16 U.S.C. § 460s–8 — Inland buffer zone

submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-668 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 167 words · no verdicts yet

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This law creates an inland buffer zone within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore to protect the shoreline setting, watersheds, and streams while still allowing sustainable timber harvesting and compatible resource use. The zone's exact boundaries are shown on the 1966 park map.

(a) Statement of purposes: The area described in subsection (b) is established as an inland buffer zone. Its purpose is to stabilize and protect the existing character and uses of the land, water, and other property in the zone. This preserves the setting of the shoreline and lakes, protects watersheds and streams, and allows the fullest economic use of renewable resources through sustained-yield timber management and other resource management that fits this subchapter's purposes. (b) Description of area; places for examination of map: "Inland buffer zone" means the part of the lakeshore marked as such on the map called "Proposed Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Boundary Map, NL–PR–7100A, July 1966." The Secretary must file this map with the Office of the Federal Register, and it can also be examined at Department of the Interior offices.

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(a) Statement of purposes

The area hereinafter described in subsection (b) of this section is hereby established as an inland buffer zone in order to stabilize and protect the existing character and uses of the lands, waters, and other properties within such zone for the purpose of preserving the setting of the shoreline and lakes, protecting the watersheds and streams, and providing for the fullest economic utilization of the renewable resources through sustained yield timber management and other resource management compatible with the purposes of this subchapter.

(b) Description of area; places for examination of map

As used in this subchapter, the term “inland buffer zone” means that part of the lakeshore delineated as such on the map identified as “Proposed Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Boundary Map, NL–PR–7100A, July, 1966”. The Secretary shall file the map with the Office of the Federal Register, and it may also be examined in the Offices of the Department of the Interior.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–668, § 9, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 924.)

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1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-668 · 80 Stat. 924

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