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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§460nnn–41 Cooperative Management Agreements

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER CXXV — STEENS MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION AREA › Part A — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area › subpart 3 — cooperative management › § 460nnn–41

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can work with private landowners and others who volunteer to jointly manage federal and non‑federal lands inside the Cooperative Management and Protection Area. The Secretary can sign written agreements with any willing party to carry out shared conservation and land‑use work. With the landowners’ okay, permit holders, other federal or state agencies, and members of the public can join those agreements. The Secretary can also make agreements with the Burns Paiute Tribe to protect tribal cultural sites in the area.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460nnn–41

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(a)Cooperative efforts
To further the purposes and objectives for which the Cooperative Management and Protection Area is designated, the Secretary may work with non-Federal landowners and other parties who voluntarily agree to participate in the cooperative management of Federal and non-Federal lands in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area.
(b)Agreements authorized
The Secretary may enter into a cooperative management agreement with any party to provide for the cooperative conservation and management of the Federal and non-Federal lands subject to the agreement.
(c)Other participants
With the consent of the landowners involved, the Secretary may permit permittees, special-use permit holders, other Federal and State agencies, and interested members of the public to participate in a cooperative management agreement as appropriate to achieve the resource or land use management objectives of the agreement.
(d)Tribal cultural site protection
The Secretary may enter into agreements with the Burns Paiute Tribe to protect cultural sites in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area of importance to the tribe.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–41

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110