§ 460mm. — Establishment of conservation area.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460mm]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XCVIII--STEESE NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA AND WHITE MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
Sec. 460mm. Establishment of conservation area
(a) In general
In order to provide for the immediate and future protection of the
lands in Federal ownership within the framework of a program of multiple
use and sustained yield and for the maintenance of environmental
quality, the Steese National Conservation Area is hereby established.
(b) Boundaries; special values
The Steese National Conservation Area shall include approximately
one million two hundred twenty thousand acres of public lands, as
generally depicted on the map entitled ``Steese National Conservation
Area--proposed'', and dated October 1978. Special values to be
considered in planning and management of the area are: caribou range and
Birch Creek.
(Pub. L. 96-487, title IV, Sec. 401, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2396.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 460mm-1 of this title.
