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velopment prior to the completion of the final multipurpose resource development plan.

(5) The Secretary shall publish a notice of the completion of the multipurpose resource development plan or a portion thereof in the Federal Register and shall transmit it to the President and to the Senate and House of Representatives. The completed multipurpose resource development plan or relevant portions thereof shall be implemented by the Secretary no earlier than ninety days and no later than one hundred and fifty calendar days from the date of such transmittal.

(e) The Secretary shall prepare a wilderness management plan for the Gospel-Hump Wilderness designated pursuant to this section, taking into account the findings of the comprehensive fish and game research program.

(f) Within thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall include the timber resources on the lands identified on the map referenced in this section as "Development Areas" and "Management Areas" within the annual allowable timber harvest level for the Nezperce National Forest.

(g) Nothing in this Act shall prevent within the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area any activity, including prospecting, for the purpose of gathering information about mineral or their resources, if such activity is carried on in a manner compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment. Furthermore, in accordance with such program as the Secretary of the Interior shall develop and conduct in consultation with the Secretary, the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area shall be surveyed on a planned recurring basis consistent with the concept of wilderness preservation by the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present, and the results of such surveys shall be made available to the public and submitted to the President and the Congress.

(h) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated after October 1, 1978, such funds as may be necessary to carry out the comprehensive fish and game research program and the multipurpose resource development plan authorized under this section. Appropriations requests by the President to implement the multipurpose resource development plan shall express in qualitative and quantitative terms the most rapid and judicious manner and methods to achieve the purposes of this Act. Amounts appropriated to carry out this Act shall be expended in accordance with the Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 297).

ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS

SEC. 5. Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness area designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act: Provided, 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 Act: Provided further, That with respect to the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area designated by section 4(a)(1) of this Act, all references under section 4(d)(3) of the Wilderness Act of 1964 to December 31, 1983, shall be deemed to be December 31, 1988, and any reference to January 1, 1984, shall be deemed to be January 1, 1989:

Provided, however, That all activities resulting from the exercise of valid existing mineral rights on patented or unpatented mining claims within the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area shall be subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary as he deems necessary or desirable for the preservation and management of this area.

FILING OF MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS

SEC. 6. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, a map and a legal description of each wilderness area shall be filed with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, and each such map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in each such legal description and map may be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

PART IV-MISCELLANEOUS

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT OF 19721

AN ACT To establish the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, to provide for the preparation and carrying out of a development plan for certain areas between the White House and the Capitol, to further the purposes of which the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site was designated, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972".

SEC. 2. The Congress finds and declares

(a) that it is in the national interest that the area adjacent to Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, most of which was designated on September 30, 1965, as a national historic site under the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.), be developed, maintained, and used in a manner suitable to its ceremonial, physical, and historic relationship to the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government and to the governmental buildings, monuments, memorials, and parks in or adjacent to the area; (b) that the area adjacent to Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House, because of its blighted character, imposes severe public, economic, and social liabilities upon the District of Columbia as the seat of the government of the United States, thereby impeding its sound growth and development and constituting a serious and growing threat to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare of its inhabitants;

(c) that to insure suitable development, maintenance, and use of the area and the elimination of blight, it is essential that there be developed and carried out as an entirety plans for this area which will specify the uses, both public and private, to which property is to be put, the programming and financing of necessary acquisitions, construction, reconstruction, and other activities;

(d) that such duties and responsibilities can best be developed and carried out by vesting the requisite powers in a Federal corporation which can take maximum advantage of the private as well as the public resources which will be necessary; (e) that the powers conferred by this Act are for public uses and purposes for which public powers may be employed, public funds may be expended, and the power of eminent domain and

1 The Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 871-885), as set forth herein, consists of Public Law 92-578 (Oct. 27, 1972) and the amendments made by: Public Law 93-198 (Dec. 24, 1973); Public Law 93-427 (Oct. 1, 1974); Public Law 94-388 (Aug. 14, 1976); and Public Law 95-629 (Nov. 10, 1978).

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