§ 79m. — Annual reporting requirements; contents; comprehensive general management plan; submission date and scope.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC79m]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VII--REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 79m. Annual reporting requirements; contents; comprehensive
general management plan; submission date and scope
(a) The Secretary shall submit an annual written report to the
Congress on January 1, 1979, and annually thereafter for ten years,
reporting on the status of payment by the Secretary for real property
acquired pursuant to section 79c(b)(1) and section 79b of this title;
the status of the actions taken regarding land management practices and
watershed rehabilitation efforts authorized by section 79c(e) and
section 79k(b) of this title; the status of the efforts to mitigate
adverse economic impacts as directed by this Act; this \1\ status of
National Park Service employment requirements as authorized by section
79l of this title; the status of the new bypass highway and of the
agreement for the donation of the State park lands as contemplated by
section 79c(b)(2) of this title; and, the status of the National Park
Service general management plan for the park.
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\1\ So in original. Probably should be ``the''.
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(b) No later than January 1, 1980, the Secretary shall submit to the
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of
Representatives, and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of
the Senate, a comprehensive general management plan for Redwood National
Park, to include but not be limited to the following:
(1) the objectives, goals, and proposed actions designed to
assure the preservation and perpetuation of a natural redwood forest
ecosystem;
(2) the type and level of visitor use to be accommodated by the
park, by specific area, with specific indications of carrying
capacities consistent with the protection of park resources;
(3) the type, extent, and estimated cost of development proposed
to accommodate visitor use and to protect the resource, to include
anticipated location of all major development areas, roads, and
trails; and
(4) the specific locations and types of foot trail access to the
Tall Trees Grove, of which one route shall, unless shown by the
Secretary to be inadvisable, principally traverse the east side of
Redwood Creek through the essentially virgin forest, connecting with
the roadhead on the west side of the park east of Orick.
(Pub. L. 95-250, title I, Sec. 104, Mar. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 170.)
References in Text
Section 79c(b)(1) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in
the original ``section 101(a)(4) . . . of this amendment'', meaning
section 101(a)(4) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended section 79c(b)(1) of
this title.
Section 79b of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ``section 101(a)(2) of this amendment'', meaning section
101(a)(2) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended subsecs. (a) and (b), and
added subsec. (c), of section 79b of this title.
Section 79c(e) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ``section 101(a)(6) . . . of this amendment'', meaning section
101(a)(6) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended section 79c(e) of this title.
Section 79k(b) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ``section 102(b) of this amendment'', meaning section 102(b) of
Pub. L. 95-250, which enacted section 79k(b) of this title.
This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), means Pub. L. 95-250, Mar. 27,
1978, 92 Stat. 163, as amended, which, insofar as classified to the
Code, enacted sections 79c-1, 79k to 79q of this title, amended sections
1a-1, 79b, and 79c of this title, and enacted provisions set out as a
note under section 79k of this title. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Section 79l of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ``section 102 of this amendment'', meaning section 103 of Pub.
L. 95-250, which enacted section 79l of this title.
Section 79c(b)(2) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in
the original ``section 101(a)(5) of this amendment'', meaning section
101(a)(5) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended section 79c(b)(2) of this
title.
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of Pub. L. 90-545, Oct. 2, 1968, 82
Stat. 931, which comprises this subchapter.
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.
Reference to Secretary as Reference to Secretary of Department of the
Interior; Exception
Reference to Secretary, unless otherwise indicated, as reference to
Secretary of Department of the Interior, see section 109 of Pub. L. 95-
250, set out as a note under section 79k of this title.
