[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR35.5]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                          INTERIOR--(Continued)
 
PART 35--WILDERNESS PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart A--General Rules
 
Sec. 35.5  Commercial enterprises, roads, motor vehicles, motorized equipment, 
motorboats, aircraft, mechanical transport, structures, and installations.

    Except as specifically provided and subject to existing private 
rights, there shall be no commercial enterprise and no permanent road 
within a wilderness unit, and except as necessary to meet

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minimum requirements for the administration of the area (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 form of mechanized transport, and no structure or 
installation within any such area.
    (a) The Director may authorize occupancy and use of a national 
wildlife refuge by officers, employees, agencies, and agents of Federal, 
State, and county governments to carry out the purposes of the 
Wilderness Act and the Act establishing the wilderness and will 
prescribe conditions under which motorized equipment, mechanical 
transport, aircraft, motorboats, installations, or structures may be 
used to meet the minimum requirements for authorized activities to 
protect and administer the wilderness. The Director may also prescribe 
the conditions under which such equipment, transport, aircraft, 
installations, or structures may be used in emergencies involving the 
health and safety of persons, damage to property, violations of civil 
and criminal law, or other purposes.
    (b) The Director may permit, subject to such restrictions as he 
deems desirable, the landing of aircraft and the use of motorized 
equipment at places within a wilderness where such uses were established 
prior to the date the wilderness was designated by Act of Congress as a 
unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System.