CITE

    16 USC Sec. 460a-7                                          01/08/2008

EXPCITE

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

HEAD

    Sec. 460a-7. Coordination of recreational development on parkway
      and national forest lands; administration of forest land
      recreational facilities and access road development by Secretary
      of Agriculture; forest road and Appalachian Trail relocation and
      reconstruction and alternative forest road provision by Secretary
      of the Interior

STATUTE

      To effectuate the recommendations in the report to the Congress
    on the North Carolina-Georgia extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway,
    made pursuant to the Act of August 10, 1961 (75 Stat. 337) -
        (1) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of
      Agriculture shall, insofar as practicable, coordinate and
      correlate recreational development on lands within the parkway
      and adjacent or related national forests land: Provided, That
      within national forest boundaries recreational developments and
      facilities on Federal lands other than those actually within the
      national parkway shall be administered by the Secretary of
      Agriculture;
        (2) Upon the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, the
      Secretary of the Interior shall relocate and reconstruct any
      national forest roads that may be disturbed by the parkway
      extension, or provide alternative roads that are necessary to the
      protection, administration, or utilization of the national
      forests, and shall allow access to areas to be developed by the
      Secretary of Agriculture on adjacent national forest lands unless
      to do so will materially impair the primary purposes of the
      parkway;
        (3) The Secretary of the Interior may relocate and reconstruct
      portions of the Appalachian Trail, including trail shelters, that
      may be disturbed by the parkway extension and such relocation and
      reconstruction may be performed (A) on non-Federal lands when the
      Appalachian Trail Conference obtains the consent of the owner to
      the use of the lands for the purpose and agrees to assume
      maintenance thereof, and (B) upon national forest lands with the
      approval of the Secretary of Agriculture.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 90-555, Sec. 2, Oct. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 968.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      Act of August 10, 1961, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 87-135,
    Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 337, which was not classified to the Code.