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 PUBLIC LAW 102-460—OCT. 23, 1992 106 STAT. 2271 Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission, and the Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission; and "(ii) consider previous plans for the protection of affected cultural, recreational, and natural resources (including water supply and water quality) and existing State and local regulations, so as to avoid unnecessary duplication. "(C) Pursuant to section ll(b)(l) of this Act, the Secretary shall undertake a river conservation plan for the segment of the Delaware River from the northern city limits of Trenton, New Jersey, to the Southern boundary of Budks County, Pennsylvania.". (c) EXISTING FACILITIES AND POSSIBLE ADDITIONS THERETO.— The study of the river segments and tributaries designated for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic lUvers System under subsection (a) shall not be used in any proceeding or otherwise to preclude, prevent, restrict, or interfere with the completion, continued or changed operation, maintenance, repair, construction, reconstruction, replacement, or modification of the Gilbert Generating Station and associated facilities, the Point Pleasant Pumping Station and associated facilities, the Portland Generating Station and associated facilities, the Martins Creek Steam Electric Station and associated facilities, or the Merrill Creek Reservoir Project and associated facilities, or with the licensing, permitting, relicensing, or repermitting of such projects, stations, and associated facilities. Such study designation shall not preclude or interfere with the licensing, permitting, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, relicensing, or repermitting of any additions to any such facilities, so long as such additions are outside the segments of the Delaware River designated for study by subsection (a) and impounded backwater from any such addition does not intrude on any such segment, and so long sis the values present in such segments on the date of enactment of this Act are not unreasonably diminished thereby. (d) TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES.— The study of the river segments and tributaries designated for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System under subsection (a) of this Act shall not be used in any proceeding or otherwise to preclude, prevent, restrict, or interfere with the present or future access to or operation, maintenance, repair, construction, reconstruction, replacement, or modification of electric or gas transmission or distribution lines across or a4jacent to such segments, or with the licensing, permitting, relicensing, or repermitting of such lines across such segments: Provided, however, That during Energy. the study of such segmente, each new electric or gas transmission

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