16 U.S.C. § 460mm–4 — Administration of recreation area
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-487 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 384 words · no verdicts yet
This law tells the Secretary how to run the White Mountains National Recreation Area. The goal is public recreation along with conserving scenery, wildlife, and history. Most land there is closed to new mining and state land claims, with limited exceptions.
(a) Recreation, conservation, and resource development: The Secretary must manage the White Mountains National Recreation Area to provide public outdoor recreation and to conserve its scenic, scientific, historic, and fish-and-wildlife values. Except where this Act says otherwise, the Secretary decides what best achieves (1) public recreation benefits, (2) conserving those scenic, scientific, historic, and wildlife values, and (3) managing, using, and disposing of natural resources — and continuing existing uses and developments — in ways that support, fit with, or don't seriously hurt recreation and conservation. To do this, the Secretary may use any legal authority available for managing natural resources, however it best fits recreation, preservation, and compatible resource development.
(b) Withdrawal of lands from selection and mining: Subject to existing valid rights, land in the recreation area is withdrawn from state selection under the Alaska Statehood Act or other law, and from new mining claims and patents. Under reasonable regulations, the Secretary may allow removing non-leasable minerals (under section 387 of title 43) and leasable minerals (under mineral leasing laws), if doing so would not significantly hurt how the recreation area is run.
(c) Disposal of receipts: Money collected from mineral leasing permits and leases in the recreation area is handled the way those mineral leasing laws require. Money from selling non-leasable minerals is handled the same way as money from selling public land.
The White Mountains National Recreation area established by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary in order to provide for public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment and for the conservation of the scenic, scientific, historic, fish and wildlife, and other values contributing to public enjoyment of such area. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Secretary shall administer the recreation area in a manner which in his judgment will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation benefits; (2) conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, fish and wildlife, and other values contributing to public enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of natural resources and the continuation of such existing uses and developments as will promote, or are compatible with, or do not significantly impair public recreation and conservation of the scenic, scientific, historic, fish and wildlife, or other values contributing to public enjoyment. In administering the recreation area, the Secretary may utilize such statutory authorities available to him for the conservation and management of natural resources as he deems appropriate for recreation and preservation purposes and for resource development compatible therewith.
The lands within the recreation area, subject to valid existing rights, are hereby withdrawn from State selection under the Alaska Statehood Act or other law, and from location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws. The Secretary under such reasonable regulations as he deems appropriate, may permit the removal of the nonleasable minerals from lands or interests in lands within the recreation area in the manner described by section 387 of title 43, and he may permit the removal of leasable minerals from lands or interests in lands within the recreation areas in accordance with the mineral leasing laws, if he finds that such disposition would not have significant adverse effects on the administration of the recreation areas.
All receipts derived from permits and leases issued on lands or interest in lands within the recreation area under the mineral leasing laws shall be disposed of as provided in such laws; and receipts from the disposition of nonleasable minerals within the recreation area shall be disposed of in the same manner as moneys received from the sale of public lands.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–487, title XIII, § 1312, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2483.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-487 · 94 Stat. 2483
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