Before specific plans for use and development of water and related land resources are approved, including constructing improvements, diversions, roadways, crossings, channelizations, locks, canals, or other uses that change the character of a river or waterway or destroy its scenic value, the Secretary shall give full consideration and evaluation of the river as a scenic and wild resource.

Added by Acts 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 4, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1975, c. 612, § 1; Acts 1984, c. 734.

Formerly Art. 66C, § 763.