Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981
PL 97-407 (S.1965), enacted 01/03/1983

PUBLIC LAW 97-407—JAN. 3, 1983 
96 STAT. 2033 
Public Law 97-407 -m 
97th Congress 
An Act 
To designate certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, which 
comprise approximately six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight acres, and 
which are generally depicted on a map entitled "Paddy Creek Wilderness Area", as 
a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be known as the Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981. 
SEC. 2. In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 
Stat. 890) and the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat. 2096), the 
following area as generally depicted on a map appropriately refer-
enced, dated December 1981, is hereby designated as wilderness and, 
therefore, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System; certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri, 
which comprise about six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight 
acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Paddy Creek 
Wilderness Area", dated December 1981, and shall be known as the 
Paddy Creek Wilderness Area. 
SEC. 3. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the 
Paddy Creek Wilderness Area with the Energy and Natural Re-
sources Committee of the Senate and the Committees on Agricul-
ture and Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representa-
tives, and such map and legal description shall have the same force 
and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however. That correc-
tion of clerical and typographiceil errors in such legal description 
and map may be made. 
SEC. 4. The area designated as wilderness by this Act shall be 
administered in accordance with the applicable provisions of the 
Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890) and the Act of January 3,1975 (88 Stat. 
2096), except that any reference in such provisions to the effective 
date of such Acts shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective 
date of this Act. 
SEC. 5. (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 System roadless areas in the State of Missouri 
and of 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 II Final Environmental Statement 
(dated January 1979) with respect to National Forest System 
lands in States other than Missouri such statement shall not be 
subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest 
System lands in the State of Missouri; 
Jan. 3,1983 
[S. 1965] 
Paddy Creek 
Wilderness Act 
of 1981. 
16 u s e 1132 
note. 
16 u s e 1131 
note. 
Map and legal 
description, 
filing with 
congressional 
committees. 
Effective date. 
16 u s e 1131 
note. 
96 STAT. 2034 
PUBLIC LAW 97-407—JAN. 3, 1983 
Review and 
evaluation. 
16 u s e 1600 
note. 
16 u s e 1600 
note. 
16 u s e 1605. 
16 u s e 1600 
note. 
Review and 
evaluation. 
(2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the 
State of Missouri which were reviewed by the Department of 
Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation 
(RARE II), except those lands remaining in further planning 
upon enactment of this Act, or designated as wilderness by this 
Act or previous Acts of Congress that review and evaluation 
shall be deemed for the purposes of the initial land manage-
ment plans required for such lands by the Forest and Range-
land Renewal Resources Planning Act of 1974 as amended by 
the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (Public Law 
94-588) to be an adequate consideration of the suitability of 
such lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preserva-
tion 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 Missouri reviewed in such final 
environmental statement and not designated as wilderness by 
this Act or previous Acts of Congress or remaining in further 
planning upon enactment of 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 
(4) unless expressly authorized by Congress the Department of 
Agriculture shall not conduct any further statewide roadless 
area review and evaluation of National Forest System lands in 
the State of Missouri for the purpose of determining their 
suitability for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preserva-
tion System. 
Approved January 3, 1983. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 1965: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 97-949 Pt. 1 (eomm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). 
SENATE REPORT No. 97-554 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources). 
eONGRESSIONAL REOORD, Vol. 128 (1982): 
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate. 
Dec. 14, considered in House. 
Dec. 15, failed of passage in House. 
Dec. 16, considered and passed House, amended. 
Dec. 19, Senate agreed to House amendments.