§ 460nn-3. — Administration.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460nn-3]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XCIX--WHITE ROCKS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
Sec. 460nn-3. Administration
(a) Objectives
Subject to valid existing rights, the White Rocks National
Recreation Area designated by this subchapter shall be administered by
the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the findings and purpose
of this subchapter and the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to
the national forests in a manner compatible with the following
objectives:
(1) the continuation of existing primitive and semiprimitive
recreational use in a natural environment;
(2) utilization of natural resources shall be permitted only if
consistent with the findings and purposes in this subchapter;
(3) preservation and protection of forest and aquatic habitat
for fish and wildlife; and
(4) protection and conservation of special areas having uncommon
or outstanding wilderness, biological, geological, recreational,
cultural, historical or archeological, and scientific, or other
values contributing to the public benefit.
(b) Mineral leasing laws
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, federally-owned lands
within the White Rocks National Recreation Area as designated by this
subchapter are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under
the mineral leasing laws, including all laws pertaining to geothermal
leasing, and all amendments thereto.
(c) Hunting, fishing, and trapping
The Secretary shall permit hunting, fishing, and trapping on lands
and waters under the Secretary's jurisdiction within the boundaries of
the national recreation area designated by this subchapter in accordance
with applicable laws of the United States and the State of Vermont.
(d) Comprehensive management plan
Within eighteen months after June 19, 1984, the Secretary shall
develop and submit to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and
the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of
Representatives and to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry of the United States Senate a comprehensive management plan for
the national recreation area designated by this subchapter.
(e) Public participation in development of management plan
In conducting the reviews and preparing the comprehensive management
plan required by subsection (d) of this section, the Secretary shall
provide for full public participation, shall consider the views of all
interested agencies, organizations, and individuals, and shall
particularly emphasize the values enumerated in section 460nn(a)(4) of
this title.
(Pub. L. 98-322, title II, Sec. 204, June 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 257.)
References in Text
The mineral leasing laws, referred to in subsec. (b), are classified
generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
Geothermal leasing laws, referred to in subsec. (b), are classified
principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of Title 30.
Change of Name
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
