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Management Act, of the BLM Mount Stirling and LaMadre Mountains Wilderness 

 Study Areas that would be made part of the National Forest System by the bill 

 until Congress designates the areas as wilderness or releases them from 

 further wilderness consideration. 



Section 5(c) would provide that any roadless area, or portion thereof on 

 national forest lands recommended by the Secretary of Agriculture for 

 wilderness which would be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Secretary of 

 the Interior as a result of this bill, would be managed by the Secretary of 

 the Interior in accordance with the provisions of 603(c) of the Federal Land 

 Policy and Management Act. 



Section 6 would provide that nothing in the bill should be construed to change 

 the laws governing the management of mineral resources. 



Section 7 omits the acreage added by S. 59 to the Tolyabe and Inyo National 

 Forests from determinations of the share of receipts from the Twenty-five 

 Percent Fund that exists between California and Nevada under the Act of 

 May 23, 1908, provided, however, that the acreage added to these forests shall 

 be counted in the distribution of the Twenty-five Percent Fund among affected 

 counties in Nevada. 



Section 8 would provide that nothing in the bill shall be construed to expand 

 or diminish any water right of the United States under State or Federal law 

 which the United States had, or may be determined to have had by purchase, 

 reservation or otherwise, prior to enactment of S. 59. Moreover, nothing in 

 the bill would affect the right of the United States or of any person to 

 acquire or dispose of water or water rights under applicable law. 



