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    16 USC Sec. 460a-2                                          01/08/2008

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER LXV - NATIONAL PARKWAYS

HEAD

    Sec. 460a-2. Blue Ridge Parkway; establishment; administration and
      maintenance

STATUTE

      All lands and easements heretofore or hereafter conveyed to the
    United States by the States of Virginia and North Carolina for the
    right-of-way for the projected parkway between the Shenandoah and
    Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, together with sites acquired
    or to be acquired for recreational areas in connection therewith,
    and a right-of-way for said parkway of a width sufficient to
    include the highway and all bridges, ditches, cuts, and fills
    appurtenant thereto, but not exceeding a maximum of two hundred
    feet through Government-owned lands (except that where small
    parcels of Government-owned lands would otherwise be isolated, or
    where topographic conditions or scenic requirements are such that
    bridges, ditches, cuts, fills, parking overlooks, landscape
    development, recreational and other facilities requisite to public
    use of said parkway could not reasonably be confined to a width of
    two hundred feet, the said maximum may be increased to such width
    as may be necessary, with the written approval of the department or
    agency having jurisdiction over such lands) as designated on maps
    heretofore or hereafter approved by the Secretary of the Interior,
    shall be known as the Blue Ridge Parkway and shall be administered
    and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior through the
    National Park Service, subject to the provisions of sections 1, 2,
    3, and 4 of this title, the provisions of which sections, as
    amended and supplemented, are extended over and made applicable to
    said parkway: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture is
    authorized, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior,
    to connect with the parkway such roads and trails as may be
    necessary for the protection, administration, or utilization of
    adjacent and nearby national forests and the resources thereof: And
    provided further, That the Forest Service and the National Park
    Service shall, insofar as practicable, coordinate and correlate
    such recreational development as each may plan, construct, or
    permit to be constructed, on lands within their respective
    jurisdictions which, by mutual agreement, should be given special
    treatment for recreational purposes.

SOURCE

    (June 30, 1936, ch. 883, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 2041; June 8, 1940, ch.
    277, 54 Stat. 249.)

AMENDMENTS

      1940 - Act June 8, 1940, inserted exceptions set out in
    parenthesis.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

      For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and
    agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to
    Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan
    No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
    Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government
    Organization and Employees.
      Functions of Administrator of General Services transferred to
    Secretary of Commerce by Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1949, Sec. 2, eff.
    Aug. 20, 1949, 14 F.R. 5228, 63 Stat. 1070, set out in the Appendix
    to Title 5.
      Functions, powers, and duties of Secretary of Commerce and other
    officers and offices of Department of Commerce relating generally
    to highways under Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1949 transferred to and
    vested in Secretary of Transportation by Pub. L. 89-670, Sec.
    6(a)(1)(M), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938. Reorg. Plan No. 7 of 1949
    was amended by section 2(b) of Pub. L. 97-449, Jan. 12, 1983, 96
    Stat. 2439, to reflect such transfer.
      Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof,
    together with functions of Federal Works Administrator transferred
    to Administrator of General Services by section 103(a) of act June
    30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, 63 Stat. 380. Both Federal Works Agency
    and office of Federal Works Administrator abolished by section
    103(b) of that act. See Historical and Revision Notes under section
    303(b) of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. Section
    303(b) of Title 40 was amended generally by Pub. L. 109-313, Sec.
    2(a)(1), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1734, and, as so amended, no
    longer relates to the Federal Works Agency and Commissioner of
    Public Buildings. See 2006 Amendment note under section 303 of
    Title 40.
                  EFFECTIVE DATE OF TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
      Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, as effective July 1,
    1949, see section 605, formerly Sec. 505, of act June 30, 1949, ch.
    288, 63 Stat. 403; renumbered by act Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Sec.
    6(a), (b), 64 Stat. 583.