16 U.S.C. § 1134 — State and private lands within wilderness areas

(a) Access; exchange of lands; mineral interests restriction In any case where State-owned or privately owned land is completely surrounded by national forest lands within areas designated by this chapter as wilderness, that State or private owner must be given that rights as may be necessary to assure adequate access to that State-owned or privately owned land by that State or private owner and their successors in interest, or the State-owned land or privately owned land must be exchanged for federally owned land in the same State of about equal value under authorities available to the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, however , That the United States must not transfer to a State or private owner any mineral interests unless the State or private owner relinquishes or causes to be relinquished to the United States the mineral interest in the surrounded land. (b) Customary means for ingress and egress to wilderness areas subject to mining claims or other occupancies In any case where valid mining claims or other valid occupancies are wholly within a designated national forest wilderness area, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, by reasonable regulations consistent with the preservation of the area as wilderness, permit ingress and egress to that surrounded areas by means which have been or are being customarily enjoyed about other that areas similarly situated. (c) Acquisition of lands Subject to the appropriation of funds by Congress, the Secretary of Agriculture is allow to acquire privately owned land within the perimeter of any area designated by this chapter as wilderness if (1) the owner concurs in that acquisition or (2) the acquisition is specifically allow by Congress.