An Act to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating the Chattooga River, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes.
PL 93-279 (H.R.9492), enacted 05/10/1974

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PUBLIC LAW 93-279-MAY 10, 1974 
[88 STAT. 
May 10, 1974 
[H. R.9492] 
Public Law 93-279 
AN ACT 
To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating the Chattooga River, 
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia as a component of the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes. 
Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act, 
amendments. 
16 u s e 1271 
note. 
16 u s e 1274. 
Appropriation. 
16 u s e 1275. 
Studies, sub-
mittal to Presi-
dent. 
Report to 
eongress. 
16 u s e 1276. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act (82 Stat. 908; 16 U.S.C. 1274 et seq.), as amended, 
is further amended as follows: 
(a) In section 3(a) after paragraph (9) insert the following new 
paragraph : 
"(10) 
CHATTOOGA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA.— 
The Segment from 0.8 mile below Cashiers Lake in North Carolina to 
Tugaloo Reservoir, and the West Fork Chattooga River from its junc-
tion with Chattooga upstream 7.3 miles, as generally depicted on the 
boundary map entitled 'Proposed Wild and Scenic Chattooga River 
and Corridor Boundary', dated August 1973; to be administered by 
the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided^ That the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall take such action as is provided for under subsection (b) of 
this section within one year from the date of enactment of this para-
graph (10) : Provided further^ That for the purposes of this river, 
there are authorized to be appropriated not more than $2,000,000 for 
the acquisition of lands and interests in lands and not more than 
$809,000 for development.". 
(b) (1) In section 4 delete subsection (a) and insert in lieu thereof 
the following: 
"SEC. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Interior or, where national forest 
lands are involved, the Secretary of Agriculture or, in appropriate 
cases, the two Secretaries jointly shall study and submit to the Presi-
dent reports on the suitability or nonsuitability for addition to the 
national wild and scenic rivers system of rivers which are designated 
herein or hereafter by the Congress as potential additions to such sys-
tem. The President shall report to the Congress his recommendations 
and proposals with respect to the designation of each such river or 
section thereof under this Act. Such studies shall be completed and 
such reports shall be made to the Congress with respect to all rivers 
named in subparagraphs 5(a) (1) through (27) of this Act no later 
than October 2, 1978. In conducting these studies the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall give priority to those 
rivers w^ith respect to which there is the greatest likelihood of develop-
ments which, if undertaken, would render the rivers unsuitable for 
inclusion in the national wild and scenic rivers system. Every such 
study and plan shall be coordinated with any water resources planning 
involving the same river which is being conducted pursuant to the 
Water Resources Planning Act (79 Stat. 244; 42 U.S.C. 1962 et seq.). 
"Each report, including maps and illustrations, shall show among 
other things the area included within the report; the characteristics 
which do or do not make the area a worthy addition to the system; 
the current status of land ownership and use in the area; the reason-
ably foreseeable potential uses of the land and water which would be 
enhanced, foreclosed, or curtailed if the area Avere included in the 
national wild and scenic rivers system; the Federal agency (which in 
the case of a river which is wholly or substantially within a national 
forest, shall be the Department of Agriculture) by which it is pro-
posed the area, should it be added to the system, be administered; the 
extent to which it is proposed that such administration, including the 
costs thereof, be shared by State and local agencies; and the estimated 
cost to the United States of acquiring necessary lands and interests in 
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land and of administering the area, should it be added to the system. 
Each such report shall be printed as a Senate or House document." 
(2) In section 5 delete subsection (b) and reletter subsections (c) 
and (d) as (b) and (c), respectively. 
(3) In section 7(b) delete clause (i) and insert in lieu thereof the 
following: 
"(i) during the ten-year period following enactment of this 
Act or for a three complete fiscal year period following any Act 
of Congress designating any river for potential addition to the 
national wild and scenic rivers system, whichever is later, unless, 
prior to the expiration of the relevant period, the Secretary of the 
Interior and, where national forest lands are involved, the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, on the basis of study, determine that such 
river should not be included in the national wild and scenic rivers 
system and notify the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs 
of the United States Congress, in writing, including a copy of the 
study upon which the determination was made, at least one hun-
dred and eighty days while Congress is in session prior to pub-
lishing notice to that effect in the Federal Register, and". 
(4) In section 7(b) (ii) delete "which is recommended", insert in 
lieu thereof "the report for which is submitted", and delete "for 
inclusion in the national wild and scenic rivers system". 
(c) In section 15(c) delete "for the purpose of protecting the 
scenic view from the river," and insert in lieu thereof "within the 
authorized boundaries of a component of the wild and scenic rivers 
system, for the purpose of protecting the natural qualities of a 
designated wild, scenic or recreational river area,". 
(d) Delete section 16 and insert in lieu thereof: 
"SEC. 16. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, 
including such sums as have heretofore been appropriated, the fol-
lowing amounts for land acquisition for each of the rivers described 
in section 3(a) of this Act: 
Clearwater, Middle Fork, Idaho, $2,909,800; 
Eleven Point, Missouri, $4,906,500; 
Feather, Middle Fork, California, $3,935,700; 
Rio Grande, New Mexico, $253,000; 
Rogue, Oregon, $12,447,200; 
St. Croix, Minnesota and Wisconsin, $11,768,550; 
Salmon, Middle Fork, Idaho, $1,237,100; and 
Wolf, Wisconsin, $142,150. 
"(b) The authority to make the appropriations authorized in this 
section shall expire on June 30,1979." 
Approved May 10, 1974. 
Printing as 
Senate or House 
document. 
16 u s e 1276. 
16 u s e 1278. 
Notification to 
congressional 
committees. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
16 u s e 1286. 
Appropriation. 
16 u s e 1287. 
Ante, 
p. 122,. 
Expiration date. 
Public Law 93-280 
AN ACT 
To authorize certain Federal agencies to detail personnel and to loan equipment 
to the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Department of the Interior. 
May 10, 1974 
[H. R.8101] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asse7nhled, That the paragraph 
Bureau o
f sport 
headed "Propagation of Food Fishes" of the Act of March 3,1885 (23 VX^mT """ 
Stat. 494; 16 U.S.C. 743), is amended— 
Federal agency 
(1) by inserting " (1)" immediately after "Fishes:"; 
'::^:lX^:r:' 
(2) by striking out the last sentence thereof; and 
(3) 
by adding at the end thereof the following 
new 
subparagraph: