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It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation which, with their immediate environments, possess outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing condition, and that they and their imm...
The files below represent the original Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, as amended, and the individual amendments since 1968. The amendments to the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act represent 16 USC, Sections 1271-1287. Also included are the Federal Register notices for Section 2 (a) (ii) designations.
(b) A wild, scenic or recreational river area eligible to be in-cluded in the system is a free-flowing stream and the related adja-cent land area that possesses one or more of the values referred to in section 1, subsection (b) of this Act. Every wild, scenic or rec-reational river in its free-flowing condition, or upon restoration to
wild and scenic rivers system. Section 7(b) of the Act provides the same protection to congressionally authorized, 5(a), study rivers except that the qualifying word “unreasonably” does not appear before “diminish.”
The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (PL 90-542:16 USC 1271-1287, as amended) is designed to preserve certain rivers and streams with outstanding natural, heritage, or recreational features in a free-flowing condition for the enjoyment of present and future generations.
DESIGNATION OF LOWER BLUESTONE RIVER. Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amended by adding the following new paragraph at the end: “( ) BLUESTONE, WEST VIRGINIA.—The segment in Mercer and Summers Counties, West Virginia, from a point approximately two
This legislation --the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (Act) -- was signed into law as Public Law 90-542 on October 2, 1968. Section 1(b) of the Act expresses Congressional policy for America’s rivers:
