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PUBLIC LAW 92-400-AUG. 22, 1972

SEC. 12. Patents shall not hereafter be issued for locations and claims heretofore made in the recreation area under the mining laws of the United States. SEC. 13. There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act not more than $19,802,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and not more than $26,241,000 for development. Money appropriated from the land and water conservation fund shall be available for the acquisition of lands, waters, and interests therein within the recreation area. SEC. 14. (a) The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies, shall make a comprehensive analysis of the natural, economic, and cultural values of the recreation area and the adjacent Pioneer Mountains for the purpose of evaluating the potentiality of establishing therein a national park or other unit of the national park system. He shall submit a report of the results of the analysis along with his recommendations to the Congress by December 31, 1974. (b) His report shall show that in making the aforesaid recommendations he took into consideration, among other things— (1) the feasible alternative uses of the land and the long- and short-term effect of such alternative uses upon, but not limited to, the following— (A) the State and local economy, (B) the natural and cultural environment, (C) the management and use of water resources, (D) the management of grazing, timber, mineral, and other commercial activities, (E) the management of fish and wildlife resources, (F) the continued occupancy of existing homesites, campsites, commercial and public recreation enterprises, and other privately owned properties and the future development of the same, (Gr) the interrelation between recreation areas, wilderness areas and park lands, and (2) the establishment of a national park in the mountain peaks and upland areas together with such portions of the national recreation area as may be necessary and appropriate for the proper administration and public use of and access to such park lands, leaving the valleys and low-lying lands available for multiple-use purposes. (c) Any recommendation for the establishment of a unit of the national park system shall be accompanied by (1) a master plan for the development and administration of such unit, indicating proposed boundaries, access or other roads, visitor facilities, and proposed management concepts applicable to such unit; (2) a statement of the estimated Federal cost for acquisition, development, and operation of such unit; and (3) proposed legislation for establishment of such park administrative unit. (d) There are authorized to be appropriated not more than $50,000 to carry out the provisions of this section. SEC. 15. If any provision of this Act is declared to be invalid, such declaration shall not affect the validity of any other provision hereof. Approved August 22, 1972.

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