Pub. L. 91-611, tit. II, sec. 231

Sec. 231. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized to cooperate with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, political subdivisions thereof, appropriate agencies and instrumentalities thereof, the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, and the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Department of the Interior, with a view to determining the feasibility and desirability of establishing a national recreation area generally encompassing in whole or in part the Kentucky River navigation project and reservoir projects in the upper Kentucky and Licking River Basins and adjacent and intervening areas, and to submit to the Congress reports and recommendations with respect to appropriate participation by the Department of the Army in carrying out such recommendations. (b) Such studies shall review the reports of the Chief of Engineers contained in House Document 423, Eighty-seventh Congress, and the investigation authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1936, Public Law 783, Seventy-fourth Congress, and other appropriate reports, and shall consider plans to meet the needs of the Commonwealth for improvement of navigation facilities, outdoor recreational facilities, enhancement and conservation of fish and wildlife, and other measures for environnmental enhancement. (c) Such plans which may be recommended to the Congress shall be harmonious components of overall development plans being formulated by the Commonwealth and shall be fully coordinated with all interested Federal agencies.