Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§460n–3 Purposes and uses of area

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LXXII— - LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460n–3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must run Lake Mead National Recreation Area for public recreation, benefit, and use. The Secretary must try to keep and improve its recreation opportunities and protect its scenic, historic, scientific, and other important features while following any existing reservations, limits, and other allowed uses. The Secretary may allow certain activities if limits are set and they do not conflict with recreation or with parts withdrawn for reclamation. These include general recreation (bathing, boating, camping, picnicking), grazing, mineral leasing, and vacation cabin sites under Interior Department policies.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460n–3

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(a)Lake Mead National Recreation Area shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior for general purposes of public recreation, benefit, and use, and in a manner that will preserve, develop, and enhance, so far as practicable, the recreation potential, and in a manner that will preserve the scenic, historic, scientific, and other important features of the area, consistently with applicable reservations and limitations relating to such area and with other authorized uses of the lands and properties within such area.

(b)In carrying out the functions prescribed by this subchapter, in addition to other related activities that may be permitted hereunder, the Secretary may provide for the following activities, subject to such limitations, conditions, or regulations as he may prescribe, and to such extent as will not be inconsistent with either the recreational use or the primary use of that portion of the area heretofore withdrawn for reclamation purposes:

(1)General recreation use, such as bathing, boating, camping, and picnicking;

(2)Grazing;

(3)Mineral leasing;

(4)Vacation cabin site use, in accordance with existing policies of the Department of the Interior relating to such use, or as such policies may be revised hereafter by the Secretary.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460n–3

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73