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41 et seq.) ; and section 73 and 74 of the Act ot 

 August 27, 1894. 



COORDINATION OF APPLICATIONS 



Sec. 511. Applicants before Federal departments 

 and agencies other than the Department of the In- 

 terior or Agriculture seeking a license, certificate, 

 or other authority for a project which involve a 

 right-o-way over, upon, under, or through public 

 land or National Forest System lands must simul- 

 taneously apply to the Secretary concerned for 

 the appropriate authority to use public lands or 

 National Forest System lands and submit to the 

 Secretary concerned all information furnished to 

 the other Federal department or agency. 



Title VI — Designated Management Areas 



CALIFORNIA DESERT CONSERVATION AREA 



Sec 601. 'a) The Congress finds that — 



(1) the California desert contains historical, 

 scenic, archeological, environmental, biological, 

 cultural, scientific, educational, recreational, and 

 economic resources that are uniquely located ad- 

 jacent to an area of large population; 



(2) the California desert environment is a 

 total ecosystem that is extremely fragile, easily 

 scarred, and slowly healed; 



<3) the California desert environment and its 

 resources, including certain rare and endangered 

 species of wildlife, plants, and fishes, and nu- 

 merous archeological and historic sites, are seri- 

 ously threatened by air pollution, inadequate 

 Federal management authority, and pressures of 

 increased use, particularly recreational use, 

 which are certain to intensify because of the 

 rapidly growing population of southern Cali- 

 fornia ; 



(4) the use of all California desert resources 

 can and should be provided for in a multiple use 

 and sustained yield management plant to con- 

 serve these resources for future generations, and 

 to provide present and future use and enjoy- 

 ment, particularly outdoor recreation uses, in- 

 cluding the use, where appropriate, of off-road 

 recreational vehicles; 



(5) the Secretary has initiated a compre- 

 hensive planning process and established an in- 

 terim management program for the public lands 

 in the California desert; and 



(6) to insure further study of the relationship 

 of man and the California desert environment, 

 preserve the unique and irreplaceable resources, 

 including archeological values, and conserve the 

 use of the economic resources of the California 

 desert, the public must be provided more oppor- 

 tunity to participate in such planning and man- 

 agement, and additional management authority 

 must be provided to the Secretary to facilitate 

 eflfective implementation of such planning and 

 management. 



(b) It is the purpose of this section to provide 



for the immediate and future protection and ad- 

 ministration of the public lands in the California 

 desert within the framework of a program of mul- 

 tiple use and sustained yield, and the maintenance 

 of environmental quality. 



(c) (1) For the purpose of this section, the term 

 "California desert" means the area generally de- 

 picted on a map entitled "California Desert Con- 

 servation Area — Proposed" dated April 1974, and 

 described as provided in subsection (c) ^2) . 



(2) As soon as practicable after the date of ap- 

 proval of this Act, the Secretary shall file a revised 

 map and a legal description of the California Des- 

 ert Conservation Area with the Committees on In- 

 terior and Insular Affairs of the United States 

 Senate and the House of Representatives, and such 

 map and description shall have the same force and 

 effect as if included in this Act. Correction of cleri- 

 cal and typographical errors in such legal descrip- 

 tion and a map may be made by the Secretary. 

 To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall make 

 such legal description and map available to the 

 public promptly upon request. 



(d) The Secretary, in accordance with section 

 202 of this Act, shall prepare and implement a 

 comprehensive, long-range plan for the manage- 

 ment, use, development, and protection of the pub- 

 lic lands within the California Desert Conservation 

 Area. Such plan shall take into account the prin- 

 ciples of multiple use and sustained yield in 

 providing for resource use and development, in- 

 cluding, but not limited to, maintenance of environ- 

 mental quality, rights-of-way, and mineral 

 development. Such plan shall be completed and 

 implementation thereof initiated on or before Sep- 

 tember 30, 1980. 



fe) During the period beginning on the date of 

 approval of this Act and ending on the effective 

 date of implementation of the comprehensive, long- 

 range plan, the Secretary shall execute an interim 

 program to manage, use, and protect the public 

 lands, and their resources now in danger of de- 

 struction, in the California Desert Conservation 

 Area, to provide for the public use of such lands in 

 an orderly and reasonable manner such as through 

 the development of campgrounds and visitor cen- 

 ters, and to provide for a uniformed desert ranger 

 force. 



(f) Subject to valid existing rights, notlung in 

 this Act shall affect the applicability of the United 

 States mining laws on the public lands within the 

 California Desert Conservation Area, except that 

 all mining claims located on public lands within 

 the California Desert Conservation Area shall be 

 subject to such reasonable regulations as the Secre- 

 tary may prescribe to effectuate the purposes of 

 this section. Any patent issued on any such mining 

 claim shall recite this limitation and continue to be 

 subject to such regulations. Such regulations shall 

 provide for such measures as may be reasonable to 

 protect the scenic, scientific, and environmental 

 values of the public lands of the California Desert 

 Conservation Area against undue impairment, and 

 to assure against pollution of the streams and 



