§469e Plan for Continental Glaciation

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may work with Wisconsin state and local governments to make a plan, within two years after October 13, 1964, to protect, preserve, and explain important examples of continental glaciation in Wisconsin. The Secretary cannot spend more than $50,000 of federal money on the plan. When the plan is finished and the Secretary finds that Wisconsin has laws to protect the important parts and keep them open to the whole nation, he must send copies to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. At least ninety days after that and after talking with the Governor, he may publish a notice to create the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve and set its boundaries. The reserve will include lands owned or to be bought by state or local governments in four groups: Eastern (parts of the northern Kettle Moraine and the Campbellsport drumlin area), Central (parts of Devil’s Lake State Park), Northwestern (parts of Chippewa County), and other related areas the Secretary and Governor agree on. Areas outside national forests that are later agreed to be important can be added or removed the same way, by notifying the congressional leaders and publishing notice in the Federal Register.