Marvin Mandel, Governor                        1583

(i) The purposes of this Act are hereby declared to be within
and supplemental to the purposes for which State forests and units
of the State park and wildlife refuge systems are established and
administered and

(1)    Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to be in interference
with the purpose for which State forests are established.

(2)    Nothing in this Act shall modify the statutory authority
under which units of the State park system are created. Further,
the designation of any area of any park, monument, or other unit
of the State park system as a wildlands shall in no manner lower
the standards evolved for the use and preservation of such a park,
monument, or other unit of the State park system.

(j) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, each agency ad-
ministering any area designated as wildlands shall be responsible
for preserving the wildland character of the area and shall so
administer such area for such other purposes for which it may have
been established as also to preserve its wildland character. Except
as otherwise provided in this Act, wildland areas shall be devoted
to the public purposes of recreational, scenic, scientific, educational,
conservation, and historical use.

(k) Except as specifically provided for in this Act, and subject
to existing private rights, there shall be no commercial enterprise
and no permanent road except fire roads within any wildland area
designated by this Act and, except as necessary to meet minimum
requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of
this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the
health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no
temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or
motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other forms of mechanical
transport, and no structure or installation within any such area.

(l) Within wildland areas designated by this Act the use of
motorboats, where such has already become established, may be per-
mitted to continue subject to such restrictions as the Secretary of
Natural Resources deems desirable. In addition, such measures may
be taken as may be necessary in the control of fire, insects, and
diseases, subject to such conditions as the Secretary deems desirable.
These regulations shall be adopted within one year after the effec-
tive date of this Act.

(m) Within STATE wildland areas designated by this Act, the
Governor may, within a specific area and in accordance with such reg-
ulations as he may deem desirable, authorize prospecting for water
resources, and recommend the establishment and maintenance of
reservoirs, water conservation works, power projects, transmission
lines, and other facilities needed in the public interest, including
the road construction and maintenance essential to development and
use thereof, upon his determination that such use or uses in the
specific area will better serve the interests of Maryland and the people
thereof than will its denial. Such recommendations shall be made
after public notice of such a proposal and public hearing or hearings
as provided for in Section (g). The proposed developments shall then
become effective only by Act of the General Assembly.

(n) In any case where privately owned land is completely sur-
rounded by areas designated by this Act as STATE wildland, such