16 U.S.C. § 460mm — Establishment of conservation area
submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-487 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 101 words · no verdicts yet
This law creates the Steese National Conservation Area in Alaska. It protects federal land there for multiple uses and environmental quality. The area covers about 1,220,000 acres, valued for caribou range and Birch Creek.
In order to provide for the immediate and future protection of the lands in Federal ownership within the framework of a program of multiple use and sustained yield and for the maintenance of environmental quality, the Steese National Conservation Area is hereby established.
The Steese National Conservation Area shall include approximately one million two hundred twenty thousand acres of public lands, as generally depicted on the map entitled “Steese National Conservation Area—proposed”, and dated October 1978. Special values to be considered in planning and management of the area are: caribou range and Birch Creek.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–487, title IV, § 401, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2396.)
- 1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-487 · 94 Stat. 2396
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 96-487 on 1980-12-02.
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