§ 460pp. — Establishment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460pp]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER CI--MOUNT BAKER RECREATION AREA
Sec. 460pp. Establishment
(a) In general
In order to assure the conservation and protection of certain
natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, and fish and wildlife values and to
provide for the enhancement of the recreational values associated
therewith, the Mount Baker National Recreation Area located in the Mount
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, is hereby established.
(b) Acreage
The Mount Baker National Recreation Area (hereafter referred to as
the ``recreation area'') shall comprise approximately eight thousand six
hundred acres as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Mount Baker
National Recreation Area--Proposed'', dated March 1984, which shall be
on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief,
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
(c) Map and legal description
The Secretary of Agriculture shall, as soon as practicable after
July 3, 1984, file a map and a legal description of the recreation area
with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States
Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of
Representatives, and each such map and legal description shall have the
same force and effect as if included in this subchapter: Provided, That
correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal
description and map may be made. The map and legal description shall be
on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief
of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
(d) Administration
The Secretary shall administer the recreation area in accordance
with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the national forests
in such manner as will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation
(including but not limited to snowmobile use); (2) conservation of
scenic, natural, historic, and other values contributing to public
enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of natural
resources on federally owned lands within the recreation area which are
compatible with and which do not significantly impair the purposes for
which the recreation area is established.
(Pub. L. 98-339, Sec. 7, July 3, 1984, 98 Stat. 304.)
References in Text
This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original
``this Act'', meaning Pub. L. 98-339, July 3, 1984, 98 Stat. 299, known
as the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984, which enacted this
subchapter and provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out
under section 1132 of this title. For complete classification of this
Act to the Code, see Tables.
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.
