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[CITE: 16USC460xx-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
      SUBCHAPTER CIX--SAN PEDRO RIPARIAN NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA
 
Sec. 460xx-1. Management


(a) General authorities

    The Secretary shall manage the conservation area in a manner that 
conserves, protects, and enhances the riparian area and the aquatic, 
wildlife, archeological, paleontological, scientific, cultural, 
educational, and recreational resources of the conservation area. Such 
management shall be guided by this subchapter and, where not 
inconsistent with this subchapter, by the provisions of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 [43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.] (hereinafter 
in this subchapter referred to as ``FLPMA'').

(b) Uses

    The Secretary shall only allow such uses of the conservation area as 
he finds will further the primary purposes for which the conservation 
area is established. Except where needed for administrative or emergency 
purposes, the use of motorized vehicles in the conservation area shall 
only be allowed on roads specifically designated for such use as part of 
the management plan prepared pursuant to section 460xx-2 of this title. 
The Secretary shall have the power to implement such reasonable limits 
to visitation and use of the conservation area as he finds appropriate 
for the protection of the resources of the conservation area, including 
requiring permits for public use, or closing portions of the 
conservation area to public use.

(c) Withdrawals

    Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within the 
conservation area are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, 
appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; from location, 
entry, and patent under the United States mining laws; and from 
disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing 
and all amendments thereto.

(d) Water rights

    Congress reserves for the purposes of this reservation, a quantity 
of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes of the San Pedro Riparian 
National Conservation Area created by this subchapter. The priority date 
of such reserve rights shall be November 18, 1988. The Secretary shall 
file a claim for the quantification of such rights in an appropriate 
stream adjudication.

(e) Enforcement

    Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter or any 
regulation promulgated by the Secretary to implement this subchapter 
shall be subject to a fine of up to $10,000, or imprisonment for up to 
one year, or both.

(Pub. L. 100-696, title I, Sec. 102, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4571.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, referred to in 
subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 94-579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, as 
amended, which is classified principally to chapter 35 (Sec. 1701 et 
seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of Title 43 
and Tables.
    The public land laws, referred to in subsec. (c), are classified 
generally to Title 43.
    The United States mining laws and the mineral leasing laws, referred 
to in subsec. (c), are classified generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands 
and Mining.
    Geothermal leasing laws, referred to in subsec. (c), are classified 
principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of Title 30.
