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4... - 1,/ . .~"'(1 ':~r JOhn boalers ease along MlssoUli"s Eleven POlf1r River. the Deoartment 01 Agricullure with representatives of concerned Stales, their political subdivisions. and con. cerned Federal agencies. The studies form the basIs ot reporlS 10 the Presidenl and Ihe Congress Each Study report contains informa- tion and makes recommendations abouI Ihe river's eligibility for in- ClUSion in the National System, and :ndicates how uses of The land and water would be enhanced. to~e- Closed. or curtailed If me fiver and lIS adlacerl lands were added to :Msyslem adVice, and encouragement to the Slates. pOlilical subdivisions. and private organizations In their eftolts to establish State and local wild, scenic and recreational river areas River Studies and Reports River studies are conducted b'l Study teams under the leadershiP of :~e Department 01 1M Imerior or 000576 Present System Since Oclober 1968. there have been sill amendments to The Wild and ScenIC Rivers Act which have resulted, among other Things. in the addition 01 seven rivers to the National System under Federal ad- mlnistrallon and the designation 01 31 additional rivers for study as potential components of the Na. lional System. As of January 1977, there are 19 rivers or river segmenls, lotaling some 1.655 miles, m the National Wild and SceniC Rivers System, 11 01 which have been added Since passage 01 the act. River mileages, by classihcatlon, are apprOllimately: Wild--689: Scenic-463; and Aec- reatlonaf-503, Fifteen of the riv. ers in the National System are adminlslered by Federal agencies, ie, National Park Service, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Manage- ment, and lhe Fish and Wildlife Service Four are wholly under lhe admlnlstrahon 01 States' Maine, Ohio (2), and North Carolina Ten. nessee, Minnesota, and Wisconsin share administrative responsibilities with lhe National Park Service on por1ions of two olher rivers Some details on the rivers cur- rently m the National System and those under study may be found in Table 1-River Mileage Classifi- cations for Components of the Na- tional Wild and Scenic Rivers Sys- tem, dated January 1977, and Figure 1-National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, As Authorized by P L. 90- 542. As Amended. daled January 1977 Based on aVi'lilable mformatlon, 24 States have some form of fivers preservalion program. backed by speCific legiSlation. 10 enr.ance the values of their free-flOWing rivers. Two olher Slates nave admlnls:ra- tIVe or executive aUlhCrlly to initi- ate sceniC rivers prograf"""lS or 10 study selected rivers for inclusion In a Slate system, ThiS does not mean that all tnese Stales nave Slrong and el~ective rivers preserva. tion mechanisms in e'lec! T'Je pro- grams run the gamul from merely 3 I I