§460bbb–10 Savings provision

Summary

It does not change how land outside the recreation area is run. Activities or uses outside the area are not limited just because they can be seen or heard from inside, and the law does not force new management rules on lands outside the boundary. Valid timber sale contracts or other contracts made by the Secretary before November 16, 1990 stay in effect. Unless the law says otherwise, the United States keeps any rights or ownership it already has in lands or waters inside the recreation area. California and its local governments still keep their road easement duties, including work on State Highway 199 and County Route 427, and private landowners’ federal access rights across National Forest lands are not changed. For the first two full fiscal years after November 16, 1990, the Secretary must pay local governments inside the recreation area an annual amount equal to the difference between (a) what would be payable under the Act of May 23, 1908 and (b) the average amount paid under that Act in the five fiscal years before November 16, 1990. That payment is cut by 10% each year after those first two years until it reaches zero by the end of the twelfth fiscal year after November 16, 1990. The payment rule ends 11 years after the first payment.