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(d) lands within the national forest system identified for further planning in Executive Communication 1504, Ninety-sixth Congress (House Document Numbered 96-119) are hereby withdrawn from disposition under all laws pertaining to oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite, and geothermal leasing, and all amendments thereto, until one year after the date of final approval and implementation of an initial forest plan covering the further planning area concerned pursuant to the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976: Provided, however, That if any further planning

area is recommended for wilderness in such initial plan it shall remain withdrawn for the period specified for

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SEC. 3. The withdrawal and other provisions of this Act 20 shall not apply to—

(a) any national forest system land released to management for any uses the Secretary concerned deems appropriate through the land management planning process by any statewide or other Act of Con

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(b) lands designated as congressional wilderness study areas in Colorado by sections 105 and 106 of the

Act of December 22, 1980 (Public Law 96-560), lands

designated as congressional wilderness study areas in New Mexico by section 103 of the Act of December 19, 1980 (Public Law 96-550), or to lands within the River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho, which are sub

ject to section 4(d)(1) of the Central Idaho Wilderness Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-312);

(c) Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas, which have been identified pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act

of 1976 (Public Law 94-579); or

(d) lands in the State of Alaska.

PROSPECTING AND INVENTORIES

SEC. 4. (a) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Secre

19 tary of Agriculture or Interior from issuing under their exist20 ing authority in any area of national forest or public lands 21 withdrawn pursuant to section 2 of this Act such permits as 22 may be necessary to conduct prospecting, seismic surveys, 23 and core sampling conducted by helicopter or other means 24 not requiring construction of roads or improvement of exist25. ing roads or ways, for the purpose of gathering information

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1 about and inventorying energy, mineral, and other resource 2 values of such area, if such activity is carried out in a manner 3 compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environ4 ment: Provided, however, That seismic activities involving 5 the use of explosives shall not be permitted in designated 6 wilderness areas.

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(b) The Secretary of the Interior shall augment recur8 ring surveys of the mineral values of wilderness areas pursu9 ant to section 4(d)(2) of the Wilderness Act and acquire 10 information on other national forest and public land areas 11 withdrawn pursuant to this Act, by conducting, in conjunc12 tion with the Secretary of Energy, the national laboratories, 13 or other Federal agencies, as appropriate, such mineral in14 ventories of areas withdrawn pursuant to section 2 of this 15 Act as he deems appropriate. These inventories shall be con16 ducted in a manner compatible with the preservation of the 17 wilderness environment through the use of methods including 18 core sampling conducted by helicopter; geophysical tech19 niques such as induced polarization, synthetic aperture radar, 20 magnetic and gravity surveys; geochemical techniques includ21 ing stream sediment reconnaissance and X-ray defraction 22 analysis; land satellites; or any other methods he deems ap23 propriate. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized 24 to conduct inventories or segments of inventories, such as 25 data analysis activities, by contract with private entities

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1 deemed by him to be qualified to engage in such activities 2 whenever he has determined that such contracts would de

3 crease Federal expenditures and would produce comparable 4 or superior results.

5 (c) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 6 Agriculture may prescribe such regulations, as they deem 7 necessary, to insure that confidential, privileged, or propri8 etary information obtained by them or any officer or em9 ployee of the United States under this Act is not disclosed.

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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS

SEC. 5. (a) At any time after the date of enactment of 12 this Act, the President may transmit a recommendation to 13 Congress that minerals prospecting, exploration, develop14 ment, or extraction not permitted under this Act shall be per15 mitted in a specified area or areas withdrawn pursuant to 16 section 2 of this Act. Notice of such transmittal shall appear 17 in the Federal Register and shall be conveyed to the Gover18 nor of the State in which the area or areas are located.

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(1) a report setting forth in detail the relevant factual background and the reasons for his findings and

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(2) a statement of the conditions and stipulations which would govern the recommended activity; and

(3) in any case in which an environmental impact statement is required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, a statement which complies

with the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of that Act. (d) Any recommendation made pursuant to this section 15 shall take effect only upon enactment of a joint resolution 16 approving such recommendation.

SEC. 6. All provisions of this Act shall be subject to

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21 issue oil and gas leases for the subsurface of national forest or 22 public land wilderness areas that are immediately adjacent to 23 producing oil and gas fields or areas that are prospectively 24 valuable. Such leases shall allow no surface occupancy and 1 may be entered only by directional drilling from outside the 2 wilderness or other nonsurface disturbing methods.

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