgate; 
(5) at least sixty days prior to any change in the use of such 
lands or interests therein described in paragraph (3) of this sub-
section which will result in any significant new construction or 
disturbance of land surface or flora or will require the use of 
motor vehicles and other forms of mechanized transport or motor-
ized equipment (except as otherwise authorized by law for ingress 
or egress or for existing agricultural activities begun before the 
date of the designation other than timber cutting), the owner or 
owners of such lands or interests therein shall provide notice of 
such change in use to the supervisor of the national forest within 
which such lands are located, in accordance with such rules and 
regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may promulgate; 
(6) for the purposes of paragraphs (7) and (8) of this sub-
section, the term "property" shall mean a detached, noncommercial 
"Property." 
residential dwelling, the construction of which was begun before 
the date of the designation of the wilderness area (hereinafter 
referred to as "dwelling"), or an existing agricultural activity 
begun befoi-e the date of the designation of the wilderness area, 
other than timber cutting (hereinafter referred to as "agricultural 
activity"), together with so much of the land on which the dwell-
ing or agricultural activity is situated, such land being in the 
same ownership as the dwelling or agricultural activity, as the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall determine to be necessary for the 
enjoyment of the dwelling for the sole purpose of noncommercial 
residential use or for the agricultural activity, together with any 
structures accessory to the dwelling or agricultural activity which 
are situated on the land so designated; 
(7) any owner or owners of property on the date of its acquisi-
tion by the Secretary of Agriculture may, as a condition of such 
acquisition, retain for themselves and their successors or assigns 
a right of use and occupancy of the property for such noncom-
mercial residential purpose or agricultural activity for twenty-
five years, or, in lieu thereof, for a term ending at the death of 
the owner or his spouse, whichever is later. The owner shall elect 
the term to be reserved. The Secretary of Agriculture shall pay 
to the owner the fair market value of the property on the date of 
such acquisition less the fair market value on such date of the right 
retained by the owner: Provided^ That whenever an owner of 
property elects to retain a right of use and occupancy as provided 
for in this section, such owner shall be deemed to have waived 
any benefits or rights accruing under sections 203,204,205, and 206 
of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisi-
tion Policies Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1894), and for the purposes 
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of those sections such owner shall not be considered a displaced 
person as defined in section 101 (6) of that Act; and 
(8) a right of use and occupancy retained or enjoyed pursuant 
to paragraph (7) of this subsection may be terminated with 
respect to the entire property by the Secretary of Agriculture 
upon his determination that the property or any portion thereof 
has ceased to be used for such noncommercial residential purpose 
or agricultural activity and upon tender to the holder of a right 
an amount equal to the fair market value as of the date of tender 
of that portion of the right which remains unexpired on the date 
of termination. 
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note. 
TRANSFER OF FEDERAL PROPERTY 
SEC. 7. The head of any Federal department or agency having juris-
diction over any lands or interests in lands within the boundaries of 
wilderness areas and wilderness study areas designated by or pursuant 
to this Act is authorized to transfer to the Secretary jurisdiction over 
such lands for administration in accordance with the provisions of 
this Act. 
APPLICABILITY 
SEC. 8. Unless otherwise provided by any other Act the provisions 
of this Act shall only apply to National Forest areas east of the 100th 
meridian. 
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 9. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated an amount 
not to exceed $5,000,000 for the acquisition by purchase, condemnation, 
or otherwise of lands, waters, or interests therein located in areas desig-
nated as wilderness pursuant to section 3 of this Act and an amount not 
to exceed $1,700,000 for the purpose of conducting a review of wilder-
ness study areas designated by section 4 of this Act. 
Approved January 3, 1975. 
January 3, 1975 
[S. 3481] 
Public Law 93-623 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to deal with discriminatory and 
unfair competitive practices in international air transportation, and for other 
purposes. 
International 
Air Transportation 
Fair Competitive 
Practices Act of 
1974. 
49 u s e 1159a 
note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asserribled^ 
SHORT TITLE 
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "International Air Trans-
portation Fair Competitive Practices Act of 1974". 
49 u s e llS9b. 
DISCRIMINATORY AND UNFAIR COMPETITIVE PRACTICES 
SEC. 2. (a) United States air carriers operating in foreign air 
transportation perform services of vital importance to the foreign 
commerce of the United States including its balance of payments, to 
the Postal Service, and to the national defense. Such carriers have 
become subject to a variety of discriminatory and unfair competitive 
practices in their competition with foreign air carriers. The Depart-
ment of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of 
Transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board, and other departments