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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 90a. Ross Lake National Recreation Area; establishment; statement of purposes; description of area

Statutory text

In order to provide for the public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of portions of the Skagit River and Ross, Diablo, and Gorge Lakes, together with the surrounding lands, and for the conservation of the scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment of such lands and waters, there is hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the Ross Lake National Recreation Area (hereinafter referred to in this subchapter as the “recreation area”). The recreation area shall consist of the lands and waters within the area designated “Ross Lake National Recreation Area” on the map referred to in section 90 of this title.

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. Pub. L. 90–544 title II § 201 · 82 Stat. 926

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 90a

    (Pub. L. 90–544, title II, § 201, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 927.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 90–544, title II, § 201, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 927.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 201. In order to provide for the public outdoor recreation use Establishment. and enjoyment of portions of the Skagit River and Ross, Diablo, and Gorge Lakes, together with the surrounding lands, and for the conservation of the scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment of such hinds and waters, there is hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the Ross Lake National Recreation Area (hereinafter referred to in this Act as the “recreation area”). The recreation area shall consist of the lands and waters within the area designated “Ross Lake National Recreation Area” on the map inferred to in section 101 of this Act

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 90–544, title II, § 201, , 82 Stat. 927.)

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