Page 11. NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT (AND RELATED LAWS): A. National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) B. Section 603 of Public Law 89-754 (Grants to National Trust) (16 D. Section 507 of Division I of Public Law 104-333 (Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preserva- 13. ACT OF JUNE 8, 1906 (ANTIQUITIES ACT) (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) ...... 14. PUBLIC LAW 86-523 (ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECOVERY ACT) (16 U.S.C. 469 ii PART I-PARKS AND RECREATION 1. WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT (AND RELATED LAWS) [As amended through December 31, 1996, P.L. 104–333] A. WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT (Public Law 90–542; Approved October 2, 1968) AN ACT To provide a National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repesentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That [16 U.S.C. 1271] (a) this Act may be cited as the "Wild and Scenic Rivers Act". (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic recreational, geologic fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their immediate environments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Congress declares that the established national policy of dam and other construction at appropriate sections of the rivers of the United States needs to be complemented by a policy that would preserve other selected rivers or sections thereof in their free-flowing condition to protect the water quality of such rivers and to fulfill other vital national conservation purposes. (c) [16 U.S.C. 1272] The purpose of this Act is to implement this policy by instituting a national wild and scenic rivers system, by designating the initial components with that system and by prescribing the methods by which and standards according to which additional components may be added to the system from time to time. SEC. 2. [16 U.S.C. 1273] (a) The national wild and scenic rivers system shall comprise rivers (i) that are authorized for inclusion therein by Act of Congress, or (ii) that are designated as wild, scenic or recreational rivers by or pursuant to an act of the legislature of the State or States through which they flow, that are to be permanently administered as wild, scenic or recreational rivers by an agency or political subdivision of the State or States concerned, that are found by the Secretary of the Interior, upon application of the Governor of the State or the Governors of the States concerned, or a person or persons thereunto duly appointed by him or them, to meet the criteria established in this Act and such criteria supplementary thereto as he may prescribe, and that are approved by him for inclusion in the system, including, upon application of the Governor of the State concerned, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Maine; that segment of the Wolf River, Wisconsin, which flows through Langlade County and that segment of the New River in North Carolina extending from its confluence with Dog Creek downstream approximately 26.5 miles to the Virginia State line. Upon receipt of an application under clause (ii) of this subsection, the Secretary shall notify the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and publish such application in the Federal Register. Each river designated under clause (ii) shall be administered by the State or political subdivision thereof without expense to the United States other than for administration and management of federally owned lands. For purposes of the preceding sentence, amounts made available to any State or political subdivision under the Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 or any other provision of law shall not be treated as an expense to the United States. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to provide for the transfer to, or administration by, a State or local authority of any federally owned lands which are within the boundaries of any river included within the system under clause (ii). (b) A wild, scenic or recreational river area eligible to be included in the system is a free-flowing stream and the related adjacent land area that possesses one or more of the values referred to in section 1, subsection (b) of this Act. Every wild, scenic or recreational river in its free-flowing condition, or upon restoration to this condition, shall be considered eligible for inclusion in the national wild and scenic rivers system and, if included, shall be classified, designated, and administered as one of the following: (1) Wild river areas-Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free of impoundments and generally inaccessible except by trail, with watersheds or shorelines essentially primitive and waters unpolluted. These represent vestiges of primitive America. (2) Scenic river areas-Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free of impoundments, with shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in places by roads. (3) Recreational river areas-Those rivers or sections of rivers that are readily accessible by road or railroad, that may have some development along their shorelines, and that may have undergone some impoundment or diversion in the past. SEC. 3. [16 U.S.C. 1274] (a) The following rivers and the land adjacent thereto are hereby designated as components of the national wild and scenic rivers system: (1) CLEARWATER, MIDDLE FORK, IDAHO.-The Middle Fork from the town of Kooskia upstream to the town of Lowell; the Lochsa River from its junction with the Selway at Lowell forming the Middle Fork, upstream to the Powell Ranger Station; and the Selway River from Lowell upstream to its origin; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. (2) ELEVEN POINT, MISSOURI.-The segment of the river extending downstream from Thomasville, to State Highway 142; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. (3) FEATHER, CALIFORNIA.-The entire Middle Fork downstream from the confluence of its tributary streams one kilometer south of Beckwourth, California; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. |