Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 460mmm. Findings and purpose
Statutory text
Findings
Congress finds that certain areas located in the Grand Valley in Mesa County, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah, should be protected and enhanced for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations. These areas include the following:
The areas making up the Black Ridge and Ruby Canyons of the Grand Valley and Rabbit Valley, which contain unique and valuable scenic, recreational, multiple use opportunities (including grazing), paleontological, natural, and wildlife components enhanced by the rural western setting of the area, provide extensive opportunities for recreational activities, and are publicly used for hiking, camping, and grazing, and are worthy of additional protection as a national conservation area.
The Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Study Area has wilderness value and offers unique geological, paleontological, scientific, and recreational resources.
Purpose
The purpose of this subchapter is to conserve, protect, and enhance for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations the unique and nationally important values of the public lands described in section 460mmm–2(b) of this title, including geological, cultural, paleontological, natural, scientific, recreational, environmental, biological, wilderness, wildlife education, and scenic resources of such public lands, by establishing the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area and the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness in the State of Colorado and the State of Utah.
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.
Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 2000
Pub. L. 106–353 § 2 · 114 Stat. 1374
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 460mmm
Pub. L. 106–353, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1374
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 106–353, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1374Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) Findings.— Congress finds that certain areas located in the Grand Valley in Mesa County, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah, should be protected and enhanced for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations. These areas include the following: (1) The areas making up the Black Ridge and Ruby Canyons of the Grand Valley and Rabbit Valley, which contain unique and valuable scenic, recreational, multiple use opportunities (including grazing), paleontological, natural, and wildlife components enhanced by the rural western setting of the area, provide extensive opportunities for recreational activities, and are publicly used for hiking, camping, and grazing, and are worthy of additional protection as a national conservation area. (2) The Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Study Area has wilderness value and offers unique geological, paleontological, scientific, and recreational resources. (b) Purpose.— The purpose of this Act is to conserve, protect, and enhance for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations the unique and nationally important values of the public lands described in section 4(b), including geological, cultural, paleontological, natural, scientific, recreational, environmental, biological, wilderness, wildlife education, and scenic resources of such public lands, by establishing the Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness in the State of Colorado and the State of Utah.Pub. L. 108–400 § 1(a) · 118 Stat. 2254
Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 460mmm(b)
Pub. L. 108–400 substituted “McInnis Canyons” for “Colorado Canyons”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–400 substituted “McInnis Canyons” for “Colorado Canyons”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Purpose.— The Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 460mmm et seq.) is amended in section 2(b) 16 USC 460mmm. by striking “Colorado Canyons” and inserting “McInnis Canyons”.Effective date note
Pub. L. 108–400, § 1(g), Oct. 30, 2004, 118 Stat. 2254, provided that: “This section [amending this section and sections 460mmm–1, 460mmm–2, and 460mmm–6 of this title, enacting provisions set out as a note under this section, and amending provisions set out as a note under this section] and the amendments made by this section take effect on January 1, 2005.”
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–400 substituted “McInnis Canyons” for “Colorado Canyons”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Pub. L. 108–400, § 1(f), , 118 Stat. 2254, provided that: “Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the ‘Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area’ shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area’.”
Effective Date of 2004 Amendment
Pub. L. 108–400, § 1(g), , 118 Stat. 2254, provided that: “This section [amending this section and sections 460mmm–1, 460mmm–2, and 460mmm–6 of this title, enacting provisions set out as a note under this section, and amending provisions set out as a note under this section] and the amendments made by this section take effect on .”
Short Title
Pub. L. 106–353, § 1, , 114 Stat. 1374, as amended by Pub. L. 108–400, § 1(e), , 118 Stat. 2254, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter and provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title] may be cited as the ‘McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 2000’.”
Credits
2000–2004 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 106–353, § 2, , 114 Stat. 1374; Pub. L. 108–400, § 1(a), , 118 Stat. 2254.)