1. U.S. Code
  2. title 16
  3. chapter 1
  4. subchapter CIII
  5. § 460rr-1

Collapse to view only § 460rr-1. Map and description

§ 460rr. Establishment

Certain lands in the Nebraska National Forest, Nebraska, which comprise approximately six thousand six hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled “Pine Ridge National Recreation Area—Proposed”, dated September 1986, are hereby designated as the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area.

(Pub. L. 99–504, title II, § 201, Oct. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 1804.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460rr

§ 460rr–1. Map and description

As soon as practicable after October 20, 1986, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the national recreation area designated by this subchapter with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. Such map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such map and description may be made by the Secretary. Such map and description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

(Pub. L. 99–504, title II, § 202, Oct. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 1804.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460rr-1

§ 460rr–2. Administration
(a) Objectives
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) Fire control; Memorandum of Agreement
(c) Hunting, fishing, and trapping
(d) Mining and mineral leasing laws
(e) State responsibilities with respect to wildlife and fish unaffected
(f) Comprehensive management plan
(g) Public participation in development of management plan
(Pub. L. 99–504, title II, § 203, Oct. 20, 1986, 100 Stat. 1804.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460rr-2