PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must manage the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area like a national forest, as long as earlier valid rights are respected. The management must follow six goals: keep primitive and semi‑primitive recreation, protect forest, water, and grassland habitats, protect special areas with strong natural or cultural values, allow existing livestock grazing, stop spread of harmful weeds and insects, and control fires so they do not spread to nearby private or federal lands. The Secretary must make a written agreement with local and State firefighting groups and people to use local fire resources. Hunting, fishing, and trapping are allowed under U.S. and Nebraska law. Federal lands in the area are closed to new mining claims, patents, and mineral or geothermal leasing, subject to earlier valid rights. Nebraska keeps its authority over wildlife and fish. Within eighteen months after October 20, 1986, the Secretary must send a full management plan to the House Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and on Agriculture, and to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and must allow full public input and consider views of all interested parties.

Title 16, §460rr–2

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(a)Subject to valid existing rights, the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area designated by this subchapter shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the national forests in a manner compatible with the following objectives:

(1)the continuation of existing primitive and semiprimitive recreational use in a natural environment;

(2)preservation and protection of forest, aquatic and grassland habitat;

(3)protection and conservation of special areas having uncommon or outstanding wilderness, biological, geological, recreational, cultural, historical or archeological, and scientific, or other values contributing to the public benefit;

(4)the continuation of existing livestock grazing uses;

(5)the control of noxious weeds and insects and prevention of their spreading onto the nearby private and Federal lands; and

(6)the control of fires and prevention of their spreading onto nearby private and Federal lands.

(b)The Secretary shall enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with local and State firefighting agencies and individuals to assure the best utilization of the firefighting resources available in the nearby communities for control of fire in the national recreation area.

(c)The Secretary shall permit hunting, fishing, and trapping on lands and waters under the Secretary’s jurisdiction within the boundaries of the national recreation area designated by this subchapter in accordance with applicable laws of the United States and the State of Nebraska.

(d)Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within the national recreation area are hereby withdrawn from location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws, and from disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing and all amendments thereto.

(e)Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the State of Nebraska with respect to wildlife and fish in the national recreation area.

(f)Within eighteen months after October 20, 1986, the Secretary shall develop and submit to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate a comprehensive management plan for the national recreation area designated by this subchapter.

(g)In conducting the reviews and preparing the comprehensive management plan required by subsection (d),11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection (f),”. the Secretary shall provide for full public participation, and shall consider the views of all interested agencies, organizations, and individuals.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (e), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 99–504, Oct. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 1802, known as the Nebraska Wilderness Act of 1985, 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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