16 U.S.C. § 79m — Annual reporting requirements; contents; comprehensive general management plan; submission date and scope

(a) The Secretary had to send Congress a written report every year for ten years, starting January 1, 1979. Each report had to cover: the status of paying landowners for property taken under sections 79c(b)(1) and 79b; the status of land-management and watershed-restoration work under sections 79c(e) and 79k(b); the status of efforts to reduce economic harm as required by this Act; the status of hiring required under section 79l; the status of the new bypass highway and the agreement to donate state park land, as described in section 79c(b)(2); and the status of the National Park Service's general management plan for the park. (b) By no later than January 1, 1980, the Secretary had to send the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources a full general management plan for the park, covering at least: (1) the goals and planned actions to preserve and continue a natural redwood forest ecosystem; (2) how many visitors the park can handle, by area, based on what the park's resources can support; (3) the type, extent, and estimated cost of development planned for visitors and resource protection, including where major development, roads, and trails would go; and (4) specific locations and types of foot-trail access to the Tall Trees Grove — one route must mainly go along the east side of Redwood Creek, through the essentially untouched forest, connecting to the road on the park's west side east of Orick, unless the Secretary shows that route isn't advisable.