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1283. Assistance In financing State and local projects. 



1383. Administration and management policies. 



(a) Review by Secretaries and heads of agencies. 



(b) ExUtlng rights, privileges, and contracts af- 



fecting Federal lands. 



(c) Water pollution. 



1384. ExUtlng State Jurisdiction and responsibilities. 



(a) Pish and wlldUfe. 



(b) Compensation for water rlghu. 



(c) Reservation of waters for other purposes or 



In unnecessary quantities prohibited. 



(d) State Jurisdiction over Included streams. 



(e) Interstate compacts. 



(f) Rights of access to streams. 



(g) Easements and rights-of-way. 



1385. Claim and allowance of charitable deduction for 



contribution or gift of easement. 



1386. Denmtlons. 



1387. Authorization of appropriations. 



§ 1271. Congressional declaration of policy. 



It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United 



States that certain selected rivers of the Nation 

 which, with their immediate environments, possess 

 outstandindly remarkable scenic, recreational, geo- 

 logrtc fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or other 

 similar values, shall be preserved in free-flowing con- 

 dition, and that they and their immediate environ- 

 ments shall be protected for the benefit and enjoy- 

 ment of present and future generations. The Con- 

 gress declares that the established national policy 

 of dam and other construction at appropriate sec- 

 tions of the rivers of the United States needs to be 

 complemented by a policy that would preserve other 

 selected rivers or sections thereof in their free-flow- 

 ing condition to protect the water quality of such 

 rivers and to fulfill other vital national conserva- 

 tion purposes. (Pub L 90-542. § Kb), Oct. 2, 1968. 

 82 Stat. 906.) 



§ 1272. Congressional declaration of purpose. 



The purpose of this chapter is to implement the 

 policy set out in section 1271 of this title by institut- 

 ing a national wild and scenic rivers system, by 

 designating the initial components of that system, 

 and by prescribing the methods by which and stand- 

 ards according to which additional comjionents may 

 be added to the system from time to time. (Pub. L. 

 90-542. § 1(c) , Oct. 2, 1968. 82 Stat. 906.) 



§1273. National wild and scenic rivers system; Con- 

 gressional authorization for inclusion; designa- 

 tion by State legislatures; permanent administra- 

 tion by States; application for inclusion by 

 Governors; satisfaction of criteria; eligilniity for 

 inclusion. 



(a) The national wild and scenic rivers system 

 shall comprise rivers (i) that are authorized for 

 inclusion therein by Act of Congress, or (ii) that are 

 designated as wild, scenic or recreational rivers by or 

 pursuant to an act of the legislature of the State 

 or States through which they flow, that are to be 

 permanently administered as wild, scenic or recrea- 

 tional rivers by an agency or politicjrhsubdivision of 

 the State or States concerned without expense to the 

 United States, that are found by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, uF>on application of the Governor of the 

 State or the Governors of the States concerned, or 

 a person or persons thereunto duly appointed by him 



or them, to meet the criteria established in this 

 chapter and such criteria supplementary thereto as 

 he may prescribe, and that are approved by him for 

 inclusion in the system, including, upon application 

 of the Governor of the State concerned, the AUagash 

 Wilderness Waterway, Maine ; that segment of the 

 Wolf River, Wisconsin, which flows through 

 Langlade County; and that segment of the New 

 River in North Carolina extending from its con- 

 fluence with Dog Creek downstream approximately 

 26.5 miles to the Virginia State line. 



(b) A wild, scenic or recreational river area eligible 

 to be included in the system is a free-flowing stream 

 and the related adjacent land area that possesses one 

 or more of the values referred to in section 1271 of 

 this title. Every wild, scenic or recreational river In 

 its free-flowing condition, or upon restoration to this 

 condition, shall be considered eligible for inclusion 

 in the national wild and scenic rivers system and, if 

 Included, shall be classified, designated, and admin- 

 istered as one of the following: 



( 1 ) Wild river areas — Those rivers or sections of 

 rivers that are free of Impoundments and gen- 

 erally inaccessible except by trail, with watersheds 

 or shorelines essentially primitive and waters 

 unpolluted. These represent vestiges of primitive 

 America. 



(2) Scenic river areas — Those rivers or sections 

 of rivers that are free of impoundments, with 

 shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and 

 shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible In 

 places by roads. 



(3) Recreational river areas — Those rivers or 

 sections of rivers that are readily accessible by 

 road or railroad, that may have some development 

 along their shorelines, and that may have under- 

 gone some impoundment or diversion In the past. 



(Pub. L. 90-542, § 2, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 906.) 



§1274. Component rivers and adjacent lands; estab- 

 lishment of boundaries; classification; develop- 

 ment plans. 



(a) The following rivers and the land adjacent 



thereto are hereby designated as components of the 



national wild and scenic rivers system : 



(1) Clearwater, Middle Fork, Idaho. — The Mid- 

 dle Pork from the town of Kooskia upstream to the 

 town of Lowell: the Lochsa River from its junction 

 with the Selway at Lowell forming the Middle Fork, 

 upstream to the Powell Ranger Station: and the Sel- 

 way River from Lowell upstream to its origin; to be 

 administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. 



(2) Eleventh Point, Missouri. — The segment of 

 the river extending downstream from Thomasville 

 to State Highway 142; to be administered by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



(3) Peathtr, California. — The entire Middle 

 Fork downstream from the confluence of its tribu- 

 tary streams one kilometer south of Beckworth, 

 California; to be administered by the Secretary 

 of Agriculture. 



(4) Rio Grande, New Mexico. — The segment ex- 

 tending from the Colorado State line downstream to 

 the State Highway 96 crossing, and the lower four 

 miles of the Red River; to be administered by the 

 Secretary of the Interior. 



