§460iii–5 Other Laws and Administrative Provisions

Summary

Other federal laws keep applying to the conservation area. The Endangered Species Act and the National Trails System Act still govern those lands. Laws that normally apply to public lands — for example the National Historic Preservation Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act — also apply unless this law says otherwise. Lands that were not managed by the Bureau of Land Management on August 4, 1993 keep their status. The Secretary may hire qualified people to grow plants and seeds on public lands in the area to help restore vegetation under the management plan. Congress says the lands set aside by Public Land Order 5133 in October 1971 for the Snake River Birds of Prey were studied and found unsuitable for wilderness, so they are released from further wilderness consideration under section 1782 of title 43. Public Land Orders 5133 (October 12, 1971) and 5777 (November 21, 1980) are revoked, except as explained below. The United States is already in a court case about Snake River water rights, so this law does not create or reserve any water or water rights. Nothing here gives up or reduces any water rights the United States held or claimed on or before August 4, 1993. The Secretary and other U.S. officers must take all steps needed to protect the United States’ claimed water rights in the Snake River case now pending in the Idaho district court, where the United States is joined under section 666 of title 43.