16 U.S.C. § 460ooo–5 — Management plan
submitted 26 years ago by Pub. L. 106-538 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 594 words · no verdicts yet
This section requires the Secretary to write a management plan for the Las Cienegas Conservation Area within two years. The plan must cover resource protection, education, facilities, and grazing, developed with Arizona agencies and public input.
(a) Plan required. Within two years of December 6, 2000, the Secretary*, through the Bureau of Land Management, must develop and start using a full management plan* for the Conservation Area's public lands*, to fulfill the purposes named in section 460ooo–3(a). Consistent with this subchapter, the plan must be developed: (1) with Arizona's wildlife and land management agencies, with full public participation; (2) based on the October 2000 draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem Management Plan/EIS, as it applies to federal land or land with conservation easements; and (3) following the resource goals from the Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership process, giving full consideration to that group's preferred management option, for the same lands.
(b) Contents. The management plan must include: (1) provisions protecting the resources and values named in section 460ooo–3(a); (2) an implementation plan for ongoing public education about the Conservation Area's resources; (3) a proposal for minimal administrative and public facilities, sized to fit the Conservation Area's resource goals and visitor needs; (4) cultural resource management strategies, developed with Arizona agencies, prioritizing enforcement of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and the National Historic Preservation Act; (5) wildlife management strategies, developed with Arizona agencies and using earlier studies; (6) livestock grazing management strategies, developed with Arizona agencies; (7) provisions protecting environmentally sustainable grazing on appropriate land; (8) recreation management strategies, including motorized and nonmotorized dispersed recreation, developed with Arizona agencies; (9) cave resource management strategies following the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988; and (10) provisions that if a road or trail on public land is removed, the Secretary must consider providing similar alternate access to the area it served.
(c) Cooperative agreements. To help carry out the management plan, the Secretary may enter cooperative agreements with appropriate federal, state, and local agencies under section 1737(b) of title 43.
(d) Research activities. To help build and carry out the management plan, the Secretary may authorize appropriate research — into the environmental, biological, hydrological, cultural, agricultural, recreational, and other characteristics of the Conservation Area* — under section 1737(a) of title 43.
Not later than 2 years after December 6, 2000, the Secretary*, through the Bureau of Land Management, shall develop and begin to implement a comprehensive management plan* for the long-term management of the public lands* within the Conservation Area* in order to fulfill the purposes for which it is established, as set forth in section 460ooo–3(a) of this title. Consistent with the provisions of this subchapter, the management plan shall be developed—
in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona, including wildlife and land management agencies, with full public participation;
from the draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem Management Plan/EIS, dated October 2000, as it applies to Federal lands or lands with conservation easements; and
in accordance with the resource goals and objectives developed through the Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership process as incorporated in the draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem Management Plan/EIS, dated October 2000, giving full consideration to the management alternative preferred by the Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership, as it applies to Federal lands or lands with conservation easements.
The management plan shall include—
provisions designed to ensure the protection of the resources and values described in section 460ooo–3(a) of this title;
an implementation plan for a continuing program of interpretation and public education about the resources and values of the Conservation Area;
a proposal for minimal administrative and public facilities to be developed or improved at a level compatible with achieving the resource objectives for the Conservation Area and with the other proposed management activities to accommodate visitors to the Conservation Area;
cultural resources management strategies for the Conservation Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona, with emphasis on the preservation of the resources of the Conservation Area and the interpretive, educational, and long-term scientific uses of these resources, giving priority to the enforcement of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.) and the National Historic Preservation Act 1 within the Conservation Area;
wildlife management strategies for the Conservation Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona and using previous studies of the Conservation Area;
production livestock grazing management strategies, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona;
provisions designed to ensure the protection of environmentally sustainable livestock use on appropriate lands within the Conservation Area;
recreation management strategies, including motorized and nonmotorized dispersed recreation opportunities for the Conservation Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona;
cave resources management strategies prepared in compliance with the goals and objectives of the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988 (16 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.); and
provisions designed to ensure that if a road or trail located on public lands within the Conservation Area, or any portion of such a road or trail, is removed, consideration shall be given to providing similar alternative access to the portion of the Conservation Area serviced by such removed road or trail.
In order to better implement the management plan, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies pursuant to section 1737(b) of title 43.
In order to assist in the development and implementation of the management plan, the Secretary may authorize appropriate research, including research concerning the environmental, biological, hydrological, cultural, agricultural, recreational, and other characteristics, resources, and values of the Conservation Area, pursuant to section 1737(a) of title 43.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 106–538, § 6, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2566.)
- 2000Enacted · Pub. L. 106-538 · 114 Stat. 2566
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