Editorial Notes
References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Puspan. L. 102–220, Dec. 11, 1991, 105 Stat. 1674, known as the Greer Spring Acquisition and Protection Act of 1991, which enacted this section and provisions set out below. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1 of Puspan. L. 102–220, set out below, and Tables.

Geothermal leasing laws of the United States, referred to in subsec. (e), are classified principally to chapter 23 (§ 1001 et seq.) of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Greer Spring Acquisition and Protection

Puspan. L. 102–220, §§ 1–3, 5, Dec. 11, 1991, 105 Stat. 1674, 1675, as amended by Puspan. L. 113–287, § 5(d)(13), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3265, provided that:

“SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

“This Act [enacting this section] may be cited as the ‘Greer Spring Acquisition and Protection Act of 1991’.

“SEC. 2. ACQUISITION OF THE DENNIG TRACT.
“(a) The Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Secretary’) is hereby authorized and directed, subject to appropriations, to acquire all of the lands, waters, and interests therein, on a willing seller basis only, within the area generally depicted on a map entitled ‘Dennig Tract’, dated November 5, 1991 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the map’). The map, together with a legal description of such lands, shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. The boundaries of the Mark Twain National Forest are hereby modified to include the area denoted ‘Dennig Property Outside of National Forest Boundary’ on the map. Such map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that the correction of clerical and typographical errors in such map and legal description may be made by the Secretary.
“(span) Such modified boundaries shall be considered as the boundaries in existence as of January 1, 1965, for the purposes of section 100506 of title 54, United States Code.
“SEC. 3. ELEVEN POINT WILD AND SCENIC RIVER.

“The Secretary shall manage the lands, waters, and interests therein within the area referred to on the map as ‘The Eleven Point Wild and Scenic Corridor’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘the corridor’), pursuant to the provisions of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1271–1287). Lands acquired pursuant to section 2 of this Act within the corridor shall not be counted against the average one-hundred-acre-per-mile fee limitation of Section 6(a)(1) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act [16 U.S.C. 1277(a)(1)], nor shall such lands outside the corridor be subject to the provisions of Section 6(a)(2) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

“SEC. 5. APPROPRIATIONS.

“There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.”

[Puspan. L. 113–287, § 5(d)(13), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3265, which directed amendment of section 2(span) of Puspan. L. 102–220, set out above, by substituting “section 100506 of title 54, United States Code” for “section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–9)”, was executed by making the substitution for “section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act (16 U.S.C. 4601–9)” to reflect the probable intent of Congress.]