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000583 sible to the pubHc. Efforts to protect and preserve should extend beyond the Dislrict 10 include the whole basin. Florida The Executive Board of the Flor- Ida Department of Natural Re- sources in 1972 aulhOrized the con- cepl of a Slale Scenic and Wild RIVers Program Nine streams have been identified as candidates for the system None has been included Georgia Two polenhal rivers have been listed under the Georgia Scenic Rivers Act 01 1969 These are the Chattooga and Jacks River. Indiana Indiana's Natural, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers Program was established In 1973 10 preserve and protect Ihose STreams in Indiana possessing outstanding nalura! and scenic characteristics. Inclusion In the State.s Natural, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers System precludes public actions which would negatively allect nat. ural stream environments, Future development and destructive limber culling are prevented by the ac- quisition of conservation easemenls. The purChase of these easements does not alter the existing land use but prohibits future land uses or de- velopments which potentially could destroy the nalura! integrity of the stream and its banks, The easement IS permanently auached to the deed and the landowner receives a single payment lor the purchase of the easement. The easement program oIlers the opportunity to accom- plish lhe Intent of the 1973 Act With mimmum disturbance to the landowner and cost to the taxpayer, Two streams In Indiana have been designated components of the Indiana Natural, Scenic. and Recre- ational Rivers System, adminis- tered Dy the Department of Natural Resources The Blue River in south- 10 ~t ,II rj I F.\!} "j ; ,1 , J ~ . f~-" - "'(.i__ .. . -= The Potomac RI',er waterfront, Wash,ngton, DC. ern Indiana and Cedar Creek in northeastern Indiana Sugar Creek, in west-central Indiana, may be the neltt stream added to the system: It is the most heavily canoed stream In the Slate Kentucky The Kentucky 1972 Genera! As- sembly passed the Wild RIVers Act. As amended In 1974, II designated eight streams to be preserved and managed for posterity, The law specified preservation of lands 2,500 feet each side of the center- Ime at the stream or to the \Ilsual hOfllon. The 1976 General Assembly re- duced the 2,500 feel to 2,000 feel. On August 18, 1976, due to the Slmllatlty of programs, Governor Carroll, by Execulive Order 76.841 transferred the Wild RIVers Section to the Division of Water Resources, Management plans are now being prepared for each of the streams Identified and meetings are under- way With National Park; Service per- sonnel to formutate memoranda 01 agreements. Rivers in KentUCky's system in- clude the Cumberland, Red. Rock- castle, Green, Rock; Creek, and Big South Fork. Martins Fork, and Lillie South Fork 01 the Cumberland River, Louisiana Forty-three streams are included m the system established by Lou- iSiana's Natural and SceniC River Act 01 1970, The Stale lI~glslature 11\ \ 0... . ......~,,..., ii~-.-';."'''''''' ...-r--~-- - .~ .JI!. .::..,w ~ Tile Suwannee River in Georgia and FIOllda f'ncourages riparian owners to grant scenic easements and surlace easements. No provision has been made for funding the system. Maryland The Maryland SceniC and Wild Rivers Act was fIrst passed in 1968 Recent amendments have desig- naled a total of nine rivers as ini- tial components of the State Scenic and Wild Rivers System, With the eJO:ception of the Youghiogheny, mese fivers are not claSSified as either wild or sceniC, wilh lhis clas- sitlcation to be done by the Depart- ment 01 Natural Resources after study and planning The act sets torth two basic tasks to be carned out under the general scenic rivers program. First, the Department is to prepare a study and plan for the use and develop- ment of fhe wafer and related land