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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act <br />Page 40 of 50 <br />such agencies if request for such joint study is made by the State, and shall include a determination of <br />the degree to which the State or its political subdivisions might participate in the preservation and <br />administration of the river should it be proposed for inclusion in the national wild and scenic rivers <br />system. <br />Federal agency consideration of wild and scenic values. <br />(d)(1) In all planning for the use and development of water and related land resources, <br />consideration shall be given by all Federal agencies involved to potential national wild, scenic and <br />recreational river areas, and all river basin and project plan reports submitted to the Congress shall <br />consider and discuss any such potentials. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture <br />shall make specific studies and investigations to determine which additional wild, scenic and <br />recreational river areas within the United States shall be evaluated in planning reports by all Federal <br />agencies as potential alternative uses of the water and related land resources involved. <br />(2) The Congress finds that the Secretary of the Interior, in preparing the Nationwide Rivers <br />Inventory as a specific study for possible additions to the national wild and scenic rivers system, <br />identified the Upper Klamath River from below the John Boyle Dam to the Oregon- California State line. <br />The Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, is authorized under this subsection to <br />complete a study of the eligibility and suitability of such segment for potential addition to the national <br />wild and scenic rivers system. Such study shall be completed, and a report containing the results of the <br />study shall be submitted to Congress by April 1, 1990. Nothing in this paragraph shall affect the <br />authority or responsibilities of any other Federal agency with respect to activities or action on this <br />segment and its immediate environment. <br />Acquisition procedures and limitations. <br />SECTION 6. (a)(1) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each <br />authorized to acquire lands and interests in land within the authorized boundaries of any component of <br />the national wild and scenic rivers system designated in section 3 of this Act, or hereafter designated for <br />inclusion in the system by Act of Congress, which is administered by him, but he shall not acquire fee <br />title to an average of more than 100 acres per mile on both sides of the river. Lands owned by a State <br />may be acquired only by donation or by exchange in accordance with the subsection (d) of this section. <br />Lands owned by an Indian tribe or a political subdivision of a State may not be acquired without the <br />consent of the appropriate governing body thereof as long as the Indian tribe or political subdivision is <br />following a plan for management and protection of the lands which the Secretary finds protects the land <br />and assures its use for purposes consistent with this Act. Money appropriated for Federal purposes from <br />the land and water conservation fund shall, without prejudice to the use of appropriations from other <br />sources, be available to Federal departments and agencies for the acquisition of property for the <br />purposes of this Act. <br />Federal agency consideration of wild and scenic values. <br />(2) When a tract of land lies partially within and partially outside the boundaries of a component <br />of the national wild and scenic rivers system, the appropriate Secretary may, with the consent of the <br />landowners for the portion outside the boundaries, acquire the entire tract. The land or interest therein so <br />acquired outside the boundaries shall not be counted against the average one - hundred- acre - per -mile fee <br />title limitation of subsection (a)(1). The lands or interests therein outside such boundaries, shall be <br />disposed of, consistent with existing authorities of law, by sale, lease, or exchange. <br />(b) If 50 per centum or more of the entire acreage outside the ordinary high water mark on both <br />sides of the river within a federally administered wild, scenic or recreational river area is owned in fee <br />title by the United States, by the State or States within which it lies, or by political subdivisions of those <br />http:// www. biologicaldiversity .org /swcbdIPrograms /watersheds /wildlwsract.html 8/29/2007 <br />