§17j–2 Authorization of appropriations for road maintenance and repair, etc.

Summary

Lets the National Park Service spend money to protect certain federal land and to repair, maintain, or build roads at specific park sites. It covers the Ocean Strip and Queets Corridor next to Olympic National Park; roads from Glacier Park Station across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to Glacier National Park and the international border; 2.77 miles of road from United States Highway 187 to the north entrance of Grand Teton National Park; approach roads through Lassen National Forest to Lassen Volcanic National Park; the Generals Highway between Sequoia and the Grant Grove area of Kings Canyon; about 2.25 miles of roads needed for Sequoia and Kings Canyon (including parts of the Fresno-Kings Canyon approach, Park Ridge Lookout Road, and Ash Mountain-Advance truck trail); roads in the national forests leading out of Yellowstone; the Stanislaus National Forest road linking Tioga Road and Hetch Hetchy Road near Mather Station in Yosemite; the approach and connecting roads at Little Bighorn Battlefield and the Reno Monument in Montana; and about 5.3 miles of a class “C” road near Montezuma Pass into Coronado National Memorial. Sections (b) through (g) were repealed by Pub. L. 113–287 on Dec. 19, 2014. The law also allows the Park Service to obtain rights to land and to build and maintain a water supply line that lies partly outside Mesa Verde National Park.