To ensure the safety of recreational fishermen and other persons who use motor vehicles to access beaches adjacent to the Brigantine Wilderness Area in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey, by providing a narrow transition zone above the mean high tide line where motor vehicles can be safely driven and parked.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise the boundaries of a specified portion of the Brigantine Wilderness Area (in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, formerly known as the Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge) located on Long Beach Island in Ocean County, New Jersey, to provide a narrow transition zone between the mean high tide line and the wilderness boundaries to permit vehicles to safely access and park on the beach without inadvertently entering the wilderness area. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the Secretary's authority to prohibit or restrict public access to such area during the breeding season of the piping plover.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2686 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2686

 To ensure the safety of recreational fishermen and other persons who 
    use motor vehicles to access beaches adjacent to the Brigantine 
Wilderness Area in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New 
Jersey, by providing a narrow transition zone above the mean high tide 
       line where motor vehicles can be safely driven and parked.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 9, 2003

  Mr. Saxton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure the safety of recreational fishermen and other persons who 
    use motor vehicles to access beaches adjacent to the Brigantine 
Wilderness Area in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New 
Jersey, by providing a narrow transition zone above the mean high tide 
       line where motor vehicles can be safely driven and parked.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. MOTOR VEHICLE TRANSITION AREA, BRIGANTINE WILDERNESS AREA, 
              EDWIN B. FORSYTHE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, NEW JERSEY.

    (a) Finding.--Section 1(h) of Public Law 93-632 (88 Stat. 2153) 
designated the Brigantine Wilderness Area in the Edwin B. Forsythe 
National Wildlife Refuge (formerly known as the Brigantine National 
Wildlife Refuge), New Jersey, and the Secretary of the Interior was 
directed to prepare a legal description and map to accurately represent 
the boundaries of the wilderness area as so designated.
    (b) Revision of Boundary Required.--The Secretary of the Interior 
shall revise the boundaries of that portion of the Brigantine 
Wilderness Area located on Long Beach Island in Ocean County, New 
Jersey, to provide a narrow transition zone between the mean high tide 
line and the wilderness boundaries (but not less than 60 feet in width) 
to permit vehicles to safely access and park on the beach without 
inadvertently entering the wilderness area. The Secretary shall 
determine the mean high tide line for the area using information 
available from the State of New Jersey.
    (c) Continued Protection for Piping Plover.--Nothing in subsection 
(b) shall be construed to alter the authority of the Secretary of the 
Interior to prohibit or restrict public access to that portion of the 
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge and Brigantine Wilderness 
Area on Long Beach Island during the breeding season of the piping 
plover.
                                 <all>