16 U.S.C. § 460zzz–2: Dominguez Canyon…

Summary

About 66,280 acres of public land in Mesa, Montrose, and Delta Counties, Colorado, are now set aside as the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area and added to the National Wilderness Preservation System. The Secretary must manage the area under the Wilderness Act and this law, with two changes: whenever the Wilderness Act mentions its effective date, use March 30, 2009, and whenever it mentions the Secretary of Agriculture, read that as the Secretary of the Interior.

Title 16, §460zzz–2

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(a)In general

In accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the approximately 66,280 acres of public land in Mesa, Montrose, and Delta Counties, Colorado, as generally depicted on the Map, is designated as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, to be known as the “Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area”.

(b)Administration of Wilderness

The Wilderness shall be managed by the Secretary in accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this subchapter, except that—

(1)any reference in the Wilderness Act to the effective date of that Act shall be considered to be a reference to March 30, 2009; and

(2)any reference in the Wilderness Act to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be considered to be a reference to the Secretary of the Interior.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables. Codification Section is comprised of section 2403 of Pub. L. 111–11. section 2403 also enacted provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title.

§460zzz–2 Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area