16 U.S.C. § 410ff–3 — Administration

(a) Authority: The Secretary must run the park under the 1916 National Park Service Act, and may use whatever authority is appropriate for wildlife and resource conservation to carry out this law's purposes. The park must be run on a low-intensity, limited-entry basis. (b) Limited visitor use: Because the park's resources are especially fragile and sensitive, Congress intends visitor use to be limited enough to cause only negligible harm. The Secretary must set appropriate visitor carrying capacities. (c) Comprehensive general management plan: (1) Within three complete fiscal years of March 5, 1980, the Secretary, working with the Nature Conservancy and California, had to send the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee a comprehensive general management plan, following the criteria in section 100502 of title 54. The plan had to consider a public transportation system connecting the park to the mainland, developed with California and the Secretary of Transportation, and the Secretary had to seek scientific advice and hold public hearings in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. (2) Any part of the plan dealing with marine mammals had to be written by the Secretary of Commerce, working with the Secretary and California.