An Act to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to classify as a wilderness area the national sorest lands adjacent to the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area, known as the Minam River Canyon and adjoining area, in Oregon, and for other purposes
PL 92-521 (S.493), enacted 10/21/1972

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PUBLIC LAW 92-521-OCT. 21, 1972 
[86 STAT. 
John W. Byrnes 
Post Office and 
Federal Building. 
Effective 
dates. 
SEC, 40. The post office and Federal building at Jefferson and 
Walnut Streets, Green Bay, Wisconsin, shall hereafter be known and 
designated as the "John W. Byrnes Post Office and Federal Building". 
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, record, or other 
paper of the United States to such building shall be held to be a 
reference to the "John W. Byrnes Post Office and Federal Building". 
SEC. 41. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act shall 
take effect on the date of its enactment. 
(b) Sections 6 and 7, sections 10 through 23, inclusive, sections 25, 
31, 32, 38, and 40 shall take effect January 4, 1973. 
Approved October 21, 1972. 
October 21, 1972 
[S. 493] 
Public Law 92-521 
AN ACT 
To authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to classify as a wilderness 
area the national forest lands adjacent to the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area, 
known as the Minani River Canyon and adjoining area, in Oregon, and for 
other purposes. 
Eagle Cap 
Wilderness, Oreg. 
Additional ' 
lands. 
Map and des-
cription, filing 
with congres-
sional commit-
tees. 
Ad min is tra t i on. 
78 Stat. 890 
16 u s e 1131 
note. 
Lower Minam, 
review, report to 
President. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ Tha,t the areas pro-
posed for addition to the Eagle Cap Wilderness as generally depicted 
on a map entitled "Proposed additions to the Eagle Cap Wilderness", 
dated August 1, 1972, which is on file and available for public inspec-
tion in the Office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agricul-
ture, are hereby designated for addition to and a part of the Eagle 
Cap Wilderness, Wallowa and Whitman National Forests, Oregon, 
which addition comprises an area of approximately 72,420 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 
Eagle Cap Wilderness as revised by this Act with the Interior and 
Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and 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 typographical errors in such legal description and map 
may be made. 
SEC. 3. The additions to the Eagle Cap Wilderness provided by this 
Act shall be administered as a part of the Eagle Cap Wilderness 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. 
SEC. 4. Within five years from the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary shall review those lands depicted on the map referenced 
in section 1 of this Act as the "Wilderness Study Area" comprising 
about 32,000 acres, commonlj^ referred to as the Lower Minam, and 
shall report to the President, in accordance with subsections 3(b) and 
3(d) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1132 (b) and 
(d)), his recommendation as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any 
area within the above area for preservation as a wilderness, and any 
designation of any such area as a wilderness shall be accomplished 
in accordance with said subsections of the Wilderness Act. 
Approved October 21, 1972.