§ 460a-7. — Coordination of recreational development on parkway and national forest lands; administration of forest land recreational facilities and access road development by Secretary of Agriculture; forest road and Appalachian Trail relocation and reconstruction and alternative forest road provision by Secretary of the Interior.
[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-7]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXV--NATIONAL PARKWAYS
Sec. 460a-7. Coordination of recreational development on parkway
and national forest lands; administration of forest land
recreational facilities and access road development by Secretary
of Agriculture; forest road and Appalachian Trail relocation and
reconstruction and alternative forest road provision by
Secretary of the Interior
To effectuate the recommendations in the report to the Congress on
the North Carolina-Georgia extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway, made
pursuant to the Act of August 10, 1961 (75 Stat. 337)--
(1) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
Agriculture shall, insofar as practicable, coordinate and correlate
recreational development on lands within the parkway and adjacent or
related national forests land: Provided, That within national forest
boundaries recreational developments and facilities on Federal lands
other than those actually within the national parkway shall be
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) Upon the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, the
Secretary of the Interior shall relocate and reconstruct any
national forest roads that may be disturbed by the parkway
extension, or provide alternative roads that are necessary to the
protection, administration, or utilization of the national forests,
and shall allow access to areas to be developed by the Secretary of
Agriculture on adjacent national forest lands unless to do so will
materially impair the primary purposes of the parkway;
(3) The Secretary of the Interior may relocate and reconstruct
portions of the Appalachian Trail, including trail shelters, that
may be disturbed by the parkway extension and such relocation and
reconstruction may be performed (A) on non-Federal lands when the
Appalachian Trail Conference obtains the consent of the owner to the
use of the lands for the purpose and agrees to assume maintenance
thereof, and (B) upon national forest lands with the approval of the
Secretary of Agriculture.
(Pub. L. 90-555, Sec. 2, Oct. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 968.)
References in Text
Act of August 10, 1961, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 87-135, Aug.
10, 1961, 75 Stat. 337, which was not classified to the Code.
