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PUBLIC LAW 87-714-SEPT. 28, 1962

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Public Law 87-714 - ^

ACT

To assure continued fish and wildlife benefits from the national fish and wildlife conservation areas by authorizing their appropriate incidental or secondary use for public recreation to the extent that such use is compatible with the primary purposes of such areas, and for other purposes.

September 28, 1962

[H. R. 1171]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in recognition interior Dept. of mounting public demands for recreational opportunities on national and^"i°^ff "^^ wildlife refuges, game ranges, national fish hatcheries, and other ^e^, public conservation areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior for recreational use. 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 w'henever he considers such action to be necessary: And frovided 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 wth 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. SEC. 2. I n order to avoid adverse effects upon fish and wildlife Land ac qui sipopulations and management operations of the said areas that might "°"' otherwise result from public recreation or visitation to such areas, the Secretary is authorized to acquire limited areas of land for recreational development adjacent to the said conservation areas in existence or approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission as of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, That the acquisition of any land or interest therein pursuant to this section shall be accomplished only with such funds as may be appropriated therefor by the Congress or donated for such purposes, but such property shall not be acquired with funds obtained from the sale of Federal migratory bird hunting stamps. Lands acquired pursuant to this section shall become a part of the particular conservation area to which they are adjacent. SEC. 3. In furtherance of the purposes of this Act, the Secretary is Acceptance of authorized to cooperate with public and private agencies, organiza- ^""^8, etc. ti'^ns, and individuals, and he may accept and use, without further

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