---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 79m"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "79m"
heading: "Annual reporting requirements; contents; comprehensive general management plan; submission date and scope"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/79m"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VII — Redwood National Park"
---

# §79m. Annual reporting requirements; contents; comprehensive general management plan; submission date and scope

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall submit an annual written report to the Congress on January 1, 1979, and annually thereafter for ten years, reporting on the status of payment by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) for real property acquired pursuant to [section 79c(b)(1)](/usc/16/79c.md?p=b-1) and [section 79b of this title](/usc/16/79b.md); the status of the actions taken regarding land management practices and watershed rehabilitation efforts authorized by [section 79c(e)](/usc/16/79c.md?p=e) and [section 79k(b) of this title](/usc/16/79k.md?p=b); the status of the efforts to mitigate adverse economic impacts as directed by this Act; this[^1] status of National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service employment requirements as authorized by [section 79l](/usc/16/79l.md) of this title; the status of the new bypass highway and of the agreement for the donation of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) lands as contemplated by [section 79c(b)(2) of this title](/usc/16/79c.md?p=b-2); and, the status of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service general [management plan](/usc/16/544.md?p=k) for the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).
- (b) No later than January 1, 1980, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall submit to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, a comprehensive general [management plan](/usc/16/544.md?p=k) for Redwood National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), to include but not be limited to the following:
  - (1) the objectives, goals, and proposed actions designed to assure the preservation and perpetuation of a natural redwood forest ecosystem;
  - (2) the type and level of visitor use to be accommodated by the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), by specific [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), with specific indications of carrying capacities consistent with the protection of [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) resources;
  - (3) the type, extent, and estimated cost of development proposed to accommodate visitor use and to protect the resource, to include anticipated location of all major development [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), roads, and trails; and
  - (4) the specific locations and types of foot trail access to the Tall Trees Grove, of which one route shall, unless shown by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) to be inadvisable, principally traverse the east side of Redwood Creek through the essentially virgin forest, connecting with the roadhead on the west side of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) east of Orick.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “the”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–250, title I, § 104, Mar. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 170.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 79c(b)(1) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 101(a)(4) . . . of this amendment”, meaning section 101(a)(4) of Pub. L. 95–250, which amended section 79c(b)(1) of this title.

Section 79b of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 101(a)(2) of this amendment”, meaning section 101(a)(2) of Pub. L. 95–250, which amended subsecs. (a) and (b), and added subsec. (c), of section 79b of this title.

Section 79c(e) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 101(a)(6) . . . of this amendment”, meaning section 101(a)(6) of Pub. L. 95–250, which amended section 79c(e) of this title.

Section 79k(b) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 102(b) of this amendment”, meaning section 102(b) of Pub. L. 95–250, which enacted section 79k(b) of this title.

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), means Pub. L. 95–250, Mar. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 163, which, insofar as classified to the Code, enacted sections 79c–1 and 79k to 79q of this title, amended former section 1a–1 and sections 79b and 79c of this title, and enacted provisions set out and formerly set out as notes under section 79k of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Section 79l of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 102 of this amendment”, meaning section 103 of Pub. L. 95–250, which enacted section 79l of this title.

Section 79c(b)(2) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “section 101(a)(5) of this amendment”, meaning section 101(a)(5) of Pub. L. 95–250, which amended section 79c(b)(2) of this title.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of Pub. L. 90–545, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 931, which comprises this subchapter.

### 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.

### Reference to Secretary as Reference to Secretary of Department of the Interior; Exception

Reference to Secretary, unless otherwise indicated, as reference to Secretary of Department of the Interior, see section 109 of Pub. L. 95–250, set out as a note under section 79k of this title.