§3118 Park and Park Monument Subsistence Resource Commissions

Summary

Within one year from December 2, 1980, the Secretary and the Governor must each pick three people for a subsistence resources commission for every park or park monument that allows subsistence uses. The regional advisory council for the area must pick three more members who are either on that council or a local advisory committee and who actually use subsistence resources in the park. Within eighteen months from December 2, 1980, each commission must write and send a plan for subsistence hunting to the Secretary and the Governor. The plan must use technical information and field study data from State and Interior staff, include input from local and regional advisory groups, and reflect testimony from public hearings held near the park. Each year the commission must review the plan, consult local groups, hold hearings nearby, and suggest any needed changes. The Secretary must quickly put the commission’s plan and recommendations into effect unless he writes that the plan breaks sound wildlife conservation rules, harms healthy wildlife populations, conflicts with the park’s purpose, or would hurt local residents’ subsistence needs. If the Governor notifies the Secretary, the Secretary must wait sixty days before acting so he can consider any changes the Governor sends. Until a commission’s plan is in effect, the Secretary must allow local residents to continue subsistence uses under this subchapter and other federal and State law.