16 U.S.C. § 460vv–7 — Botanical areas

submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 100-499 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 365 words · no verdicts yet

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This law designates two areas within the Ouachita National Forest as botanical areas — about 8,026 acres as the Robert S. Kerr Memorial Arboretum, Nature Center and Botanical Area, and about 400 acres as the Beech Creek Botanical Area — protecting their unique plants, with cutting allowed only to protect or interpret them.

(a) To protect and interpret parts of the Ouachita National Forest with unique and significant plant species and communities, this section designates two botanical areas: (1) about 8,026 acres, shown on the March 1988 map "Robert S. Kerr Memorial Arboretum, Nature Center and Botanical Area—Proposed," known by that name; and (2) about 400 acres, shown on the March 1988 map "Beech Creek Botanical Area—Proposed," known as the Beech Creek Botanical Area. (b) As soon as practical after October 18, 1988, the Secretary of Agriculture had to file a map and legal description of these areas with the House Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and Agriculture, and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. These carry the same legal force as if written into this subchapter, except the Secretary may correct clerical and typing errors; they stay on file for public inspection at the Forest Service. (c) The Secretary must administer the botanical areas under national forest laws, rules, and regulations, to best serve subsection (a)'s purposes. Except as section 460vv–14 allows, cutting trees or otherwise manipulating vegetation is permitted only when necessary to protect and interpret the unique plants and plant communities there. The Secretary may allow roads, improvements, and other facilities to expand near the Robert S. Kerr Nature Center.

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(a) Designation

In order to protect and interpret to the public area within the Ouachita National Forest which contain unique plant species and unique plant communities that are significant in their occurrence, variety and location, the following lands are hereby designated as botanical areas:

(1)

Certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Oklahoma, which comprise approximately eight thousand and twenty-six acres as generally depicted on a map entitled “Robert S. Kerr Memorial Arboretum, Nature Center and Botanical Area—Proposed”, dated March 1988, which shall be known as the “Robert S. Kerr Memorial Arboretum, Nature Center and Botanical Area”.

(2)

Certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Oklahoma, which comprise approximately four hundred acres as generally depicted on a map entitled “Beech Creek Botanical Area—Proposed”, dated March 1988, which shall be known as the “Beech Creek Botanical Area”.

(b) Map and description

The Secretary of Agriculture shall, as soon as practicable after October 18, 1988, file a map and a legal description of the botanical areas with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the United States Senate. Each such map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter; except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may be made. The map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

The Secretary shall administer the botanical areas in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the national forests in such manner as will best further the purposes of this section, as set forth in subsection (a). Except as provided in section 460vv–14 of this title, vegetative manipulation, including the cutting of trees, shall be permitted in such areas only when necessary for the protection and interpretation of the unique plant species and unique plant communities within the area. The Secretary may permit expansion of roads, improvements, and other facilities in the vicinity of the Robert S. Kerr Nature Center.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 100–499, § 9, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2495.)

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1988Enacted · Pub. L. 100-499 · 102 Stat. 2495

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