Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

• Description: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
• State: CO
• Date: 8/29/2007
• Title: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Legislation

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
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for administration and management of federally owned lands. For purposes of the preceding sentence,
amounts made available to any State or political subdivision under the Land and Water Conservation
[Fund] Act of 1965 or any other provision of law shall not be treated as an expense to the United States.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to provide for the transfer to, or administration by, a State
or local authority of any federally owned lands which are within the boundaries of any river included
within the system under clause (ii).
Classification.
(b) A wild, scenic or recreational river area eligible to be included in the system is a free - flowing
stream and the related adjacent land area that possesses one or more of the values referred to in Section
1, subsection (b) of this Act. Every wild, scenic or recreational river in its free - flowing condition, or
upon restoration to this condition, shall be considered eligible for inclusion in the national wild and
scenic rivers system and, if included, shall be classified, designated, and administered as one of the
following:
(1) Wild river areas -- Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free of impoundments and
generally inaccessible except by trail, with watersheds or shorelines essentially primitive and waters
unpolluted. These represent vestiges of primitive America.
(2) Scenic river areas -- Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free of impoundments, with
shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in
places by roads.
(3) Recreational river areas -- Those rivers or sections of rivers that are readily accessible by road
or railroad, that may have some development along their shorelines, and that may have undergone some
impoundment or diversion in the past.
Congressionally designated components.
SECTION 3. (a) The following rivers and the land adjacent thereto are hereby designated as
components of the national wild and scenic rivers system:
(1) CLEARWATER, MIDDLE FORK, IDAHO. -- The Middle Fork from the town of Kooskia
upstream to the town of Lowell; the Lochsa River from its junction with the Selway at Lowell forming
the Middle Fork, upstream to the Powell Ranger Station; and the Selway River from Lowell upstream to
its origin; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.
(2) ELEVEN POINT, MISSOURI. -- The segment of the river extending downstream from
Thomasville, to State Highway 142; to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. I a
(3) FEATHER, CALIFORNIA. -- The entire Middle Fork downstream from the confluence of
its tributary streams one kilometer south of Beckwourth, California; to be administered by the Secretary
of Agriculture.
(4) RIO GRANDE, NEW MEXICO. -- The segment extending from the Colorado State line
downstream to the State Highway 96 crossing, and the lower four miles of the Red River; to be
administered by the Secretary of the Interior.
(5) ROGUE, OREGON. -- The segment of the river extending from the mouth of the Applegate
River downstream to the Lobster Creek Bridge; to be administered by agencies of the Departments of
the Interior or Agriculture as agreed upon by the Secretaries of said Departments or as directed by the
President.
(6) SAINT CROIX, MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN. -- The segment between the dam near
Taylors Falls, Minnesota, and the dam near Gordon, Wisconsin, and its tributary, the Namekagon, from
Lake Namekagon downstream to its confluence with the Saint Croix; to be administered by the
Secretary of the Interior; Provided, That except as may be required in connection with items (a) and (b)
of this paragraph, no funds available to carry out the provisions of this Act may be expended for the
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