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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§460jjj Establishment

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER CXXI— - JEMEZ NATIONAL RECREATIONAL AREA › § 460jjj

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the Jemez National Recreational Area to protect and restore the Jemez Mountains’ recreational, ecological, cultural, religious, and wildlife values. The Secretary of Agriculture must manage the area. The area covers about 57,000 acres inside the Santa Fe National Forest, shown on a map dated September 1992 that is on file at the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service in Washington, D.C. The Secretary may make small boundary changes after talking with local tribal leaders to help manage the area. As soon as possible after October 12, 1993, the Secretary must file the map and a legal description with the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and on Indian Affairs; those filings have the same legal effect as if written into the law, though clerical errors may be fixed. No land outside the shown boundaries may be added unless Congress specifically allows it.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460jjj

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In order to conserve, protect, and restore the recreational, ecological, cultural, religious, and wildlife resource values of the Jemez Mountains, there is hereby established the Jemez National Recreational Area (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “recreation area”), to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”).
(b)The recreation area shall be comprised of approximately 57,000 acres of lands and interests in lands within the Santa Fe National Forest as generally depicted on the map entitled “Jemez National Recreation Area—Proposed” and dated September 1992. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia. The Secretary may from time to time, in consultation with local tribal leaders, make minor revisions in the boundary of the recreation area to promote management effectiveness and efficiency in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter.
(c)As soon as practicable after October 12, 1993, the Secretary shall file a map and legal description of the recreation area with the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate. Such map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may be made. Such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
(d)No lands or interests therein outside of the boundaries of the recreation area may be added to the recreation area without specific authorization by Congress.

Legislative History

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Amendments

1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–437 in first sentence struck out “Select” before “Committee on Indian Affairs”.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460jjj

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73