Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 460r. Establishment
Statutory text
In order to provide for the public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of the area in the vicinity of Mount Rogers, the highest mountain in the State of Virginia, and to the extent feasible the conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, and other values of the area, the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area in the Jefferson National Forest in the State of 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. 89–438 § 1 · 80 Stat. 190
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460r
(Pub. L. 89–438, § 1, May 31, 1966, 80 Stat. 190.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–438, § 1, May 31, 1966, 80 Stat. 190.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) designate as soon as practicable after this Act takes effect the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area within and adjacent to, and as a part of, the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia comprised of the area the boundaries of which shall be those shown on the map entitled “Proposed Mount Rogers National Recreation Area”, dated 1965, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision