16 U.S.C. § 460bbb–10 — Savings provision

(a) Activities on lands outside of recreation area: Nothing in this subchapter limits, restricts, or requires specific management practices on land outside the recreation area's boundary. The fact that outside activities or uses can be seen, heard, or otherwise perceived from within the recreation area doesn't, by itself, limit, restrict, or preclude those outside activities or uses, right up to the recreation area's boundary. (b) Prior rights: (1) Nothing in this subchapter limits, restricts, or precludes carrying out valid timber sale contracts or other contracts or agreements the Secretary signed before November 16, 1990. (2) Except as this subchapter specifically provides, nothing in it is to be construed as reducing or giving up any right, title, or interest the United States already holds in land, water, or interests within the recreation area's boundaries. (c) Road easements: Nothing in this subchapter affects California's or its political subdivisions' responsibilities regarding road easements, including maintaining and improving State Highway 199 and County Route 427. (d) Rights of access: Existing rights provided under federal law for private landowners to access their land across National Forest System land are not affected by this subchapter. (e) Entitlement moneys: For the first two full fiscal years after November 16, 1990, the Secretary must annually pay local governments within the recreation area an amount equal to the difference between what they'd receive under the Act of May 23, 1908 and the average amount paid for that purpose under that Act during the five fiscal years before November 16, 1990. This payment is reduced by 10 percent each following fiscal year, until it reaches zero by the end of the twelfth fiscal year after November 16, 1990. This payment program expires 11 years after the first payment is made under it.