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Shamberger, Hugh A., president, National Reclamation Association_
Smith, Anthony Wayne, president and general counsel, National
Parks Association_

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Udall, Hon. Stewart L., Secretary of the Interior_
Zahniser, Howard, executive director and editor, the Wilderness
Society; accompanied by Stewart Brandborg, associate director;
and Michael Nadel, assistant executive director

Zimmerman, William, Jr., representing the Sierra Club___

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STATEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Daddario, Hon. Emilio Q., a Representative in Congress from the State of
Connecticut__

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COMMUNICATIONS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Adirondack Mountain Club, Inc.--

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Garland, John Jewett, Southern California Committee for the Olympic
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Report on H.R. 8659, to provide for the establishment of Sawtooth
Wilderness National Park in the State of Idaho, and for other pur-
poses--.

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San Gorgonio Wild Area, steps taken by the Forest Service with re-
gard to special-use permit__ _

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Wilderness-type areas in national forests---

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Chart-Background analysis and comparison of major provisions of pend-
ing legislation.

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Dingell, Representative John D., letter of April 15, 1964, to Chairman
Aspinall regarding proposed amendments to H.R. 9162_
Reply of April 20, 1964, from Chairman Aspinall__

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WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM

MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1964

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS

OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS,

Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:55 a.m., in the committee room, 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Honorable Walter S. Baring (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Mr. BARING. The Subcommittee on Public Lands will come to order for the further consideration of legislation to establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and other purposes.

We have before us 23 bills introduced by 16 Members of the House of Representatives. The difference in numbers arises from the fact that many Members have in recent months introduced modified versions of the bills they originally introduced. In addition, there is before the subcommittee S. 4, which passed the Senate April 6, 1963. Without objection, H.R. 9070, by Mr. Saylor and H.R. 9162, by Mr. Dingell, together with S. 4, will be printed in the record at this point; and, without objection, we will also include at this point in the record reference to all of the bills pending before the subcommittee, indicating the author of each.

These bills are H.R. 295 by Mr. Bennett of Florida; H.R. 930 by Mr. Saylor; H.R. 991 by Mr. Cohelan; H.R. 1023 by Mr. Baldwin; H.R. 1114 by Mr. Reuss; H.R. 2001 by Mr. Dingell; H.R. 2530 by Mr. O'Hara of Illinois; H.R. 2880 by Mr. Hosmer; H.R. 2894 by Mr. Miller of California; H.R. 3878 by Mr. Quie; H.R. 5246 by Mr. Shelley; H.R. 5808 by Mr. Wydler; H.R. 7877 by Mr. Lindsay; H.R. 9070 by Mr. Saylor; H.R. 9101 by Mr. Quie; H.R. 9162 by Mr. Dingell; H.R. 9163 by Mr. Reuss; H.R. 9164 by Mr. O'Hara of Illinois; H.R. 9165 by Mr. Bennett of Florida; H.R. 9520 by Mr. Cohelan; H.R. 9558 by Mr. Udall; H.R. 10630 by Mr. Conte; H.R. 10752 by Mrs. St. George; and S. 4.

Further, without objection, there will be printed in the record at this point the reports from the Bureau of the Budget, the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Army, and of the Federal Power Commission, setting forth the views of those departments and the Commission on this legislation.

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(The bills, reports, and documents follow :)

[H.R. 9070, 88th Cong., 1st sess.]

A BILL To establish a National Wilderness Preservation System for the permanent good of the whole people, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SHORT TITLE

SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Wilderness Act".

WILDERNESS SYSTEM ESTABLISHED STATEMENT OF POLICY

SEC. 2. (a) In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness. For this purpose there is hereby established a National Wilderness Preservation System to be composed of federally owned areas designated by Congress as "wilderness areas", and these shall be administered for the use and enjoyment of the American people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for future use and enjoyment as wilderness, and so as to provide for the protection of these areas, the preservation of their wilderness character, and for the gathering and dissemination of information regarding their use and enjoyment as wilderness; and no Federal lands shall be designated as "wilderness areas" except as provided for in this Act or by a subsequent Act.

DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS

(b) A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permament improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land and is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value. For the purposes of this Act wilderness shall include the areas provided for in this Act and such other areas as shall be designated in accordance with its provisions.

NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SYSTEM-EXTENT OF SYSTEM

SEC. 3. (a) All areas within the national forests classified on the effective date of this Act by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Chief of the Forest Service as "wilderness", "wild", or "canoe" are hereby designated as wilderness areas. The Secretary of Agriculture shall

(1) Within one year after the effective date of the Act, file a map and legal description of each wilderness area with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made.

(2) Maintain, available to the public, records, pertaining to said wilderness areas, including maps and legal descriptions, copies of regulations governing them, copies of public notices of, and reports submitted to Congress regarding pending additions, eliminations, or modifications. Maps, legal descriptions, and regulations pertaining to wilderness areas within their

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