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§460nnn–42 Cooperative Efforts to Control Development and Encourage Conservation

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–42

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Development that changes the current character or use of land inside the Cooperative Management and Protection Area goes against the goals of this law. The Secretary may make nondevelopment or conservation easements with willing landowners and may give assistance, payments, and education to landowners who sign contracts to protect or improve ecological resources that benefit public lands. Nothing here changes property rights or overrides 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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Editorial Notes

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.