§460nnn–42 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

§460nnn–42 Cooperative efforts to control development and encourage conservation

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER CXXV— - STEENS MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION AREA › Part Part A— - Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area › Subpart subpart 3— - cooperative management › § 460nnn–42

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Development that changes how land is used in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area does not match the purpose. The Secretary can make easements and provide technical help and payments to willing landowners who contract to protect or improve ecological resources, without changing property rights or State law.

Title 16, §460nnn–42

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(a)Development on public and private lands within the boundaries of the Cooperative Management and Protection Area which is different from the current character and uses of the lands is inconsistent with the purposes of this subchapter.

(b)The Secretary may enter into a nondevelopment easement or conservation easement with willing landowners to further the purposes of this subchapter.

(c)The Secretary may provide technical assistance, cost-share payments, incentive payments, and education to a private landowner in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area who enters into a contract with the Secretary to protect or enhance ecological resources on the private land covered by the contract if those protections or enhancements benefit public lands.

(d)Nothing in this subchapter is intended to affect rights or interests in real property or supersede State law.

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References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 106–399, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1655, known as the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 460nnn of this title and Tables.