Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§460gg–7 Rules and Regulations

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XCI — HELLS CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460gg–7

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must make and can update rules needed to carry out this part of the law. The rules will cover how privately owned land inside the recreation area can be used or built on. Those rules can vary by parcel and can be enforced using the powers given in section 460gg–6. The rules will also protect historic, archaeological, and fossil sites; control use of motorized or mechanical gear that travels on or changes the surface of government land; limit and manage boats and other river craft (and say that using boats on the Snake River is allowed); and set standards for using, managing, and disposing of natural resources on government land, including selective timber cutting, mining, grazing, and continuing compatible existing uses.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460gg–7

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The Secretary shall promulgate, and may amend, such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to accomplish the purposes of this subchapter. Such rules and regulations shall include, but are not limited to—

(a)standards for the use and development of privately owned property within the recreation area, which rules or regulations the Secretary may, to the extent he deems advisable, implement with the authorities delegated to him in section 460gg–6 of this title, and which may differ among the various parcels of land within the recreation area;

(b)standards and guidelines to insure the full protection and preservation of the historic, archeological, and paleontological resources in the recreation area;

(c)provision for the control of the use of motorized and mechanical equipment for transportation over, or alteration of, the surface of any Federal land within the recreation area;

(d)provision for the control of the use and number of motorized and nonmotorized river craft: Provided, That the use of such craft is hereby recognized as a valid use of the Snake River within the recreation area; and

(e)standards for such management, utilization, and disposal of natural resources on federally owned lands, including but not limited to, timber harvesting by selective cutting, mining, and grazing and the continuation of such existing uses and developments as are compatible with the provisions of this subchapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460gg–7

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102