Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 94 Part 2.djvu/1117

 PUBLIC LAW 96-487—DEC. 2, 1980

94 STAT. 2395

(A) be based upon the identifications and the descriptions required to be made under paragraph (2)— (i) designate areas within the refuge according to their respective resources and values; (ii) specify the programs for conserving fish and wildhfe and the programs relating to maintaining the values referred to in paragraph (2)(B), proposed to be implemented within each such area; and (iii) specify the uses within each such area which may be compatible with the major purposes of the refuge; and (B) set forth those opportunities which will be provided within the refuge for fish and wildlife-oriented recreation, ecological research, environmental education and interpretation of refuge resources and values, if such recreation, research, education, and interpretation is compatible with the purposes of the refuge. (4) In preparing each plan and revisions thereto, the Secretary Public hearings shall consult with the appropriate State agencies and Native Corporations, and shall hold public hearings in such locations in the State as may be appropriate to insure that residents of local villages and political subdivisions of the State which will be primarily affected by the administration of the refuge concerned have opportunity to present their views with respect to the plan or revisions. (5) Before adopting a plan for any refuge, the Secretary shall issue Publication in public notice of the proposed plan in the Federal Register, make Federal Register. copies of the plan available at each regional office of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and provide opportunity for public views and comment on the plem. (6) With respect to refuges established, redesignated, or expanded by section 302 or 303 the Secretary shall prepare plans for— (A) not less than five refuges within three years after the date of the enactment of this Act; (B) not less than ten refuges within five years after such date; (C) all refuges within seven years after such date. With respect to any refuge established in the State after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall prepare a plan for the refuge within two years after the date of its establishment; and (D) in the case of any refuge established, redesignated, or Conservation expanded by this title with respect to which a wilderness review plan, submittal is required under this Act, at the same time the President to congressional committees. submits his recommendation concerning such unit under such section to the Congress, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress the conservation plan for that unit. PRIOR AUTHORITIES

SEC. 305. All proclamations, Executive orders, public land orders, and other administrative actions in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act with respect to units of the National Wildlife Refuge System in the State shall remain in force and effect except to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act or the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and, in any such case, the provisions of such Acts shall prevail. All land within the boundaries described or depicted in any such action shall, if the unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System concerned is incorporated within any refuge established or redesignated by or described in section 302 or 303, be included within such refuge. All funds available on such date of enactment for administration of any refuge shall remain available for the administration of such refuge.

43 USC 1601 note.

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