§460nn–3 Administration

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must manage the Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area, except where valid existing rights apply. The area must be run to keep its primitive and semiprimitive recreation, allow resource use only if it fits the area's purposes, protect forest and aquatic habitat for fish and wildlife, and conserve special places with rare or outstanding wilderness, biological, geological, recreational, cultural, historical, archaeological, scientific, or other public-value qualities. Federal lands inside the area are removed from all mineral and geothermal leasing. Hunting, fishing, and trapping are allowed under U.S. and Vermont law. Within 18 months after June 19, 1984, the Secretary must make and send a comprehensive management plan to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the United States Senate. The plan must be made with full public participation, consider the views of interested agencies, groups, and people, and focus on the special-area values noted above.