16 U.S.C. § 271c — Access roads
submitted 62 years ago by Pub. L. 88-590 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 398 words · no verdicts yet
This law lets the Secretary of the Interior build entrance roads into Canyonlands National Park from nearby highways. The Secretary can buy land for the roads, limited to about 125 acres per mile, and build them to parkway standards. Roads crossing national forest land need the Secretary of Agriculture's approval.
(a) Entrance roads and connections; administrative headquarters sites — The Secretary can choose where to put an entrance road or roads into Canyonlands National Park, and to points of interest inside it, connecting from U.S. Route 160 and State Routes 24 and 95. This includes choosing sites outside the park for entrances and related administrative headquarters. The Secretary can also choose locations outside the park to connect different entrance roads to each other, or to connect roads that lie inside the park.
(b) Acquisition of lands; authority of Secretary; rights-of-way acreage limitation; administration — To build these roads, the Secretary can acquire non-federal land or land rights by donation, purchase, condemnation, exchange, or any other means the Secretary decides serve the public interest. But land acquired outside the park as right-of-way for these entrance roads and connections cannot average more than 125 acres per mile. The Secretary can issue special regulations to administer these rights-of-way and headquarters sites.
(c) Parkway standards for entrance roads and connections; approval of Secretary of Agriculture for construction of roads crossing national forest land — The Secretary can build, rebuild, improve, and maintain entrance roads and connections — including any needed bridges, other structures, and utilities — built to parkway standards, using money appropriated for the National Park Service. If any part of a road crosses national forest land, the Secretary must get the Secretary of Agriculture's approval before starting construction on that part.
(d) Forest road; cooperation of Secretary of the Interior with Secretary of Agriculture; extension — The Secretary can work with the Secretary of Agriculture to locate and extend a forest development road starting from State Route 95, and can extend that road from the national forest boundary into the park and to points of interest there, following this section's other rules.
In order to provide suitable access to the Canyonlands National Park and facilities and services required in the operation and administration of the park, the Secretary may select the location or locations of an entrance road or roads to such park and to points of interest therein from United States Route 160 and State Routes 24 and 95, including necessary entrance and related administrative headquarters sites upon lands located outside the park, and he may select a suitable location or locations outside the park for connections between entrance roads and between roads lying within the Canyonlands National Park.
To carry out the purposes of this section, the Secretary may acquire non-Federal lands or interests in lands by donation, purchase, condemnation, exchange, or such other means as he may deem to be in the public interest: Provided, That lands and interests in lands acquired outside the park as rights-of-way for said entrance roads and connections shall not exceed an average of one hundred twenty-five acres per mile. Rights-of-way and entrance and administrative sites acquired pursuant to this authority shall be administered pursuant to such special regulations as the Secretary may promulgate in furtherance of the purposes of this section.
The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, improve, and maintain upon the lands or interests in lands acquired pursuant to this section, or otherwise in Government ownership, an entrance road or roads and connections of parkway standards, including necessary bridges and other structures and utilities as necessary, and funds appropriated for the National Park Service shall be available for these purposes: Provided, That if any portion of such road or roads crosses national forest land the Secretary shall obtain the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture before construction of such portion shall begin.
The Secretary is hereby authorized to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in the location and extension of a forest development road from State Route 95 and may extend the same from the national forest boundary to the park and points of interest therein in accordance with the applicable provisions of this section.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 88–590, § 4, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 938.)
- 1964Enacted · Pub. L. 88-590 · 78 Stat. 938
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