16 U.S.C. § 460ii–4 — Funding sources and general management plan

(a) Funding. (1) Limitation on use of appropriated funds. From the appropriations authorized for fiscal year 1978 and later years under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, no more than $115,000,000 may be spent acquiring land and interests in land authorized under this subchapter. For section 200306(a)(4) of title 54, this subsection's spending ceiling counts as a statutory ceiling enacted before the Ninety-sixth Congress convened. (2) Donations. The Secretary may accept a donation of money, land, or an interest in land to carry out this subchapter. (3) Relation to other funding sources. The money in paragraph (1) is in addition to funding and land donations from the State of Georgia, local government authorities, private foundations, corporate entities, and individuals for this subchapter's purposes. (b) Authorization of appropriations for development of essential public services. Starting October 1, 1978, Congress authorizes up to $500,000 for developing essential public facilities. (c) General management plan. (1) Initial plan. Within seven years after August 15, 1978, the Secretary, after consulting Georgia's governor, must develop and send the House Committee on Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources a general management plan for using and developing the recreation area, consistent with this subchapter's and chapter 43's findings and purposes. It must show: (A) land next to or related to the recreation area needed for resource protection, scenic integrity, or managing the area, its estimated purchase cost, and the recommended public acquisition agency; (B) the number of visitors and types of public use the recreation area can handle while fully protecting its resources; and (C) the facilities needed to accommodate and give access to those visitors and uses, including their location and estimated cost. (2) Revised plan. (A) In general. Within 3 years after funding becomes available, the Secretary must submit to the same committees a revised general management plan to protect, improve, enjoy, develop, and use the recreation area. (B) Public participation. While preparing the revised plan, the Secretary must encourage participation from Georgia, affected political subdivisions, private landowners, interested citizens, public officials, groups, agencies, educational institutions, and others. (d) Federal actions affecting corridor area; procedural requirements. (1) Whenever a federal department, agency, or instrumentality plans to undertake an action, provide federal assistance for an action, or issue a license or permit for an action within the corridor described in section 460ii of this title that may directly and adversely affect the recreation area's natural or cultural resources, that agency's head must: (A) promptly notify the Secretary of the action while planning it or preparing an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement for it under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; (B) give the Secretary a reasonable chance to comment and make recommendations about the action's effect on the recreation area's natural and cultural resources; and (C) notify the Secretary of the specific decisions made about the Secretary's comments and recommendations. These steps must follow procedures the responsible federal agency establishes, which may reuse procedures it developed under the National Environmental Policy Act. (2) After receiving notice under paragraph (1)(A), the Secretary, after consulting Georgia's governor, must make whatever comments and recommendations he thinks appropriate under paragraph (1)(B), as promptly as practical, following the notifying agency's procedures. If the Secretary does not provide comments and recommendations under paragraph (1)(B), he must notify the appropriate congressional committees in writing. (3) After receiving the notifying agency's decisions under paragraph (1)(C), the Secretary must send the appropriate congressional committees — including the authorizing committees with primary jurisdiction over the program involved — a copy of the agency's specific decisions, along with a copy of the Secretary's comments and recommendations. (4) If the Secretary has not been notified of a federal agency's proposed action within the corridor, but decides on his own that it may significantly and adversely affect the recreation area's natural or cultural resources, he must notify that agency's head in writing. Once notified, the agency must promptly follow subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1). (5) Any agency or instrumentality of the United States conducting a federal action on federally owned land or water that the Secretary manages within the recreation area's authorized boundary may not begin that action until the Secretary has agreed to it. (6) The following major, necessary emergency actions are exempt from this subsection: (A) actions necessary to safeguard life and property; (B) actions necessary to respond to a declared disaster; (C) actions necessary to respond to an imminent threat to national security; and (D) actions the Secretary has determined are not inconsistent with the recreation area's general management plan. Actions that are part of a project recommended in the "Metropolitan Atlanta Water Resources Management Study, Georgia: Report of Chief of Engineers," dated June 1, 1982, any federal action about controlling airspace regulated under the Clean Air Act, or any action required to maintain or repair existing structures or facilities, are also exempt from this subsection.