Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 460mm. Establishment of conservation area
Statutory text
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.
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.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
Pub. L. 96–487 title IV § 401 · 94 Stat. 2371
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460mm
(Pub. L. 96–487, title IV, § 401, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2396.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–487, title IV, § 401, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2396.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 401. establishment of steese national conservation area (a) 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) 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.
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