CITE

    16 USC Sec. 460a-6                                          01/08/2008

EXPCITE

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

HEAD

    Sec. 460a-6. Blue Ridge Parkway extension; acceptance of lands;
      public use, administration, and maintenance areas; survey
      location of parkway extension crossing national forest land;
      transfer from Federal agency to administrative jurisdiction of
      Secretary of the Interior; national forest uses following
      transfer within national forest

STATUTE

      The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept, on behalf
    of the United States, donations of land and interests in land in
    the States of North Carolina and Georgia, to construct thereon an
    extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the vicinity of Beech Gap,
    North Carolina, to the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain National
    Battlefield Park north of Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia, and to
    provide public use, administration, and maintenance areas in
    connection therewith. The lands accepted for the parkway extension
    may vary in width but shall average not more than one hundred and
    twenty-five acres per mile in fee simple plus not more than twenty-
    five acres per mile in scenic easements. The survey location and
    width of any portion of the parkway extension that crosses national
    forest land shall be jointly determined by the Secretary of the
    Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. Where the parkway
    extension designated by the Secretary of the Interior traverses
    Federal lands, the head of the department or agency having
    jurisdiction over such lands is authorized to transfer to the
    Secretary of the Interior the part of the Federal lands mutually
    agreed upon as necessary for the construction, maintenance and
    administration of the parkway extension and public use thereof,
    without transfer of funds. Any such transfer within a national
    forest shall not preclude any national forest use that is
    compatible with parkway use and that is agreed upon by the
    Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 90-555, Sec. 1, Oct. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 967.)