Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§460zz Findings and Purposes

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER CXI — MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL RIVER AND RECREATION AREA › Part A — Mississippi National River and Recreation Area › § 460zz

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Protect and improve the Mississippi River Corridor in the Saint Paul‑Minneapolis Metropolitan Area. The river corridor is important to the whole country for its history, recreation, scenery, culture, natural life, economy, and science. The nation benefits when these resources are kept safe and available. State and local plans already exist and can be the base for working with federal agencies. Right now federal programs are not well coordinated or funded with state and local efforts, and working together can achieve better protection and use of the river. The law’s goals are to protect and enhance the land and water values of the corridor, encourage better coordination of all government programs that affect it, and give Minnesota and local governments a management framework to make and carry out joined land-and-water plans so public and private development is orderly and fits these goals.

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Title 16, §460zz

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(a)Findings

The Congress finds that:

(1)The Mississippi River Corridor within the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Metropolitan Area represents a nationally significant historical, recreational, scenic, cultural, natural, economic, and scientific resource.

(2)There is a national interest in the preservation, protection and enhancement of these resources for the benefit of the people of the United States.

(3)State and local planning efforts along the River Corridor provide a unique foundation for coordinating Federal, State, and local planning and management processes.

(4)Existing Federal agency programs lack sufficient coordination and financial participation with State and local planning and regulatory authorities to provide for adequate and comprehensive resource management and economic development consistent with the protection of the Mississippi River Corridor’s nationally significant resources, and the public use and enjoyment of the area.

(5)The preservation, enhancement, enjoyment, and utilization of the nationally significant resources of the Mississippi River Corridor can be accomplished by a cooperative Federal, State, and local comprehensive planning and management effort.

(b)Purposes

The purposes of this part are:

(1)To protect, preserve and enhance the significant values of the waters and land of the Mississippi River Corridor within the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Metropolitan Area.

(2)To encourage adequate coordination of all governmental programs affecting the land and water resources of the Mississippi River Corridor.

(3)To provide a management framework to assist the State of Minnesota and its units of local government in the development and implementation of integrated resource management programs for the Mississippi River Corridor in order to assure orderly public and private development in the area consistent with the findings of this part.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460zz

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110