---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410eeee–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410eeee–8"
heading: "General management plan; submission to Congressional committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410eeee-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–CCC — New River Gorge National Park and Preserve"
---

# §410eeee–8. General management plan; submission to Congressional committees


Within three years from November 10, 1978, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410eee–1.md?p=2) shall develop and transmit to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, a general [management plan](/usc/16/544.md?p=k) for the protection and development of the national river consistent with the purposes of this subchapter, indicating—

- (1) measures for the preservation of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)’s resources;
- (2) indications of types and general intensities of development (including visitor circulation and transportation patterns, systems and modes) associated with public enjoyment and use of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), including general locations, timing of implementation, and anticipated costs;
- (3) identification of and implementation commitments for visitor carrying capacities for all [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of the [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4); and
- (4) indications of potential modifications to the external boundaries of the [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), and the reasons therefor.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–625, title XI, § 1109, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3548.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 460m–22 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.