§542d Comprehensive management plan

Summary

Creates a research area of approximately 31,000 acres, including a main research facility of approximately 1,000 acres. The boundaries are shown on a map titled "Langmuir Research Site" dated August 1980, which is available at the Forest Service office. The Secretary of Agriculture must, as soon as practicable after December 19, 1980, prepare a comprehensive management plan that follows the National Forest Management Act and is added to the initial Cibola National Forest plan. The Secretary may make small boundary changes after giving written notice to two congressional committees, but any change cannot add or remove more than 7,000 acres. In making the plan, the Secretary must consult the National Science Foundation, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, the New Mexico Academy of Science, and appropriate conservation, wilderness, wildlife, industry, and public interest groups. The plan must set clear goals and manage the site mainly for scientific research while allowing compatible uses (such as dispersed recreation and grazing), permitting research activities, equipment, and structures where allowed, limiting roads and motor vehicle use to those needed and listed in the plan, and allowing landing of small instrumented research rockets in areas the plan designates.