Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 460p. Establishment
Statutory text
In order to provide for the public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment thereof by the people of the United States, the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area in the State of West Virginia.
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. 89–207 § 1 · 79 Stat. 843
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460p
(Pub. L. 89–207, § 1, Sept. 28, 1965, 79 Stat. 843.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–207, § 1, Sept. 28, 1965, 79 Stat. 843.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) designate as soon as practicable after this Act takes effect the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area within and adjacent to, and as a part of, the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, not to exceed in the aggregate one hundred thousand acres comprised of the area including Spruce Knob, Smoke Hole, and Seneca Rock, and lying primarily in the drainage of the South Branch of the Potomac River, the boundaries of which shall be those shown on the map entitled “Proposed Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area”, dated March 1965, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office or the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and
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