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position under all laws pertaining to minerAl leasing 

 and all amendments thereto. 



Water resources, reservoirs, and other facilities; 

 grazing. 



(4) Within wilderness areas in the national forests 

 designated by this chapter, (1) the President may, 

 within a specific area and in accordance with such 

 regulations as he may deem desirable, authorize pros- 

 pecting for water resources, the establishment and 

 maintenance of reservoirs, water-conservation 

 works, power projects, transmission lines, and other 

 facilities needed m the public interest, including 

 the road construction and maintenance essential to 

 development and use thereof, upon his determina- 

 tion that such use or uses in the specific area will bet- 

 ter serve the interests of the United States and the 

 people thereof than will its denial: and (2) the graz- 

 ing of livestock, where established prior to September 

 3, 1964, shall be permitted to continue subject to such 

 reasonable regulations as are deemed necessary by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. • 



Management of Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Su- 

 perior National Forest, Minnesota; motorboats. 



(5) Other provisions of this chapter to the con- 

 trary notwithstanding, the management of the 

 Boundary Waters Canoe Area, formerly designated 

 as the Superior, Little Indian Sioux, and Caribou 

 Roadless Areas, in the Superior National Forest, 

 Minnesota, shall be in accordance with regulations 

 established by the Secretary of Agriculture in ac- 

 cordance with the general purpose of maintaining, 

 without unnecessary restrictions on other uses, in- 

 cluding that of timber, the primitive character of 

 the area, particularly in the vicinity of lakes, streams, 

 and portages: Provided, That nothing in this chap- 

 ter shall preclude the continuance within the area 

 of any already established use of motorboats. 

 Commercial services. 



(6) Commercial services may be performed with- 

 in the wilderness areas designated by this chapter 

 to the extent necessary for activities which are 

 proper for realizing the recreational or other wilder- 

 ness purposes of the areas. 



State water laws exemption. 



(7) Nothing in this chapter shall constitute an 

 express or implied claim or denial on the part of the 

 Federal Government •as to exemption from State 

 water laws. 



State jurisdiction of wildlife and fish in national 



forests. 

 <8) Nothing in this chapter shall be Qonstrued as 

 affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the 

 several States with respect to wildlife and fish in the 

 national forests. (Pub. L. 88-577, § 4, Sept. 3, 1964, 

 78 Stat. 893.) 

 §1134. State and private lands within wilderness 



areas. 



(a) Access; exchange of lands; mineral interests 

 restriction. 

 In any case where State-owned or privately owned 

 land is completely surrounded by national forest 

 lands within areas designated by this chapter as 

 wilderness, such State or private owner shall be 

 given such rights as may be necessary to assure 

 adequate access to such State-owned or privately 

 owned land by such State or private owner and their 



successors in interest, or the State-owned land or 

 privately owned land shall be exchanged for fed- 

 erally owned land in the same State of approxi- 

 mately equal value under authorities available to 

 the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, however. 

 That the United States shall not transfer to a State 

 or private owner any mineral interests unless the 

 State or private owner relinquishes or causes to be 

 relinquished to the United States the mineral inter- 

 est in the surrounded land. 



(b) Customary means for ingress and egress to wilder- 

 ness areas subject to minmg claims or other 

 occupancies. 



In any case where valid mining claims or other 

 valid occupancies are wholly within a designated 

 national forest wilderness area, the Secretary of 

 Agriculture shall, by reasonable regulations con- 

 sistent with the preservation of the area as wilder- 

 ness, permit ingress and egress to such surrounded 

 areas by means which have been or are being cus- 

 tomarily enjoyed with respect to other such areas 

 similarly situated. 



(c) Acquisition of lands. 



Subject to the appropriation of funds by Congress, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to ac- 

 quire privately owned land within the perimeter of 

 any area designated by this chapter as wilderness 

 if (1) the owner concurs in such acquisition or (2) 

 the acquisition is sptecifically authorized by Congress. 

 (Pub. L. 88-577, § 5, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 896.) 



§1135. Gifts, bequests, and contributions. 



(a) The Secretary of Agriculture may accept gifts 

 or bequests of land within wilderness areas desig- 

 nated by this chapter for preservation as wilderness. 

 The Secretary of Agriculture may also accept gifts 

 or bequests of land adjacent to wilderness areas des- 

 ignated by this chapter for preservation as wilder- 

 ness if he has given sixty days advance notice thereof 

 to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives. Land accepted by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture under this section shall be- 

 come part of the wilderness area involved. Regula- 

 tions with regard to any such land may be in ac- 

 cordance with such agrements, consistent with the 

 policy of this chapter, as are made at the time of 

 such gift, or such conditions, consistent with such 

 policy, as may be included in, and accepted with, 

 such bequest. 



(b) The Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary 

 of the Interior is authorized to accept private con- 

 tributions and gifts to be used to further the pur- 

 poses of this chapter. (Pub. L. 88-577, § 6, Sept. 3, 

 1964, 78 Stat. 896.) 



§1136. Annual reports to Congress. 



At the opening of each session of Congress, the 

 Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior shall jointly 

 report to the President for transmission to Congress 

 on the status of the wilderness system, including a 

 list and descriptions of the areas in the system, 

 regulations in effect, and other pertinent informa- 

 tion, together with any recommendations they may 

 care to make. (Pub. L. 88-577, § 7, Sept. 3, 1964, 

 78 Stat. 896.) 



