Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 460aa. Establishment
Statutory text
In general
In order to assure the preservation and protection of the natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, and fish and wildlife values and to provide for the enhancement of the recreational values associated therewith, the Sawtooth National Recreation Area is hereby established.
Boundaries; publication in Federal Register
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area (hereafter referred to as the “recreation area”), including the Sawtooth Wilderness Area (hereafter referred to as the “wilderness area”), shall comprise the lands generally depicted on the map entitled “Sawtooth National Recreation Area” dated June 1972, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. The Secretary of Agriculture (hereafter referred to as the “Secretary”) shall, as soon as practicable after , publish a detailed description and map showing the boundaries of the recreation area in the Federal Register.
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.
Pub. L. 92–400 § 1 · 86 Stat. 612
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460aa
(Pub. L. 92–400, § 1, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 612.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–400, § 1, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 612.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) the feasible alternative uses of the land and the long- and short-term effect of such alternative uses upon, but not limited to, the following— (A) the State and local economy, (B) the natural and cultural environment, (C) the management and use of water resources, (D) the management of grazing, timber, mineral, and other commercial activities, (E) the management of fish and wildlife resources, (F) the continued occupancy of existing homesites, camp-sites, commercial and public recreation enterprises, and other privately owned properties and the future development of the same, (G) the interrelation between recreation areas, wilderness areas and park lands, and
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision