16 U.S.C. § 460ii–2 — Administration, protection, and development

(a) Applicability of statutory provisions; consideration of Federal, State, and local plans. The Secretary must administer, protect, and develop the recreation area under the Act of August 25, 1916, and under any other statutory authority available to him for conserving and managing historic and natural resources — including fish and wildlife — whenever he decides that authority will further this subchapter's purposes. While developing and administering the recreation area, the Secretary must consider applicable federal, state, and local recreation plans and resource use and development plans, including, but not limited to, the Atlanta Regional Commission's Chattahoochee Corridor Study, dated July 1972. (b) Cooperative agreements. The Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the State of Georgia, its political subdivisions, and other entities, to keep land acquisition, planning, design, construction, and operation of the recreation area standardized. (c) Consultation with Secretary of Army. While planning the recreation area's development and public use, the Secretary must consult the Secretary of the Army, to make sure public use of nearby or related Army water-resource-development or flood-control projects works well together with public use of the recreation area. (d) Establishment, regulations governing, etc., of fishing zones. In administering the recreation area, the Secretary may permit fishing in waters he controls, following applicable state and federal laws and regulations. After consulting the appropriate state agency responsible for fishing activities, the Secretary may designate zones where, and set periods when, fishing is allowed, and issue whatever regulations he thinks are necessary for this purpose. Except in emergencies, such regulations may only take effect after that state consultation.