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Summary

To carry out the report’s recommendations for the North Carolina–Georgia extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture must work together to plan and manage recreation on the parkway and on nearby national forest lands. Recreational facilities inside national forests (but not those actually inside the parkway) are to be run by the Secretary of Agriculture. If asked by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior must move or rebuild any national forest roads the parkway affects or provide needed alternate roads. The Interior must also allow access for forest developments next to the parkway unless that would seriously harm the parkway’s main purposes. The Interior can also move or rebuild parts of the Appalachian Trail and its shelters if they are affected; work on private land needs the landowner’s OK and the Appalachian Trail Conference must take over maintenance, and work on forest land needs the Agriculture Secretary’s approval.

Title 16, §460a–7

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To effectuate the recommendations in the report to the Congress on the North Carolina-Georgia extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway, made pursuant to the Act of August 10, 1961 (75 Stat. 337)—

(1)The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall, insofar as practicable, coordinate and correlate recreational development on lands within the parkway and adjacent or related national forests land: Provided, That within national forest boundaries recreational developments and facilities on Federal lands other than those actually within the national parkway shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture;

(2)Upon the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior shall relocate and reconstruct any national forest roads that may be disturbed by the parkway extension, or provide alternative roads that are necessary to the protection, administration, or utilization of the national forests, and shall allow access to areas to be developed by the Secretary of Agriculture on adjacent national forest lands unless to do so will materially impair the primary purposes of the parkway;

(3)The Secretary of the Interior may relocate and reconstruct portions of the Appalachian Trail, including trail shelters, that may be disturbed by the parkway extension and such relocation and reconstruction may be performed (A) on non-Federal lands when the Appalachian Trail Conference obtains the consent of the owner to the use of the lands for the purpose and agrees to assume maintenance thereof, and (B) upon national forest lands with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture.

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Act of August 10, 1961, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 87–135, Aug. 10, 1961, 75 Stat. 337, which was not classified to the Code.

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Title 16, §460a–7

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