§ 460ggg-2. — Recreation area.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460ggg-2]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER CXVIII--ED JENKINS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AND COOSA BALD
NATIONAL SCENIC AREA
Sec. 460ggg-2. Recreation area
(a) Designation and purposes
For the purposes of ensuring the protection of certain natural,
scenic, fish and wildlife, historic and archaeological, wildland and
watershed values, and providing for the enhancement of the recreation
opportunities associated with these values, certain lands in the
Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, which comprise approximately
23,330 acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Springer
Mountain National Recreation Area--Proposed'', dated October 1991, are
hereby designated as a national recreation area and shall be known as Ed
Jenkins National Recreation Area (hereafter in this section referred to
as the ``recreation area'').
(b) Administration
(1) Subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall administer
the recreation area in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations
applicable to the national forests in such a way as to further the
purposes of this section. Except as provided in this section, the
Secretary may not conduct timber harvesting in the recreation area. The
Secretary may remove timber in the recreation area in furtherance of
this section, but only in a manner which does not impair the purposes
for which the recreation area is established. Salvage or sanitation
harvesting of timber stands which are substantially damaged by fire,
windthrow or other catastrophe, or are in imminent danger from insect or
disease attack, is authorized to maintain forest health. Timber
harvesting is authorized to provide for visitor safety.
(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the completion of existing
timber sales under contract. The Secretary may permit additional road
construction in the area in furtherance of the purposes for which the
recreation area is established.
(3) By virtue of the designation under this section, the Secretary
need not change patterns of public access or closure on existing
permanent national forest development roads. At his discretion, however,
the Secretary may open or close such existing roads to public use for
reasons of sound resource management.
(4) Lands within the recreation area are hereby withdrawn from the
operation of all laws pertaining to mineral leasing.
(5) The Secretary may permit, in his discretion, the continued
maintenance of existing wildlife openings, in cooperation with the State
of Georgia and other Federal, State, and private cooperators, and may
permit new wildlife openings in furtherance of the purposes for which
the recreation area is established.
(6) The Secretary shall protect, enhance, and promote the public's
opportunities for primitive and semiprimitive recreation in the
recreation area.
(7) Designation by this section shall not interfere with rights of
access to privately held lands.
(Pub. L. 102-217, Sec. 4, Dec. 11, 1991, 105 Stat. 1668; Pub. L. 102-
456, Sec. 2, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2264.)
References in Text
The laws pertaining to mineral leasing, referred to in subsec.
(b)(4), are classified generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
Amendments
1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-456 substituted ``Ed Jenkins National
Recreation Area'' for ``Springer Mountain National Recreation Area''.
