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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 23 — National Wilderness Preservation System

§ 1136. Annual reports to Congress

Statutory text

At the opening of each session of Congress, the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior shall jointly report to the President for transmission to Congress on the status of the wilderness system, including a list and descriptions of the areas in the system, regulations in effect, and other pertinent information, together with any recommendations they may care to make.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Wilderness Act

    Pub. L. 88–577 § 7 · 78 Stat. 890

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 1136

    (Pub. L. 88–577, § 7, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 896.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 88–577, § 7, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 896.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. annual reports At the opening of each session of Congress, the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior shall jointly report to the President for transmission to Congress on the status of the wilderness system, including a list and descriptions of the areas in the system, regulations in effect, and other pertinent information, together with any recommendations they may care to make.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective , of provisions of this section relating to transmission to Congress of annual report on status of wilderness system, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and pages 48, 110, and 149 of House Document No. 103–7.

Credits

(Pub. L. 88–577, § 7, , 78 Stat. 896.)

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