16 USC 460aa-13 - Area analysis for park or park administrative unit proposal

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 460aa–13.

Area analysis for park or park administrative unit proposal

(a)

Report to Congress

(b)

Considerations manifested in report to Congress

His report shall show that in making the aforesaid recommendations he took into consideration, among other things—

(1)

the feasible alternative uses of the land and the long- and short-term effect of such alternative uses upon, but not limited to, the following—

(A)

the State and local economy,

(B)

the natural and cultural environment,

(C)

the management and use of water resources,

(D)

the management of grazing, timber, mineral, and other commercial activities,

(E)

the management of fish and wildlife resources,

(F)

the continued occupancy of existing homesites, campsites, commercial and public recreation enterprises, and other privately owned properties and the future development of the same,

(G)

the interrelation between recreation areas, wilderness areas and park lands, and

(2)

the establishment of a national park in the mountain peaks and upland areas together with such portions of the national recreation area as may be necessary and appropriate for the proper administration and public use of and access to such parks lands, leaving the valleys and low-lying lands available for multiple-use purposes.

(c)

Master plan, cost estimates and proposed legislation for establishment of park administrative unit

(d)

Authorization of appropriations

(Pub. L. 92–400, § 14, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 615.)

cite as: 16 USC 460aa-13