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[CITE: 16USC460gg-4]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER XCI--HELLS CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
 
Sec. 460gg-4. Administration, protection, and development

    Except as otherwise provided in section 460gg-1 of this title and 
section 3 of this Act, and subject to the provisions of section 460gg-7 
of this title, the Secretary shall administer the recreation area in 
accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the 
national forests for public outdoor recreation in a manner compatible 
with the following objectives:
        (1) the maintenance and protection of the freeflowing nature of 
    the rivers within the recreation area;
        (2) conservation of scenic, wilderness, cultural, scientific, 
    and other values contributing to the public benefit;
        (3) preservation, especially in the area generally known as 
    Hells Canyon, of all features and peculiarities believed to be 
    biologically unique including, but not limited to, rare and endemic 
    plant species, rare combinations of aquatic, terrestrial, and 
    atmospheric habitats, and the rare combinations of outstanding and 
    diverse ecosystems and parts of ecosystems associated therewith;
        (4) protection and maintenance of fish and wildlife habitat;
        (5) protection of archeological and paleontologic sites and 
    interpretation of these sites for the public benefit and knowledge 
    insofar as it is compatible with protection;
        (6) preservation and restoration of historic sites associated 
    with and typifying the economic and social history of the region and 
    the American West; and
        (7) such management, utilization, and disposal of natural 
    resources on federally owned lands, including, but not limited to, 
    timber harvesting by selective cutting, mining, and grazing and the 
    continuation of such existing uses and developments as are 
    compatible with the provisions of this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 94-199, Sec. 7, Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1118.)

                       References in Text

    Section 3 of this Act, referred to in text, is section 3 of Pub. L. 
94-199. Subsec. (a) of section 3 added pars. (11) and (12) of section 
1274(a) of this title, relating to components of the national wild and 
scenic rivers system. Subsec. (b) of section 3, relating to the 
administration of those segments of the Snake and Rapid Rivers 
designated as wild or scenic river areas, is set out as a note under 
section 1274 of this title.
