§539l–4 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Labeling areas in Colorado as wilderness or as the Protection Area does not create any official rings or buffer zones around them. If you can see or hear things from inside a wilderness or Protection Area, that alone does not stop those outside activities up to the area's border. If Grand, Gilpin, or Boulder County asks, the Secretary must help repair Rollins Pass road so two-wheel-drive vehicles can travel between Colorado State Highway 119 and U.S. Highway 40. Once repaired that far, the Secretary must close the motorized Forest Service roads and trails shown on the map Rollins Pass Road Reopening: Attendant Road and Trail Closures, dated September 2001.

Title 16, §539l–4

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(a)The designation by this Act or by amendments made by this Act of wilderness areas and the Protection Area in the State of Colorado shall not create or imply the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around any wilderness area or the Protection Area. The fact that nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen or heard from within a wilderness area or Protection Area shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to the boundary of the wilderness area or the Protection Area.

(b)If requested by one or more of the Colorado Counties of Grand, Gilpin, and Boulder, the Secretary shall provide technical assistance and otherwise cooperate with respect to repairing the Rollins Pass road in those counties sufficiently to allow two-wheel-drive vehicles to travel between Colorado State Highway 119 and U.S. Highway 40. If this road is repaired to such extent, the Secretary shall close the motorized roads and trails on Forest Service land indicated on the map entitled “Rollins Pass Road Reopening: Attendant Road and Trail Closures”, dated September 2001.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 107–216, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1055, which is classified principally to sections 539l to 539l–5 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 539l of this title and Tables.

§539l–4 Other administrative provisions