A BILL to Designate Certain Lands As Wilderness

CONGRESS *>J"k<4 1STSESSXO* 3014 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER 9,1969 Mr. JACKSON (for himself, Mr. ANDERSON, Mr. GRAVEL, Mr. MAGNUSON, Mr. MONTOYA, and Mr. STEVENS) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affaira A BILL To designate certain lands as wilderness. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 lives of the United States of America in Congress assemble^ 3 That, (a) in accordance with section 3 (c) of the Wilderness 4 Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1132 (c) ), the following lands 5 are hereby designated as wilderness, and shall be adininis^ 6 tered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with th>$ 7 provisions of the Wilderness Act: : 8 (1) certain lands in the Hart Mountain Rational 9 Antelope Refuge, Oregon, which comprise about forty- 10 eight thousand acres and which are depicted on a map 11 entitled "Hart Mountain National Antelope, Refuge II 2 1 Wilderness—Proposed", dated August 1967, which shall 2 be known as the "Hart Mountain National Antelope 3 Refuge Wilderness"; 4 (2) certain lands in the Bering Sea, Bogoslof, and 5 Tuxedni National Wildlife Refuges, Alaska, as depicted ti on maps entitled "Bering Sea Wilderness—Proposed", 7 "Bogoslof Wilderness—Proposed", and "Tuxedni Wil- 8 derness—Proposed", dated August 1967, and the lands 9 comprising the St. Lazaria, Hazy Islands, and For- 10 rester Island National Wildlife Refuges, Alaska, as 11 depicted on maps entitled "Southeastern Alaska Pro- 12 posed Wilderness Areas", dated August 1967, which 13 shall be known as the "Bering Sea Wilderness", "Bogos- 14 lof Wilderness", "Tuxedni Wilderness", "St. Lazaria 15 Wilderness", "Hazy Islands Wilderness", and "For- 16 rester Island Wilderness"; -^ (3) certain lands in the Three Arch Rocks and 18 Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuges, Oregon, as depicted on maps entitled "Three Arch Rocks Wilder- ness—Proposed", and "Oregon Islands Wilderness—Pro- posed", dated July 1967, and the lands comprising the QO "" Copalis, Flattery Rocks, and Quillayute Needles National oo Wildlife Refuges, Washington, as depicted on a map entitled "Washington Islands Wilderness—Proposed", 25 dated August 1967, as revised January 1969, which a 1 shall be known as "Three-Arch Rocks Wilderness", 2 "The Oregon Islands Wilderness", and "The Washing- 3 ton Islands Wilderness"; 4 (4) certain lands in the Bitter Lake National Wild- 5 life Refuge, New Mexico, which comprise about eight 6 thousand five hundred acres and which are depicted on 7 a map entitled "Salt Creek Wilderness—Proposed", and 8 dated August 1967, which shall be known as the "Salt 9 Creek Wilderness"; and 10 (5) certain lands in the Malheur National Wildlife 11 Refuge, Oregon, which comprise about fifty thousand 12 six hundred acres and which are depicted on a map 13 entitled "Malheur Wilderness—Proposed", dated August 14 1967, which shall be known as the "Malheur National 15 Wildlife Refuge Wilderness". 16 (b) Maps of these wilderness areas shall be on file and 17 available for public inspection in the offices of the Bureau of 1° Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior. 1" SEC. 2. Except as necessary to meet minimum require- 20 ments in connection with the purposes for which the fore- 21 going areas are established and for the purposes of this Act ^ (including measures required in emergencies involving the 23 health and safety of persons within the areas), there shall ** be no commercial enterprise, no temporary or permanent ^ roads, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or 1 motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechan- 2 ical transport, and no structure or installation within the 3 areas designated as wilderness by this Act. tri s V! IH IQ o S CO 1 QQ ||o I I? i w ^ S 50 nd s O " a 00 h> 00 i?i s §1 P o g BL ^ tj •< oa.

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