16 U.S.C. § 460pp: Establishment

Summary

Creates the Mount Baker National Recreation Area inside the Mount Baker‑Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington to protect natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, and fish and wildlife values and to improve recreational opportunities. The area covers about 8,600 acres as shown on the map titled "Mount Baker National Recreation Area—Proposed," dated March 1984, which is on file and open for public inspection at the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture must, as soon as practicable after July 3, 1984, file a map and legal description with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (House); those documents are treated as part of the law, and clerical or typographical errors may be corrected. The Secretary of Agriculture must manage the area under the same laws and rules that apply to national forests. Management must focus on three goals: public outdoor recreation (including snowmobile use), preserving scenic, natural, historic, and related values for public enjoyment, and allowing use or disposal of federal resources on lands in the area only if it is compatible with and does not significantly harm the reasons the area was created.

Title 16, §460pp

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(a)In general

In order to assure the conservation and protection of certain natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, and fish and wildlife values and to provide for the enhancement of the recreational values associated therewith, the Mount Baker National Recreation Area located in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, is hereby established.

(b)Acreage

The Mount Baker National Recreation Area (hereafter referred to as the “recreation area”) shall comprise approximately eight thousand six hundred acres as generally depicted on the map entitled “Mount Baker National Recreation Area—Proposed”, dated March 1984, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

(c)Map and legal description

The Secretary of Agriculture shall, as soon as practicable after July 3, 1984, file a map and a legal description of the recreation area with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, and each such map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter: Provided, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may be made. The map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

(d)Administration

The Secretary shall administer the recreation area in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the national forests in such manner as will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation (including but not limited to snowmobile use); (2) conservation of scenic, natural, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of natural resources on federally owned lands within the recreation area which are compatible with and which do not significantly impair the purposes for which the recreation area is established.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 98–339, July 3, 1984, 98 Stat. 299, known as the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984, which enacted this subchapter and provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.

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