§ 459e-6. — Administration, protection, and development.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC459e-6]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
Sec. 459e-6. Administration, protection, and development
(a) Conservation of natural resources of Seashore; preservation and
access to Sunken Forest Preserve
The Secretary shall administer and protect the Fire Island National
Seashore with the primary aim of conserving the natural resources
located there. The area known as the Sunken Forest Preserve shall be
preserved from bay to ocean in as nearly its present state as possible,
without developing roads therein, but continuing the present access by
those trails already existing and limiting new access to similar trails
limited in number to those necessary to allow visitors to explore and
appreciate this section of the seashore.
(b) Access to Davis Park-Smith Point County Park area
Access to that section of the seashore lying between the easterly
boundary of the Ocean Ridge portion of Davis Park and the westerly
boundary of the Smith Point County Park shall be provided by ferries and
footpaths only, and no roads shall be constructed in this section except
such minimum roads as may be necessary for park maintenance vehicles. No
development or plan for the convenience of visitors shall be undertaken
therein which would be incompatible with the preservation of the flora
and fauna or the physiographic conditions now prevailing, and every
effort shall be exerted to maintain and preserve this section of the
seashore as well as that set forth in the preceding paragraph in as
nearly their present state and condition as possible.
(c) Utilization of authority for conservation and development of natural
resources; user fees
In administering, protecting, and developing the entire Fire Island
National Seashore, the Secretary shall be guided by the provisions of
sections 459e to 459e-9 of this title and the applicable provisions of
the laws relating to the national park system, and the Secretary may
utilize any other statutory authority available to him for the
conservation and development of natural resources to the extent he finds
that such authority will further the purposes of sections 459e to 459e-9
of this title. Appropriate user fees may be collected notwithstanding
any limitation on such authority by any provision of law.
(Pub. L. 88-587, Sec. 7, Sept. 11, 1964, 78 Stat. 931; Pub. L. 95-625,
title III, Sec. 322(c), Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3489.)
Amendments
1978--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95-625 substituted ``Ocean Ridge portion
of Davis Park'' for ``Brookhaven town park at''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 459e-1, 459e-2, 459e-5,
459e-7, 459e-9 of this title.
