1.This Act may be cited as
the Sacramento River National
Recreation Area Act of 2007
.
2.In this Act:
(1)The term management plan
means the management
plan for the Recreation Area prepared under section 4(b).
(2)The term Recreation Area
means the Sacramento
River National Recreation Area.
(3)The
term Secretary
means the Secretary of the Interior.
(4)The
term State
means the State of California.
3.Establishment of
Sacramento River National Recreation Area
(a)To conserve, protect, and enhance the riparian and
associated areas described in subsection (b) (including the outstanding
ecological, geological, scenic, recreational, cultural, and historic resources,
the fish and wildlife values, and other resources of the areas), there is
established the Sacramento River National Recreation Area in the State, to be
managed by the Redding Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management.
(b)The
Recreation Area shall consist of the public land in Tehama County and Shasta
County, California, comprising approximately 17,000 acres adjacent to the
Sacramento River, lower Battle Creek, and lower Paynes Creek, as generally
depicted on the map entitled Sacramento River National Recreation
Area
and dated May 2002.
(c)
(1)As soon as practicable, but not later than 3 years, after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a map and legal
description of the Recreation Area to—
(A)the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and
(B)the Committee on
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
(2)The
map and legal description submitted under paragraph (1) shall have the same
force and effect as if included in this Act, except that the Secretary may
correct any clerical and typographical errors in the map and legal
description.
(3)Copies
of the map submitted under paragraph (1) shall be on file and available for
public inspection in—
(A)the Office of the
Director of the Bureau of Land Management; and
(B)the appropriate
office of the Bureau of Land Management in California.
4.
(a)The Secretary shall manage the Recreation Area in a
manner that conserves, protects, and enhances the resources and values of the
Recreation Area (including the resources described in section 3(a)), in
accordance with—
(1)this Act;
(2)the
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976 (43
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and
(3)any other
applicable law.
(b)Recreation area
management plan
(1)Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall submit a comprehensive plan for the long-range
protection and management of the Recreation Area to—
(A)the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and
(B)the Committee on
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
(2)The management plan—
(A)shall describe
the appropriate uses and management of the Recreation Area in accordance with
this Act;
(B)may incorporate
any appropriate decisions, as determined by the Secretary, that are contained
in any management or activity plan for the area completed before the date of
enactment of this Act;
(C)may incorporate
appropriate wildlife habitat management plans or other plans prepared for the
land within or adjacent to the Recreation Area before the date of enactment of
this Act;
(D)shall be prepared
in consultation with—
(i)appropriate
Federal, State, and local agencies (including Tehama County and Shasta County,
California);
(ii)adjacent
landowners; and
(iii)other
stakeholders; and
(E)may use
information developed under any studies of land within or adjacent to the
Recreation Area carried out before the date of enactment of this Act.
(c)Subject
to valid existing rights, all Federal land within the Recreation Area is
withdrawn from—
(1)all forms of
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws;
(2)location, entry,
and patent under the mining laws; and
(3)disposition under
all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing.
(d)The Secretary shall allow hunting and fishing within the
Recreation Area in accordance with any applicable Federal and State laws
(including regulations).
(e)The use of motorized vehicles on public land in the
Recreation Area shall be limited to established roadways.
(f)
(1)Nothing in this Act restricts the use of motorized boats
on the Sacramento River.
(2)Tehama
County and Shasta County, California, and the California Department of Boating
and Waterways shall retain authority to regulate motorized boating for the
purpose of ensuring public safety and environmental protection.
(g)The
Secretary may permit the grazing of livestock to continue on any public land in
the Recreation Area in which grazing is permitted on the date of enactment of
this Act—
(1)subject to any
regulations, policies, and practices that the Secretary determines to be
necessary; and
(2)consistent
with—
(A)this Act;
(B)the
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976 (43
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and
(C)any regulations
promulgated by the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land
Management.
(h)
(1)The Secretary may acquire, by donation, transfer,
purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, any land or interests
in land within the boundaries of the Recreation Area depicted on the map
prepared under section 3(c).
(2)No
land or interest in land may be acquired under paragraph (1) without the
consent of the owner of the land.
5.Authorization of
appropriationsThere are
authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this
Act.