CITE

    16 USC Sec. 460k                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER LXVIII - NATIONAL CONSERVATION RECREATIONAL AREAS

HEAD

    Sec. 460k. Public recreation use of fish and wildlife conservation
      areas; compatibility with conservation purposes; appropriate
      incidental or secondary use; consistency with other Federal
      operations and primary objectives of particular areas;
      curtailment; forms of recreation not directly related to primary
      purposes of individual areas; repeal or amendment of provisions
      for particular areas

STATUTE

      In recognition of mounting public demands for recreational
    opportunities on areas within the National Wildlife Refuge System,
    national fish hatcheries, and other conservation areas administered
    by the Secretary of the Interior for fish and wildlife purposes;
    and in recognition also of the resulting imperative need, if such
    recreational opportunities are provided, to assure that any present
    or future recreational use will be compatible with, and will not
    prevent accomplishment of, the primary purposes for which the said
    conservation areas were acquired or established, the Secretary of
    the Interior is authorized, as an appropriate incidental or
    secondary use, to administer such areas or parts thereof for public
    recreation when in his judgment public recreation can be an
    appropriate incidental or secondary use: Provided, That such public
    recreation use shall be permitted only to the extent that is
    practicable and not inconsistent with other previously authorized
    Federal operations or with the primary objectives for which each
    particular area is established: Provided further, That in order to
    insure accomplishment of such primary objectives, the Secretary,
    after consideration of all authorized uses, purposes, and other
    pertinent factors relating to individual areas, shall curtail
    public recreation use generally or certain types of public
    recreation use within individual areas or in portions thereof
    whenever he considers such action to be necessary: And provided
    further, That none of the aforesaid refuges, hatcheries, game
    ranges, and other conservation areas shall be used during any
    fiscal year for those forms of recreation that are not directly
    related to the primary purposes and functions of the individual
    areas until the Secretary shall have determined -
        (a) that such recreational use will not interfere with the
      primary purposes for which the areas were established, and
        (b) that funds are available for the development, operation,
      and maintenance of these permitted forms of recreation. This
      section shall not be construed to repeal or amend previous
      enactments relating to particular areas.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 87-714, Sec. 1, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 653; Pub. L. 89-
    669, Sec. 9, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 930.)

AMENDMENTS

      1966 - Pub. L. 89-669 substituted "areas within the National
    Wildlife Refuge System" for "national wildlife refuges, game
    ranges" in introductory text.
                                SHORT TITLE
      Pub. L. 87-714, which enacted this subchapter, is popularly known
    as the "Refuge Recreation Act".