§ 460rr-2. — 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: 16USC460rr-2]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER CIII--PINE RIDGE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
Sec. 460rr-2. Administration
(a) Objectives
Subject to valid existing rights, the Pine Ridge National Recreation
Area designated by this subchapter shall be administered by the
Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with 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) preservation and protection of forest, aquatic and grassland
habitat;
(3) 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;
(4) the continuation of existing livestock grazing uses;
(5) the control of noxious weeds and insects and prevention of
their spreading onto the nearby private and Federal lands; and
(6) the control of fires and prevention of their spreading onto
nearby private and Federal lands.
(b) Fire control; Memorandum of Agreement
The Secretary shall enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with local
and State firefighting agencies and individuals to assure the best
utilization of the firefighting resources available in the nearby
communities for control of fire in the national recreation area.
(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 Nebraska.
(d) Mining and mineral leasing laws
Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within the
national recreation area are hereby withdrawn from location, entry, and
patent under the United States mining laws, and from disposition under
all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing and all amendments
thereto.
(e) State responsibilities with respect to wildlife and fish unaffected
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as affecting the
jurisdiction or responsibilities of the State of Nebraska with respect
to wildlife and fish in the national recreation area.
(f) Comprehensive management plan
Within eighteen months after October 20, 1986, 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 Energy and Natural Resources of
the United States Senate a comprehensive management plan for the
national recreation area designated by this subchapter.
(g) Public participation in development of management plan
In conducting the reviews and preparing the comprehensive management
plan required by subsection (d) \1\ of this section, the Secretary shall
provide for full public participation, and shall consider the views of
all interested agencies, organizations, and individuals.
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\1\ So in original. Probably should be subsection ``(f)''.
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(Pub. L. 99-504, title II, Sec. 203, Oct. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 1804.)
References in Text
The United States mining laws and the mineral leasing laws, referred
to in subsec. (d), are classified generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands
and Mining.
Geothermal leasing laws, referred to in subsec. (d), are classified
principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of Title 30.
This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (e), was in the original
``this Act'', meaning Pub. L. 99-504, Oct. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 1802,
known as the Nebraska Wilderness Act of 1985, 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.
