Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LXXIV— - SPRUCE KNOB-SENECA ROCKS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460p–1
The Secretary of Agriculture must create the Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area as soon as possible after September 28, 1965. The area will be part of and next to the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia and may not be larger than 100,000 acres. It will include Spruce Knob, Smoke Hole, and Seneca Rock and lie mainly in the South Branch of the Potomac River drainage. The boundaries must match the map titled "Proposed Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area," dated March 1965, which is on file in the Forest Service chief’s office and open for public inspection. The Secretary must also publish a notice in the Federal Register and include a map that shows the recreation area boundaries.
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16 U.S.C. § 460p–1
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