§ 460a-2. — Blue Ridge Parkway; establishment; administration and maintenance.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460a-2]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXV--NATIONAL PARKWAYS
Sec. 460a-2. Blue Ridge Parkway; establishment; administration
and maintenance
All lands and easements heretofore or hereafter conveyed to the
United States by the States of Virginia and North Carolina for the
right-of-way for the projected parkway between the Shenandoah and Great
Smoky Mountains National Parks, together with sites acquired or to be
acquired for recreational areas in connection therewith, and a right-of-
way for said parkway of a width sufficient to include the highway and
all bridges, ditches, cuts, and fills appurtenant thereto, but not
exceeding a maximum of two hundred feet through Government-owned lands
(except that where small parcels of Government-owned lands would
otherwise be isolated, or where topographic conditions or scenic
requirements are such that bridges, ditches, cuts, fills, parking
overlooks, landscape development, recreational and other facilities
requisite to public use of said parkway could not reasonably be confined
to a width of two hundred feet, the said maximum may be increased to
such width as may be necessary, with the written approval of the
department or agency having jurisdiction over such lands) as designated
on maps heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary of the
Interior, shall be known as the Blue Ridge Parkway and shall be
administered and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior through the
National Park Service, subject to the provisions of sections 1, 2, 3,
and 4 of this title, the provisions of which sections, as amended and
supplemented, are extended over and made applicable to said parkway:
Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, to connect with the
parkway such roads and trails as may be necessary for the protection,
administration, or utilization of adjacent and nearby national forests
and the resources thereof: And provided further, That the Forest Service
and the National Park Service shall, insofar as practicable, coordinate
and correlate such recreational development as each may plan, construct,
or permit to be constructed, on lands within their respective
jurisdictions which, by mutual agreement, should be given special
treatment for recreational purposes.
(June 30, 1936, ch. 883, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 2041; June 8, 1940, ch. 277,
54 Stat. 249.)
Amendments
1940--Act June 8, 1940, inserted exceptions set out in parenthesis.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Functions of Administrator of General Services transferred to
Secretary of Commerce by Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1949, Sec. 2, eff. Aug.
20, 1949, 14 F.R. 5228, 63 Stat. 1070, set out in the Appendix to Title
5.
Functions, powers, and duties of Secretary of Commerce and other
officers and offices of Department of Commerce relating generally to
highways under Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1949 transferred to and vested in
Secretary of Transportation by Pub. L. 89-670, Sec. 6(a)(1)(M), Oct. 15,
1966, 80 Stat. 938. Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1949 was amended by section
2(b) of Pub. L. 97-449, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2439, to reflect such
transfer.
Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof,
together with functions of Federal Works Administrator transferred to
Administrator of General Services by section 103(a) of act June 30,
1949, ch. 288, title I, 63 Stat. 380. Both Federal Works Agency and
office of Federal Works Administrator abolished by section 103(b) of
that act. See text of, and Historical and Revision Notes under, section
303(b) of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.
Effective Date of Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, as effective July 1,
1949, see section 605, formerly Sec. 505, of act June 30, 1949, ch. 288,
63 Stat. 403; renumbered by act Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Sec. 6(a), (b),
64 Stat. 583.
