§ 460a-6. — Blue Ridge Parkway extension; acceptance of lands; public use, administration, and maintenance areas; survey location of parkway extension crossing national forest land; transfer from Federal agency to administrative jurisdiction of Secretary of the Interior; national forest uses following transfer within national forest.
[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-6]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXV--NATIONAL PARKWAYS
Sec. 460a-6. Blue Ridge Parkway extension; acceptance of lands;
public use, administration, and maintenance areas; survey
location of parkway extension crossing national forest land;
transfer from Federal agency to administrative jurisdiction of
Secretary of the Interior; national forest uses following
transfer within national forest
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept, on behalf of
the United States, donations of land and interests in land in the States
of North Carolina and Georgia, to construct thereon an extension of the
Blue Ridge Parkway from the vicinity of Beech Gap, North Carolina, to
the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park north of
Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia, and to provide public use,
administration, and maintenance areas in connection therewith. The lands
accepted for the parkway extension may vary in width but shall average
not more than one hundred and twenty-five acres per mile in fee simple
plus not more than twenty-five acres per mile in scenic easements. The
survey location and width of any portion of the parkway extension that
crosses national forest land shall be jointly determined by the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. Where the
parkway extension designated by the Secretary of the Interior traverses
Federal lands, the head of the department or agency having jurisdiction
over such lands is authorized to transfer to the Secretary of the
Interior the part of the Federal lands mutually agreed upon as necessary
for the construction, maintenance and administration of the parkway
extension and public use thereof, without transfer of funds. Any such
transfer within a national forest shall not preclude any national forest
use that is compatible with parkway use and that is agreed upon by the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture.
(Pub. L. 90-555, Sec. 1, Oct. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 967.)
