Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§460p–1 Designation of Area; Acreage Limitation; Boundaries; Publication in Federal Register

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXXIV — SPRUCE KNOB-SENECA ROCKS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460p–1

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must, as soon as possible after September 28, 1965, set up the Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area inside and next to the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The area may be no more than 100,000 acres in total. It covers the places called Spruce Knob, Smoke Hole, and Seneca Rock and lies mainly in the South Branch of the Potomac River drainage. The borders are the ones shown on a March 1965 map that is kept for public inspection in the Forest Service Chief’s office. The Secretary must also publish a notice in the Federal Register and include a map showing the recreation area’s boundaries.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460p–1

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The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the “Secretary”) shall—
(1)designate as soon as practicable after September 28, 1965, the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area within and adjacent to, and as a part of, the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand acres comprised of the area including Spruce Knob, Smoke Hole, and Seneca Rock, and lying primarily in the drainage of the South Branch of the Potomac River, the boundaries of which shall be those shown on the map entitled “Proposed Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area”, dated March 1965, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and
(2)publish notice of the designation in the Federal Register, together with a map showing the boundaries of the recreation area.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460p–1

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102