§ 90e-2. — Map and legal description, filing with Congressional committees; correction of errors; applicability of Wilderness Act.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC90e-2]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER X--NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 90e-2. Map and legal description, filing with Congressional
committees; correction of errors; applicability of Wilderness
Act
(a) As soon as practicable after October 2, 1968, the Secretary of
Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the Pasayten
Wilderness and of the Glacier Peak Wilderness, as hereby modified, with
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, and such
descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this
subchapter: Provided, however, That correction of clerical or
typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made.
(b) Upon the filing of the legal descriptions and maps as provided
for in subsection (a) of this section the Pasayten Wilderness and the
additions to the Glacier Peak Wilderness shall be administered by the
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the
Wilderness Act [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.] and thereafter shall be subject
to 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 subchapter.
(Pub. L. 90-544, title VI, Sec. 603, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 930; Pub. L.
103-437, Sec. 6(e), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4585.)
References in Text
The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 88-577,
Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, as amended, which is classified generally
to chapter 23 (Sec. 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out
under section 1131 of this title and Tables.
Effective date of the Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b),
means the date of enactment, Sept. 3, 1964, of such Act.
Effective date of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b), means
the date of enactment, Oct. 2, 1968, of this subchapter.
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on Energy
and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural
Resources of the House of Representatives'' for ``Interior and Insular
Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and House of
Representatives''.
Change of Name
Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21
of Title 2, The Congress.
