103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3252
AN ACT
To provide for the conservation, management, or
study of certain rivers, parks, trails, and historic
sites, and for other purposes.
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3252
AN ACT
To provide for the conservation, management, or study of
certain rivers, parks, trails, and historic sites, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I—RIVERS
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘West Virginia Rivers
Conservation Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 102. NEW RIVER GORGE NATIONAL RIVER.
Section 1101 of the National Parks and Recreation
Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 460m–15) is amended by striking
out ‘‘NERI–80,023, dated January 1987’’ and inserting
‘‘NERI–80,028, dated January 1993’’.
SEC. 103. GAULEY RIVER NATIONAL RECREATION AREA.
Section 201(b) of the West Virginia National Interest
River Conservation Act of 1987 (16 U.S.C. 460ww(b)) is
amended by striking out ‘‘NRA–GR/20,000A and dated
July 1987’’ and inserting ‘‘GARI–80,001 and dated Janu-
ary 1993’’.
SEC. 104. BLUESTONE NATIONAL SCENIC RIVER.
Section 3(a)(65) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
(16 U.S.C. 1274(a)(65)) is amended by striking out
‘‘WSR–BLU/20,000, and dated January 1987’’ and in-
serting ‘‘BLUE–80,004, and dated January 1993’’.
SEC. 105. DESIGNATION OF UPPER NEW RIVER, WEST VIR-
GINIA.
Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16
U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amended by adding the following new
paragraph at the end:
‘‘( ) UPPER NEW RIVER, WEST VIRGINIA.—(A) The
segment in Summers County, West Virginia, from the
West Virginia-Virginia State line downstream for approxi-
mately 14.5 miles as depicted on the boundary map enti-
tled ‘Upper New Wild and Scenic River’, numbered UPNE
80,000 and dated July 1993; to be administered by the
Secretary of the Interior as a scenic river.
‘‘(B) The acreage limitation set forth in subsection
(b) shall not apply to the segment designated under this
paragraph. Nothing in this Act shall preclude the improve-
ment of any existing road or right-of-way within the
boundaries of the segment designated under this para-
graph.
‘‘(C) Jurisdiction over all lands and improvements on
such lands owned by the United States within the bound-
aries of the segment designated under this paragraph is
hereby transferred without reimbursement to the adminis-
trative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, subject
to the lease in effect on the date of enactment of this para-
graph (or renewed thereafter) between the United States
and the State of West Virginia with respect to the
Bluestone Wildlife Management Area.
‘‘(D) Nothing in this Act shall affect the management
by the State of West Virginia of hunting and fishing with-
in the segment designated under this paragraph. Nothing
in this Act shall affect or impair the management by the
State of West Virginia of other wildlife activities in the
Bluestone Wildlife Management Area to the extent per-
mitted in the lease agreement as in effect on the date of
enactment of this paragraph, and if the State of West Vir-
ginia so requests, the Secretary shall renew such lease
agreement with the same terms and conditions as con-
tained in such lease agreement on the date of enactment
of this paragraph under which such State management
shall be continued pursuant to such renewal. If requested