§460a–7 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

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The Interior Secretary and the Agriculture Secretary must work together, as much as possible, to plan and coordinate recreational development where the Blue Ridge Parkway extension touches or is next to national forest lands. If a recreational facility is inside national forest boundaries but not inside the parkway itself, the Agriculture Secretary will run and manage it. If the Agriculture Secretary asks, the Interior Secretary must move or rebuild any national forest roads the parkway extension disturbs or provide replacement roads needed to protect or run the forests. The Interior Secretary must also allow access for areas the Agriculture Secretary will develop on nearby forest land unless that access would seriously harm the parkway’s main purposes. The Interior Secretary may move or rebuild parts of the Appalachian Trail, including shelters, if needed; this can be done on private land when the Appalachian Trail Conference gets the owner’s permission and agrees to maintain the trail, or on national forest land with the Agriculture Secretary’s approval.

Title 16, §460a–7

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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.

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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.

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Title 16, §460a–7

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