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[H.R. 539 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]


        H.R.539

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the fourth day of January, two thousand and five


                                 An Act


 
To designate certain National Forest System land in the Commonwealth of 
   Puerto Rico as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
                                 System.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Caribbean National Forest Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
        (1) Map.--The term ``map'' means the map dated April 13, 2004, 
    and entitled ``El Toro Proposed Wilderness Area''.
        (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    Agriculture.

SEC. 3. WILDERNESS DESIGNATION, CARIBBEAN NATIONAL FOREST, PUERTO RICO.

    (a) El Toro Wilderness.--
        (1) In general.--In furtherance of the purposes of the 
    Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the approximately 10,000 
    acres of land in the Caribbean National Forest/Luquillo 
    Experimental Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as generally 
    depicted on the map are designated as wilderness and as a component 
    of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
        (2) Designation.--The land designated in paragraph (1) shall be 
    known as the El Toro Wilderness.
        (3) Wilderness boundaries.--The El Toro Wilderness shall 
    consist of the land generally depicted on the map.
    (b) Map and Boundary Description.--
        (1) In general.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
    enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall--
            (A) prepare a boundary description of the El Toro 
        Wilderness; and
            (B) submit the map and the boundary description to the 
        Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
        Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives.
        (2) Public inspection and treatment.--The map and the boundary 
    description prepared under paragraph (1)(A)--
            (A) shall be on file and available for public inspection in 
        the office of the Chief of the Forest Service; and
            (B) shall have the same force and effect as if included in 
        this Act.
        (3) Errors.--The Secretary may correct clerical and 
    typographical errors in the map and the boundary description 
    prepared under paragraph (1)(A).
    (c) Administration.--
        (1) In general.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
    Secretary shall administer the El Toro Wilderness in accordance 
    with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this Act.
        (2) Effective date of wilderness act.--With respect to the El 
    Toro Wilderness, any reference in the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 
    1131 et seq.) to the effective date of that Act shall be deemed to 
    be a reference to the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Special Management Considerations.--Consistent with the 
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), nothing in this Act precludes 
the installation and maintenance of hydrologic, meteorological, 
climatological, or atmospheric data collection and remote transmission 
facilities, or any combination of those facilities, in any case in 
which the Secretary determines that the facilities are essential to the 
scientific research purposes of the Luquillo Experimental Forest.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.