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[CITE: 16USC460nn]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER XCIX--WHITE ROCKS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
 
Sec. 460nn. Findings and purpose

    (a) Congress finds that--
        (1) Vermont is a beautiful but small and rural State, situated 
    near four large cities with combined metropolitan populations of 
    over fifteen million;
        (2) geographic and topographic characteristics of Vermont 
    provide opportunities for large numbers of people to experience the 
    beauty of primitive areas, but also place unusual pressure to 
    provide options to maximize the availability of such lands for a 
    variety of forms of recreation;
        (3) certain lands designated as the Big Branch and Peru Peak 
    Wilderness Areas by title I of this Act are suitable for inclusion 
    as part of the national recreation area; and
        (4) certain other lands in the Green Mountain National Forest 
    not designated as wilderness by this Act are of a predominantly 
    roadless nature and possess outstanding wild values that are 
    important for primitive and semiprimitive recreation, watershed 
    protection, wildlife habitat, ecological study, education, and 
    historic and archeological resources, and are deemed suitable for 
    preservation and protection as part of a national recreation area.

    (b) The purpose of this subchapter is to designate certain National 
Forest System lands in the State of Vermont as the White Rocks National 
Recreation Area in order to preserve and protect their existing 
wilderness and wild values and to promote wild forest and aquatic 
habitat for wildlife, watershed protection, opportunities for primitive 
and semiprimitive recreation, and scenic, ecological, and scientific 
values.

(Pub. L. 98-322, title II, Sec. 201, June 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 256.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), (4), is Pub. L. 98-322, 
June 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 253. Lands in the Green Mountain National Forest 
were designated as wilderness areas by title I of this Act, and are 
listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this 
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 460nn-3 of this title.
