16 U.S.C. § 460hhh–4 — Management plan

(a) In general. (1) Procedures. Within three full fiscal years after August 4, 1993, the Secretary must develop a general management plan for the Recreation Area, as an amendment to the Toiyabe National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. This amendment must reflect that the Recreation Area now exists and must be consistent with this subchapter — but nothing in this subchapter requires the Secretary to fully revise the Toiyabe Forest Plan under section 1604 of this title. The parts of the national forest plan relating to the Recreation Area must also be available to the public in a document separate from the rest of the forest plan. (2) Contents. The Secretary must develop the plan with full public participation, and it must include: (A) plans for an ongoing program of public interpretation and education about the Recreation Area's resources and values; (B) proposals for public facilities — developed, expanded, or improved — for the Recreation Area, including one or more visitor centers for local and out-of-state visitors; (C) plans for managing natural and cultural resources in the Recreation Area, emphasizing the preservation and long-term scientific use of archaeological resources, with priority given to enforcing the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and the National Historic Preservation Act within the Recreation Area; (D) wildlife and fish resource management plans for the Recreation Area, prepared with appropriate Nevada state departments and using other available studies of the Recreation Area; (E) recreation management plans for the Recreation Area, made with appropriate Nevada state departments; (F) wild horse and burro herd management plans for the Recreation Area, made with appropriate Nevada state departments and commissions; and (G) an inventory of all land within the Recreation Area not currently managed as National Forest land, so the Secretary can evaluate possible future purchases. (3) Consultation. The natural and cultural resource management plans described in paragraph (2)(C) must be prepared with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the Nevada State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. (b) Wilderness study areas. (1) Recommendations. The general management plan for the Recreation Area must include the Bureau of Land Management's recommendations on whether the Mt. Stirling, La Madre Mountains, and Pine Creek Wilderness Study Areas — shown on the Bureau of Land Management's Wilderness Status Map, dated March 1990 — are suitable or unsuitable for permanent wilderness protection. (2) Management. Until a recommendation is submitted, and until Congress passes an act saying otherwise, the Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, must manage the land and water within those wilderness study areas so as to keep them eligible for the National Wilderness Preservation System.