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    16 USC Sec. 460l-31                                         01/08/2008

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER LXIX - OUTDOOR RECREATION PROGRAMS
    Part E - Reclamation Recreation Management

HEAD

    Sec. 460l-31. Findings

STATUTE

      The Congress finds and declares the following:
        (1) There is a Federal responsibility to provide opportunities
      for public recreation at Federal water projects.
        (2) Some provisions of the Federal Water Project Recreation Act
      [16 U.S.C. 460l-12 et seq.] are outdated because of increases in
      demand for outdoor recreation and changes in the economic climate
      for recreation managing entities.
        (3) Provisions of such Act relating to non-Federal
      responsibility for all costs of operation, maintenance, and
      replacement of recreation facilities result in an unfair burden,
      especially in cases where the facilities are old or
      underdesigned.
        (4) Provisions of such Act that limit the Federal share of
      recreation facility development at water projects completed
      before 1965 to $100,000 preclude a responsible Federal share in
      providing adequate opportunities for safe outdoor recreation.
        (5) There should be Federal authority to expand existing
      recreation facilities to meet public demand, in partnership with
      non-Federal interests.
        (6) Nothing in this part changes the responsibility of the
      Bureau to meet the purposes for which Federal Reclamation
      projects were initially authorized and constructed.
        (7) It is therefore in the best interest of the people of this
      Nation to amend the Federal Water Project Recreation Act [16
      U.S.C. 460l-12 et seq.] to remove outdated restrictions and
      authorize the Secretary of the Interior to undertake specific
      measures for the management of Reclamation lands.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 102-575, title XXVIII, Sec. 2802, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat.
    4690.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      The Federal Water Project Recreation Act, referred to in pars.
    (2) to (4) and (7), is Pub. L. 89-72, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 213,
    as amended, which is classified principally to part C (Sec. 460l-12
    et seq.) of this subchapter. For complete classification of this
    Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 460l-12
    of this title and Tables.
      This part, referred to in par. (6), was in the original "this
    title", meaning title XXVIII of Pub. L. 102-575, Oct. 30, 1992, 106
    Stat. 4690, which enacted sections 460l-31 to 460l-34 of this title
    and amended sections 460l-13 to 460l-15 and 460l-18 of this title.

SHORT TITLE

      Section 2801 of title XXVIII of Pub. L. 102-575 provided that:
    "This title [enacting this part and amending sections 460l-13 to
    460l-15 and 460l-18 of this title] may be cited as the 'Reclamation
    Recreation Management Act of 1992'."