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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 195a. North St. Vrain Creek and adjacent lands

Statutory text

Neither the Secretary of the Interior nor any other Federal agency or officer may approve or issue any permit for, or provide any assistance for, the construction of any new dam, reservoir, or impoundment on any segment of North St. Vrain Creek or its tributaries within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park or on the main stem of North St. Vrain Creek downstream to the point at which the creek crosses the elevation 6,550 feet above mean sea level. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the issuance of any permit for the construction of a new water gauging station on North St. Vrain Creek at the point of its confluence with Coulson Gulch.

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. Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996

    Pub. L. 104–333 div. I title IV § 408(a) · 110 Stat. 4093

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 195a

    (Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 5, as added Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title IV, § 408(a), Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4153.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 5, as added Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title IV, § 408(a), Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4153.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) North St. Vrain Creek and Adjacent Lands.— The Act of January 26, 1915, establishing Rocky Mountain National Park (38 Stat. 798; 16 U.S.C. 191 et seq.), is amended by adding the following new section at the end thereof: “SEC. 5. NORTH ST. VRAIN CREEK AND ADJACENT LANDS. “Neither the Secretary of the Interior nor any other Federal agency or officer may approve or issue any permit for, or provide any assistance for, the construction of any new dam, reservoir, or impoundment on any segment of North St. Vrain Creek or its tributaries within the boundaries of Rocky Mountain National Park or on the main stem of North St. Vrain Creek downstream to the point at which the creek crosses the elevation 6,550 feet above mean sea level. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the issuance of any permit for the construction of a new water gauging station on North St. Vrain Creek at the point of its confluence with Coulson Gulch”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, § 5, as added Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title IV, § 408(a), , 110 Stat. 4153.)

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