16 U.S.C. § 410jjj–4: Authorization of…

Summary

The Secretary may spend up to $60,500,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund to buy land and up to $2,000,000 for building essential facilities. The Secretary may also use whatever additional money is needed from that fund to buy certain other lands described elsewhere in the law. Within three years after this law takes effect, the Secretary must work with the Governor of South Carolina to create and send a general management plan to the Congressional committees that handle Interior and Insular Affairs. The plan must say which nearby lands or land interests are needed for protection, scenic quality, or park management and give cost estimates; how many visitors and what kinds of public use the park can handle without harming resources; and where needed visitor facilities should go with cost estimates. Separately, $3,000,000 is authorized for construction and development inside the park.

Title 16, §410jjj–4

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(a)In general

The Secretary may not expend more than $60,500,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for land acquisition nor more than $2,000,000 for the development of essential facilities. The Secretary may expend such additional sums as are necessary from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for acquisition of lands described in section 410jjj(b) of this title.

(b)General management plan

Within three years from the effective date of this subchapter the Secretary shall, after consulting with the Governor of the State of South Carolina, develop and transmit to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States Congress a general management plan for the use and development of the park consistent with the purposes of this subchapter, indicating:

(1)the lands and interests in lands adjacent or related to the park which are deemed necessary or desirable for the purposes of resource protection, scenic integrity, or management and administration of the area in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter, and the estimated cost thereof;

(2)the number of visitors and types of public use within the park which can be accommodated in accordance with the protection of its resources;

(3)the location and estimated cost of facilities deemed necessary to accommodate such visitors and uses.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

Notwithstanding subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for construction and development within the park.

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The

Effective Date

of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 94–545, which was approved on Oct. 18, 1976.

Amendments

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–524, § 6(a), inserted sentence at end relating to expenditure of additional sums for acquisition of lands. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–524, § 6(b), added subsec. (c). 1983—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–141 substituted “$60,500,000” for “$35,500,000” and “$2,000,000” for “$500,000”.

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Change of Name

In subsecs. (b) and (c), “park” substituted for “monument” pursuant to Pub. L. 108–108, § 135, which is set out as a note under section 410jjj of this title and which redesignated the Congaree Swamp National Monument as the Congaree National Park. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate abolished and replaced by Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, effective Feb. 11, 1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of the Senate, as amended by Senate Resolution No. 4 (popularly cited as the “Committee System Reorganization

Amendments

of 1977”), approved Feb. 4, 1977. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.

§410jjj–4 Authorization of Appropriations; General Management Plan

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Title 16, §410jjj–4

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