---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 90e–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "90e–2"
heading: "Map and legal description, filing with Congressional committees; correction of errors; applicability of Wilderness Act"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/90e-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter X — North Cascades National Park"
---

# §90e–2. Map and legal description, filing with Congressional committees; correction of errors; applicability of Wilderness Act

- (a) As soon as practicable after October 2, 1968, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture shall file a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description of the Pasayten [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) and of the Glacier Peak [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13), as hereby modified, with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter: Provided, however, That correction of clerical or typographical errors in such legal descriptions and [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) may be made.
- (b) Upon the filing of the legal descriptions and [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) as provided for in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section the Pasayten [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) and the [additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the Glacier Peak [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act [[16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.] and thereafter shall be subject to the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated by that Act as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–544, title VI, § 603, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 930; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(e), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4585.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.

Effective date of the Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (b), means the date of enactment, Sept. 3, 1964, of such Act.

Effective date of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b), means the date of enactment, Oct. 2, 1968, of this subchapter.

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives”.