§ 460aa-13. — Area analysis for park or park administrative unit proposal.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460aa-13]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXXXV--SAWTOOTH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
Sec. 460aa-13. Area analysis for park or park administrative
unit proposal
(a) Report to Congress
The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with appropriate
Federal, State, and local agencies, shall make a comprehensive analysis
of the natural, economic, and cultural values of the recreation area and
the adjacent Pioneer Mountains for the purpose of evaluating the
potentiality of establishing therein a national park or other unit of
the national park system. He shall submit a report of the results of the
analysis along with his recommendations to the Congress by December 31,
1974.
(b) Considerations manifested in report to Congress
His report shall show that in making the aforesaid recommendations
he took into consideration, among other things--
(1) the feasible alternative uses of the land and the long- and
short-term effect of such alternative uses upon, but not limited to,
the following--
(A) the State and local economy,
(B) the natural and cultural environment,
(C) the management and use of water resources,
(D) the management of grazing, timber, mineral, and other
commercial activities,
(E) the management of fish and wildlife resources,
(F) the continued occupancy of existing homesites,
campsites, commercial and public recreation enterprises, and
other privately owned properties and the future development of
the same,
(G) the interrelation between recreation areas, wilderness
areas and park lands, and
(2) the establishment of a national park in the mountain peaks
and upland areas together with such portions of the national
recreation area as may be necessary and appropriate for the proper
administration and public use of and access to such parks lands,
leaving the valleys and low-lying lands available for multiple-use
purposes.
(c) Master plan, cost estimates and proposed legislation for
establishment of park administrative unit
Any recommendation for the establishment of a unit of the national
park system shall be accompanied by (1) a master plan for the
development and administration of such unit, indicating proposed
boundaries, access or other roads, visitor facilities, and proposed
management concepts applicable to such unit; (2) a statement of the
estimated Federal cost for acquisition, development, and operation of
such unit; and (3) proposed legislation for establishment of such park
administrative unit.
(d) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated not more than $50,000 to
carry out the provisions of this section.
(Pub. L. 92-400, Sec. 14, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 615.)
