16 U.S.C. § 460n–1 — Boundaries of area; filing of map with Federal Register; revision; donations of land; property acquisition and exclusion

submitted 62 years ago by Pub. L. 88-639 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 466 words · no verdicts yet

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area's boundaries follow a specific 1963 map. The Secretary can revise those boundaries later, but the total size can't grow. The Secretary can also trade, buy, or accept donated land here, as long as any exchange trades roughly equal value.

The Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers the specific land and water shown on a map called "boundary map, RA–LM–7060–B, revised July 17, 1963." That map is kept on file and open for public inspection at a National Park Service office. An exact copy also had to be filed with the Federal Register within 30 days after October 8, 1964, and stays available for public inspection at the recreation area's superintendent's headquarters. The Secretary of the Interior can revise the boundaries later, but the total acreage after any revision can never be bigger than it was before. Whenever the boundaries change this way, the Department of the Interior must prepare new maps, file them the same way, and make them available for public inspection using the same process. The Secretary can accept donated land and land interests inside the area's boundaries, or acquire property in whatever way the Secretary thinks serves the public interest. When trading property, the Secretary can accept non-federal land inside the boundaries and, in return, hand the person who gave that land some federal property the Secretary controls — no matter what any other law says. Traded properties must be worth about the same. To even out the values, the Secretary can pay cash to the other party, or accept cash from them. Creating or changing the boundaries this way can't hurt any valid rights that already exist in the area, and it can't affect the validity of any land already withdrawn for reclamation or power purposes. Any land in the area that the United States withdrew or acquired for reclamation stays available for reclamation and power use, for as long as it's still withdrawn or needed for that. Finally, the Secretary of the Interior must exclude from the recreation area any property that the Bureau of Reclamation needs to manage or protect — even if that property would otherwise belong inside the recreation area — whenever the Secretary decides excluding it serves the national interest.

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area shall comprise that particular land and water area which is shown on a certain map, identified as “boundary map, RA–LM–7060–B, revised July 17, 1963”, which is on file and which shall be available for public inspection in the office of the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior. An exact copy of such map shall be filed with the Federal Register within thirty days following October 8, 1964, and an exact copy thereof shall be available also for public inspection in the headquarters office of the superintendent of the said Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to revise the boundaries of such national recreation area, subject to the requirement that the total acreage of that area, as revised, shall be no greater than the present acreage thereof. In the event of such boundary revision, maps of the recreation area, as revised, shall be prepared by the Department of the Interior, and shall be filed in the same manner, and shall be available for public inspection also in accordance with the aforesaid procedures and requirements relating to the filing and availability of maps. The Secretary may accept donations of land and interests in land within the exterior boundaries of such area, or such property may be procured by the Secretary in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest.

In exercising his authority to acquire property by exchange, the Secretary may accept title to any non-Federal property located within the boundaries of the recreation area and convey to the grantor of such property any federally owned property under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, notwithstanding any other provision of law. The properties so exchanged shall be approximately equal in fair market value: Provided, That the Secretary may accept cash from or pay cash to the grantor in such an exchange in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.

Establishment or revision of the boundaries of the said national recreation area, as herein prescribed, shall not affect adversely any valid rights in the area, nor shall it affect the validity of withdrawals heretofore made for reclamation or power purposes. All lands in the recreation area which have been withdrawn or acquired by the United States for reclamation purposes shall remain subject to the primary use thereof for reclamation and power purposes so long as they are withdrawn or needed for such purposes. There shall be excluded from the said national recreation area by the Secretary of the Interior any property for management or protection by the Bureau of Reclamation, which would be subject otherwise to inclusion in the said recreation area, and which the Secretary of the Interior considers in the national interest should be excluded therefrom.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 88–639, § 2, Oct. 8, 1964, 78 Stat. 1039.)

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1964Enacted · Pub. L. 88-639 · 78 Stat. 1039

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