16 U.S.C. § 460uu–41: Management plans

Summary

The Secretary must create and send two separate general management plans—one for the monument and one for the conservation area—to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate within three full fiscal years following the fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter. Each plan must say how the lands will be used and protected and must include: a program for ongoing public education and interpretation; proposals for public facilities, including a visitors center near Bandera Crater and a multiagency orientation center in or near Grants, New Mexico, adjacent to Interstate 40; natural and cultural resources plans that emphasize preserving archaeological sites, give high priority to enforcing the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and the National Historic Preservation Act, and be developed in close consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office, and local Indian people and their cultural and religious authorities; and wildlife management plans made closely with appropriate New Mexico state departments and based on prior studies. The conservation-area plan must review and recommend whether about 17,468 acres labeled “Wilderness Study Area” on the map in section 460uu should become wilderness. Until a recommendation is sent and unless Congress says otherwise, the Secretary, through the Bureau of Land Management Director, must manage that WSA to keep it eligible for the National Wilderness Preservation System. The monument plan must review and recommend whether all roadless lands inside the monument (except areas marked “potential development areas” on the same map) should become wilderness. Until a recommendation and unless Congress acts, the Secretary, through the National Park Service Director, must manage those roadless lands (except the potential development areas) to keep them eligible for the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Title 16, §460uu–41

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(a)Development and transmittal to Congress; contents

Within three full fiscal years following the fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter, the Secretary shall develop and transmit to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, separate general management plans for the monument and the conservation area which shall describe the appropriate uses and development of the monument and the conservation area consistent with the purposes of this subchapter. The plans shall include but not be limited to each of the following:

(1)implementation plans for a continuing program of interpretation and public education about the resources and values of the monument and the conservation area;

(2)proposals for public facilities to be developed for the conservation area or the monument, including a visitors center in the vicinity of Bandera Crater and a multiagency orientation center, to be located in or near Grants, New Mexico, and adjacent to Interstate 40, to accommodate visitors to western New Mexico;

(3)natural and cultural resources management plans for the monument and the conservation area, with a particular emphasis on the preservation and long-term scientific use of archeological resources, giving high priority to the enforcement of the provisions of the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 [16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.] and the National Historic Preservation Act within the monument and the conservation area. The natural and cultural resources management plans shall be prepared in close consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office, and the local Indian people and their traditional cultural and religious authorities; and such plans shall provide for long-term scientific use of archaeological resources in the monument and the conservation area, including the wilderness areas designated by this subchapter; and

(4)wildlife resources management plans for the monument and the conservation area prepared in close consultation with appropriate departments of the State of New Mexico and using previous studies of the area.

(b)Review and recommendation of suitability or nonsuitability of specific lands

(1)The general management plan for the conservation area shall review and recommend the suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness of those lands comprising approximately 17,468 acres, identified as “Wilderness Study Area” (hereafter in this part referred to as the “WSA”) on the map referenced in section 460uu of this title.

(2)Pending submission of a recommendation and until otherwise directed by an Act of Congress, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, shall manage the lands within the WSA so as to maintain their potential for inclusion within the National Wilderness Preservation System.

(c)Review and recommendation of suitability or nonsuitability of roadless lands

(1)The general management plan for the monument shall review and recommend the suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness of all roadless lands within the boundaries of the monument as established by this subchapter except those lands within the areas identified as “potential development areas” on the map referenced in section 460uu of this title.

(2)Pending the submission of a recommendation and until otherwise directed by Act of Congress, the Secretary, through the Director of the National Park Service, shall manage all roadless lands within the boundaries of the monument so as to maintain their potential for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, except those lands within the areas identified as “potential development areas” on the map referenced in section 460uu of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (a), is the fiscal year of the enactment of Pub. L. 100–225, which enacted this subchapter, and was approved Dec. 31, 1987. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), is Pub. L. 96–95, Oct. 31, 1979, 93 Stat. 721, which is classified generally to chapter 1B (§ 470aa et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 470aa of this title and Tables. The National Historic Preservation Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), is Pub. L. 89–665, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 915, which was classified generally to subchapter II (§ 470 et seq.) of chapter 1A of this title. The Act, except for section 1, was repealed and restated in division A (§ 300101 et seq.) of subtitle III of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 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.

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.

§460uu–41 Management Plans