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 Page 29 of 50
the impoundment at Menantico Lake, approximately 6.5 miles, to be administered by the Secretary of
the Interior as a scenic river.
(15 1) MANUMUSKIN RIVER, LOWER SEGMENT. -- From its confluence with the Maurice
River to a point 2.0 miles upstream, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as a recreational
river.
(152) MANUMUSKIN RIVER, UPPER SEGMENT. -- From a point 2.0 miles upstream from
its confluence with the Maurice River to its headwaters near Route 557, approximately 12.3 miles, to be
administered by the Secretary of the Interior as a scenic river.
(153) MUSKEE CREEK, NEW JERSEY. -- From its confluence with the Maurice River to the
Pennsylvania Seashore Line Railroad Bridge, approximately 2.7 miles, to be administered by the
Secretary of the Interior as a scenic river.21
(154) (A) RED RIVER, KENTUCKY. -- The 19.4 -mile segment of the Red River extending
from the Highway 746 Bridge to the School House Branch, to be administered by the Secretary of
Agriculture in the following classes: (i) the 9.1 -mile segment known as the "Upper Gorge" from the
Highway 746 Bridge to Swift Camp Creek, as a wild river (this segment is identified as having the same
boundary as the Kentucky Wild River), (ii) the 10.3 -mile segment known as the "Lower Gorge" from
Swift Camp Creek to the School House Branch, as a recreational river. (B) There are authorized to be
appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this paragraph.21
(155) RIO GRANDE, NEW MEXICO. -- The main stem from the southern boundary of the
segment of the Rio Grande designated pursuant to paragraph (4), downstream approximately 12 miles to
the west section line of Section 15, Township 23 North, Range 10 East, to be administered by the
Secretary of the Interior as a scenic river.22
(156) FARMINGTON RIVER, CONNECTICUT. -- The 14 -mile segment of the West Branch
and mainstem extending from immediately below the Goodwin Dam and Hydroelectric Project in
Hartland, Connecticut, to the downstream end of the New Hartford - Canton, Connecticut, town line
(hereinafter in the paragraph referred to as the "segment "), as a recreational river, to be administered by
the Secretary of the Interior through cooperative agreements between the Secretary of the Interior and
the State of Connecticut and its relevant political subdivisions, namely the Towns of Colebrook,
Hartland, Barkhamsted, New Hartford, and Canton and the Hartford Metropolitan District Commission,
pursuant to section 10(e) of this Act. The segment shall be managed in accordance with the Upper
Farmington River Management Plan, dated April 29, 1993, and such amendments thereto as the
Secretary of the Interior determines are consistent with this Act. Such plan shall be deemed to satisfy the
requirement for a comprehensive management plan pursuant to section 3(d) of this Act.23
Establishment of boundaries; classification.
(b) The agency charged with the administration of each component of the national wild and scenic
rivers system designated by subsection (a) of this section shall, within one year from the date of
designation of such component under subsection (a) (except where a different date if [is] provided in
subsection (a)), establish detailed boundaries therefor (which boundaries shall include an average of not
more than 320 acres of land per mile measured from the ordinary high water mark on both sides of the
river); and determine which of the classes outlined in section 2, subsection (b), of this Act best fit the
river or its various segments. Notice of the availability of the boundaries and classification, and of
subsequent boundary amendments shall be published in the Federal Register and shall not become
effective until ninety days after they have been forwarded to the President of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
Public availability of maps and descriptions.
(c) Maps of all boundaries and descriptions of the classifications of designated river segments, and
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