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§90e–2 Map and Legal Description, Filing with Congressional Committees; Correction of Errors; Applicability of Wilderness Act

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER X — NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK › § 90e–2

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

After October 2, 1968, the Secretary of Agriculture must file maps and written descriptions of the Pasayten Wilderness and the changed parts of the Glacier Peak Wilderness with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee. Small clerical or typing mistakes in those maps or descriptions can be fixed. Once those maps and descriptions are filed, the Pasayten area and the Glacier Peak additions must be managed under the rules of the Wilderness Act. Whenever the Wilderness Act mentions its own start date, treat that as the start date for this law too.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §90e–2

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(a)As soon as practicable after October 2, 1968, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the Pasayten Wilderness and of the Glacier Peak Wilderness, as hereby modified, with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter: Provided, however, That correction of clerical or typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made.
(b)Upon the filing of the legal descriptions and maps as provided for in subsection (a) of this section the Pasayten Wilderness and the additions to the Glacier Peak Wilderness shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.] and thereafter shall be subject to the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this subchapter.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), 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.

Effective Date

of the Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), means the date of enactment, Sept. 3, 1964, of such Act.

Effective Date

of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b), means the date of enactment, Oct. 2, 1968, of this subchapter.

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives”.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 90e–2

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102