§ 271c. — Access roads.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC271c]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XXIX--CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 271c. Access roads
(a) Entrance roads and connections; administrative headquarters sites
In order to provide suitable access to the Canyonlands National Park
and facilities and services required in the operation and administration
of the park, the Secretary may select the location or locations of an
entrance road or roads to such park and to points of interest therein
from United States Route 160 and State Routes 24 and 95, including
necessary entrance and related administrative headquarters sites upon
lands located outside the park, and he may select a suitable location or
locations outside the park for connections between entrance roads and
between roads lying within the Canyonlands National Park.
(b) Acquisition of lands; authority of Secretary; rights-of-way acreage
limitation; administration
To carry out the purposes of this section, the Secretary may acquire
non-Federal lands or interests in lands by donation, purchase,
condemnation, exchange, or such other means as he may deem to be in the
public interest: Provided, That lands and interests in lands acquired
outside the park as rights-of-way for said entrance roads and
connections shall not exceed an average of one hundred twenty-five acres
per mile. Rights-of-way and entrance and administrative sites acquired
pursuant to this authority shall be administered pursuant to such
special regulations as the Secretary may promulgate in furtherance of
the purposes of this section.
(c) Parkway standards for entrance roads and connections; approval of
Secretary of Agriculture for construction of roads crossing
national forest land
The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, improve, and maintain upon
the lands or interests in lands acquired pursuant to this section, or
otherwise in Government ownership, an entrance road or roads and
connections of parkway standards, including necessary bridges and other
structures and utilities as necessary, and funds appropriated for the
National Park Service shall be available for these purposes: Provided,
That if any portion of such road or roads crosses national forest land
the Secretary shall obtain the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture
before construction of such portion shall begin.
(d) Forest road; cooperation of Secretary of the Interior with Secretary
of Agriculture; extension
The Secretary is hereby authorized to cooperate with the Secretary
of Agriculture in the location and extension of a forest development
road from State Route 95 and may extend the same from the national
forest boundary to the park and points of interest therein in accordance
with the applicable provisions of this section.
(Pub. L. 88-590, Sec. 4, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 938.)
