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[CITE: 16USC79m]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                  SUBCHAPTER VII--REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 79m. Annual reporting requirements; contents; comprehensive 
        general management plan; submission date and scope
        
    (a) The Secretary shall submit an annual written report to the 
Congress on January 1, 1979, and annually thereafter for ten years, 
reporting on the status of payment by the Secretary for real property 
acquired pursuant to section 79c(b)(1) and section 79b of this title; 
the status of the actions taken regarding land management practices and 
watershed rehabilitation efforts authorized by section 79c(e) and 
section 79k(b) of this title; the status of the efforts to mitigate 
adverse economic impacts as directed by this Act; this \1\ status of 
National Park Service employment requirements as authorized by section 
79l of this title; the status of the new bypass highway and of the 
agreement for the donation of the State park lands as contemplated by 
section 79c(b)(2) of this title; and, the status of the National Park 
Service general management plan for the park.
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    (b) No later than January 1, 1980, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives, and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the Senate, a comprehensive general management plan for Redwood National 
Park, to include but not be limited to the following:
        (1) the objectives, goals, and proposed actions designed to 
    assure the preservation and perpetuation of a natural redwood forest 
    ecosystem;
        (2) the type and level of visitor use to be accommodated by the 
    park, by specific area, with specific indications of carrying 
    capacities consistent with the protection of park resources;
        (3) the type, extent, and estimated cost of development proposed 
    to accommodate visitor use and to protect the resource, to include 
    anticipated location of all major development areas, roads, and 
    trails; and
        (4) the specific locations and types of foot trail access to the 
    Tall Trees Grove, of which one route shall, unless shown by the 
    Secretary to be inadvisable, principally traverse the east side of 
    Redwood Creek through the essentially virgin forest, connecting with 
    the roadhead on the west side of the park east of Orick.

(Pub. L. 95-250, title I, Sec. 104, Mar. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 170.)

                       References in Text

    Section 79c(b)(1) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in 
the original ``section 101(a)(4) . . . of this amendment'', meaning 
section 101(a)(4) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended section 79c(b)(1) of 
this title.
    Section 79b of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the 
original ``section 101(a)(2) of this amendment'', meaning section 
101(a)(2) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended subsecs. (a) and (b), and 
added subsec. (c), of section 79b of this title.
    Section 79c(e) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the 
original ``section 101(a)(6) . . . of this amendment'', meaning section 
101(a)(6) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended section 79c(e) of this title.
    Section 79k(b) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the 
original ``section 102(b) of this amendment'', meaning section 102(b) of 
Pub. L. 95-250, which enacted section 79k(b) of this title.
    This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), means Pub. L. 95-250, Mar. 27, 
1978, 92 Stat. 163, as amended, which, insofar as classified to the 
Code, enacted sections 79c-1, 79k to 79q of this title, amended sections 
1a-1, 79b, and 79c of this title, and enacted provisions set out as a 
note under section 79k of this title. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Tables.
    Section 79l of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the 
original ``section 102 of this amendment'', meaning section 103 of Pub. 
L. 95-250, which enacted section 79l of this title.
    Section 79c(b)(2) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in 
the original ``section 101(a)(5) of this amendment'', meaning section 
101(a)(5) of Pub. L. 95-250, which amended section 79c(b)(2) of this 
title.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of Pub. L. 90-545, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 
Stat. 931, which comprises this subchapter.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House 
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.


 Reference to Secretary as Reference to Secretary of Department of the 
                           Interior; Exception

    Reference to Secretary, unless otherwise indicated, as reference to 
Secretary of Department of the Interior, see section 109 of Pub. L. 95-
250, set out as a note under section 79k of this title.
