16 U.S.C. § 460s–5: Administration…

Summary

The Secretary must manage, protect, and develop Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore under the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.). The Secretary may also use other conservation powers when they help those goals. The Secretary must make and carry out a land and water use management plan. The plan must provide for public recreation facilities, including improvements to Alger County Road H–58. It must protect scenic, scientific, and historic features. It must also allow for protection, management, and use of renewable natural resources, like forage and forest products, so long as those uses do not significantly harm recreation or those protected features and follow sections 460s–8 and 460s–9. A scenic shoreline drive may not be built in the lakeshore.

Title 16, §460s–5

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(a)Utilization of authority for conservation and management of natural resources

The administration, protection, and development of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore shall be exercised by the Secretary, subject to the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as amended and supplemented, relating to the areas administered and supervised by the Secretary through the National Park Service; except that authority otherwise available to the Secretary for the conservation and management of natural resources may be utilized to the extent he finds such authority will further the purposes of this subchapter.

(b)Land and water use management plan; preparation and implementation; provisions

In the administration, protection, and development of the lakeshore, the Secretary shall prepare and implement a land and water use management plan, which shall include specific provision for— (1)

(2)protection of scenic, scientific, and historic features contributing to public enjoyment; and

(3)such protection, management, and utilization (subject to the provisions of section 460s–8 and 460s–9 of this title) of renewable natural resources, including forage and forest products, as in the judgment of the Secretary is consistent with, and does not significantly impair public recreation and protection of scenic, scientific, and historic features contributing to public enjoyment.

(c)Prohibition of certain construction

A scenic shoreline drive may not be constructed in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), referred to in subsec. (a), is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted section 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 105–378, § 202(1), substituted “including appropriate improvements to Alger County Road H–58” for “including a scenic shoreline drive”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–378, § 202(2), added subsec. (c).

§460s–5 Administration, Protection, and Development