16 U.S.C. § 460aa–1 — Administration

submitted 54 years ago by Pub. L. 92-400 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 194 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary must run the Sawtooth Recreation Area under national forest rules, protecting fisheries, scenic and historic values, and managing timber, grazing, and minerals without hurting the area's purposes. The Sawtooth Wilderness Area replaces the old Sawtooth Primitive Area and follows whichever rule is stricter — this law or the Wilderness Act.

(a) Recreation area: The Secretary must run the recreation area under the laws, rules, and regulations that apply to national forests, in a way that best does three things: (1) protects and conserves salmon and other fish; (2) conserves and develops scenic, natural, historic, pastoral, wildlife, and other values for public recreation and enjoyment — including preserving sites tied to the economic and social history of the American West; and (3) manages, uses, and disposes of natural resources on federally owned land — like timber, grazing, and minerals — as long as doing so doesn't seriously hurt the reasons the recreation area was established. (b) Wilderness area: The Sawtooth Wilderness Area replaces the old Sawtooth Primitive Area. It must be run under both this law and the Wilderness Act — whichever rule is stricter applies. Any reference in the Wilderness Act to its own effective date is instead treated as a reference to the date this law took effect.

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(a) Recreation area

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 (1) the protection and conservation of the salmon and other fisheries; (2) the conservation and development of scenic, natural, historic, pastoral, wildlife, and other values, contributing to and available for public recreation and enjoyment, including the preservation of sites associated with and typifying the economic and social history of the American West; and (3) the management, utilization, and disposal of natural resources on federally owned lands such as timber, grazing, and mineral resources insofar as their utilization will not substantially impair the purposes for which the recreation area is established.

(b) Wilderness area

The lands designated as the Sawtooth Wilderness Area, which supersedes the Sawtooth Primitive Area, shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and the provisions of the Wilderness Act [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.], whichever is more restrictive, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this subchapter.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 92–400, § 2, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 612.)

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1972Enacted · Pub. L. 92-400 · 86 Stat. 612

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