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[CITE: 16USC460ccc-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
       SUBCHAPTER CXIV--RED ROCK CANYON NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA
 
Sec. 460ccc-1. Establishment


(a) In general

    (1) In order to conserve, protect, and enhance for the benefit and 
enjoyment of present and future generations the area in southern Nevada 
containing and surrounding the Red Rock Canyon and the unique and 
nationally important geologic, archeological, ecological, cultural, 
scenic, scientific, wildlife, riparian, wilderness, endangered species, 
and recreation resources of the public lands therein contained, there is 
established the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
    (2) The conservation area shall consist of approximately 195,780 
acres as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Red Rock Canyon 
National Conservation Area Administrative Boundary Modification'', dated 
August 8, 1996.
    (3) The map referred to in paragraph (2) shall be on file and 
available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the Bureau of 
Land Management, Department of the Interior.

(b) Legal description

    (1) As soon as practicable after November 16, 1990, the Secretary 
shall file a legal description of the conservation area established by 
subsection (a) of this section with the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and 
Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives, and such 
legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in 
this subchapter, except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
typographic errors in \1\ legal description.
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    (2) The legal description described in paragraph (1) shall be on 
file and available for public inspection in the office of the Director 
of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.

(c) Discrepancies

    In case of any discrepancy between or among the map described in 
subsection (a) of this section, the amount of acreage stated in 
subsection (a) of this section, or the legal description filed by the 
Secretary pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the map described 
in subsection (a) of this section shall control any question concerning 
the boundaries of the conservation area.

(Pub. L. 101-621, Sec. 3, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3342; Pub. L. 103-
450, Sec. 1, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4766; Pub. L. 105-263, Sec. 8, Oct. 
19, 1998, 112 Stat. 2349.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 105-263 amended par. (2) generally. 
Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: ``The conservation area 
shall consist of approximately 195,610 acres as generally depicted on a 
map entitled `Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area--Proposed 
Expansion', numbered NV-RRCNCA-002, and dated July 1994.''
    1994--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 103-450 amended par. (2) generally. 
Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: ``The conservation area 
shall consist of approximately 83,100 acres of generally depicted on a 
map entitled `Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area--Proposed' 
numbered NV-RRC-NCA-001, and dated June, 1990.''

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House 
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.


                      Potential Conservation Lands

    Pub. L. 103-450, Sec. 3, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4767, as amended by 
Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(3) [title I, Sec. 144(a)], Nov. 
29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A-171, provided that:
    ``(a) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the lands 
identified in subsection (b) are hereby withdrawn from all forms of 
entry under the public land laws, including the mining laws, and from 
operation of the mineral [see 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq., 271 et seq., and 
281 et seq.] and geothermal leasing laws: Provided, That nothing in this 
subsection shall limit the issuance of any necessary licenses or public 
land rights-of-way for any hydroelectric project involving such lands.
    ``(b) Lands.--The lands referred to in subsection (a) are the 
approximately 1,280 acres of public lands as generally depicted on the 
map entitled `Potential Conservation Lands: Possible Hydroelectric 
Project' dated July, 1994.
    ``(c) Future Status.--(1) Effective on May 2, 2000, the lands 
described in subsection (b) shall be added to the Red Rock Canyon 
National Conservation Area unless before such effective date all 
necessary licenses and public land rights-of-way have been issued for a 
hydroelectric project involving some or all of such lands.
    ``(2) For purposes of section 10(b) of the Red Rock Canyon National 
Conservation Area Establishment Act of 1990 [16 U.S.C. 460ccc-8(b)], as 
amended by this Act, the date on which the lands identified in 
subsection (b) of this section are added to the Red Rock Canyon National 
Conservation Area shall be deemed to be the date of enactment of an Act 
adding such lands to the conservation area.''
    [Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(3) [title I, Sec. 144(b)], 
Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A-171, provided that: ``The amendment 
made by subsection (a) [amending section 3 of Pub. L. 103-450, set out 
above] takes effect on November 1, 1999.'']

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 460ccc, 460ccc-2 of this 
title.
