16 U.S.C. § 460iii–2 — Establishment

(a) In general. (1) This section establishes the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area. (2) The conservation area exists, and must be managed, to conserve, protect, and improve raptor populations and habitats and the related natural and environmental resources and values, and the scientific, cultural, and educational resources and values, of the public lands in the conservation area. (3) Subject to subsection (d) of this section and section 460iii–3 of this title, uses of the public lands in the conservation area that existed on August 4, 1993, may continue. (b) Area included. The conservation area consists of about 482,457 acres of federally owned lands and interests in land, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, shown on a map titled "Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area," dated November 1991. (c) Map and legal description. As soon as practical after August 4, 1993, the Secretary must file the map described in subsection (b) and a legal description of the conservation area with the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Each such map has the same legal force as if it were included in this subchapter, though the Secretary may correct clerical and typographical errors in it. Each map must be kept on file and open for public inspection at Bureau of Land Management offices — in the office of the Director and of the Idaho State Director. (d) Withdrawals. Subject to valid existing rights, federal lands within the conservation area are withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, and from entry, application, and selection under the Desert Lands Act, section 641 of title 43, the State of Idaho Admissions Act, section 851 of title 43, and section 852 of title 43. The Secretary must return, without further action, any applications pending under those laws as of August 4, 1993. Also subject to valid existing rights, as of August 4, 1993, lands within the Birds of Prey Conservation Area are withdrawn from location under the general mining laws, and from the mineral and geothermal leasing laws and the mineral material disposal laws — except that mineral materials subject to disposal may still be made available from existing sites, to the extent that fits the purposes for which the conservation area is established.