Great Smoky Mountain Wilderness Act

Summary

Great Smoky Mountain Wilderness Act - Designates specified lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee as the Great Smoky Mountains Wilderness. Sets forth requirements with respect to the management of the wilderness area. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to place a historical marker at or near the approach to the Cherokee Qualls Reservation at Soco Gap. Excludes U.S. Highway 441 between Cherokee, North Carolina, and Gatlinburg, Tennessee, from the boundaries of the wilderness area. Directs the Secretary to review Department practices regarding disease or insect outbreaks, forest fires, and the use of modern suppression methods and equipment in such wilderness area for effectiveness and policy compliance. Provides for the settlement of all claims of Swain County, North Carolina, against the United States under the agreement of July 30, 1943, providing for construction of a road along the north shore of Fontana Reservoir. Requires the National Park Service to provide limited motor vehicle access to family cemeteries in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act in the Hazel Creek area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park behind Fontana Dam. Authorizes appropriations for the building of such access. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Tennessee Valley Authority to maintain Fontana Lake, North Carolina, at a specified elevation level. Authorizes State and local government and citizen lawsuits to enforce compliance. Prohibits the transfer of water from Santeetlah Lake, North Carolina, to achieve such compliance.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 April 1985

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