§3118 Park and Park Monument Subsistence Resource Commissions

Summary

Within one year after December 2, 1980, the Secretary and the Governor must each pick three people for a subsistence resources commission for every park or monument where subsistence use is allowed. The regional advisory council for the park area must also pick three commission members who are either on that council or a local advisory committee and who actually use the park’s subsistence resources. Within eighteen months after December 2, 1980, each commission must create and send a plan for subsistence hunting in the park. The plan must use technical and field study data, talk with local and regional advisory groups, and include testimony from public hearings held near the park. Each year after that, the commission must review data, hold local hearings, consult advisors, and recommend any needed changes. The Secretary must carry out the commission’s plan quickly unless he writes that the plan breaks wildlife conservation rules, would harm healthy wildlife populations, goes against the park’s purpose, or would hurt local residents’ subsistence needs. If the Governor asks, the Secretary must wait 60 days before acting so he can consider changes the Governor proposes. Until a commission plan is put into effect, the Secretary must allow local residents to continue subsistence uses under this subchapter and other federal and state laws.