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[CITE: 16USC460nnn-23]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   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 2--management of federal lands
 
Sec. 460nnn-23. Land use authorities


(a) In general

    The Secretary shall allow only such uses of the Federal lands 
included in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area as the 
Secretary finds will further the purposes for which the Cooperative 
Management and Protection Area is established.

(b) Commercial timber

                           (1) Prohibition

        The Federal lands included in the Cooperative Management and 
    Protection Area shall not be made available for commercial timber 
    harvest.

                        (2) Limited exception

        The Secretary may authorize the removal of trees from Federal 
    lands in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area only if the 
    Secretary determines that the removal is clearly needed for purposes 
    of ecological restoration and maintenance or for public safety. 
    Except in the Wilderness Area and the wilderness study areas 
    referred to in section 460nnn-64(a) of this title, the Secretary may 
    authorize the sale of products resulting from the authorized removal 
    of trees under this paragraph.

(c) Juniper management

    The Secretary shall emphasize the restoration of the historic fire 
regime in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area and the 
resulting native vegetation communities through active management of 
Western Juniper on a landscape level. Management measures shall include 
the use of natural and prescribed burning.

(d) Hunting, fishing, and trapping

                          (1) Authorization

        The Secretary shall permit hunting, fishing, and trapping on 
    Federal lands included in the Cooperative Management and Protection 
    Area in accordance with applicable laws and regulations of the 
    United States and the State of Oregon.

                    (2) Area and time limitations

        After consultation with the Oregon Department of Fish and 
    Wildlife, the Secretary may designate zones where, and establish 
    periods when, hunting, trapping or fishing is prohibited on Federal 
    lands included in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area for 
    reasons of public safety, administration, or public use and 
    enjoyment.

(e) Grazing

                  (1) Continuation of existing law

        Except as otherwise provided in this section and part F of this 
    subchapter, the laws, regulations, and executive orders otherwise 
    applicable to the Bureau of Land Management in issuing and 
    administering grazing leases and permits on lands under its 
    jurisdiction shall apply in regard to the Federal lands included in 
    the Cooperative Management and Protection Area.

                 (2) Cancellation of certain permits

        The Secretary shall cancel that portion of the permitted grazing 
    on Federal lands in the Fish Creek/Big Indian, East Ridge, and South 
    Steens allotments located within the area designated as the ``no 
    livestock grazing area'' on the map referred to in section 460nnn-
    11(a) of this title. Upon cancellation, future grazing use in that 
    designated area is prohibited. The Secretary shall be responsible 
    for installing and maintaining any fencing required for resource 
    protection within the designated no livestock grazing area.

                       (3) Forage replacement

        Reallocation of available forage shall be made as follows:
            (A) O'Keefe pasture within the Miners Field allotment to 
        Stafford Ranches.
            (B) Fields Seeding and Bone Creek Pasture east of the county 
        road within the Miners Field allotment to Amy Ready.
            (C) Miners Field Pasture, Schouver Seeding and Bone Creek 
        Pasture west of the county road within the Miners Field 
        allotment to Roaring Springs Ranch.
            (D) 800 animal unit months within the Crows Nest allotment 
        to Lowther (Clemens) Ranch.

                    (4) Fencing and water systems

        The Secretary shall also construct fencing and develop water 
    systems as necessary to allow reasonable and efficient livestock use 
    of the forage resources referred to in paragraph (3).

(f) Prohibition on construction of facilities

    No new facilities may be constructed on Federal lands included in 
the Cooperative Management and Protection Area unless the Secretary 
determines that the structure--
        (1) will be minimal in nature;
        (2) is consistent with the purposes of this subchapter; and
        (3) is necessary--
            (A) for enhancing botanical, fish, wildlife, or watershed 
        conditions;
            (B) for public information, health, or safety;
            (C) for the management of livestock; or
            (D) for the management of recreation, but not for the 
        promotion of recreation.

(g) Withdrawal

    Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal lands and interests in 
lands included in the Cooperative Management and Protection Areas are 
hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal 
under the public land laws, except in the case of land exchanges if the 
Secretary determines that the exchange furthers the purpose and 
objectives specified in section 460nnn-12 of this title and so certifies 
to Congress.

(Pub. L. 106-399, title I, Sec. 113, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1661.)

                       References in Text

    The public land laws, referred to in subsec. (g), are classified 
generally to Title 43, Public Lands.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 460nnn-11, 460nnn-62, 
460nnn-91, 460nnn-101, 460nnn-104 of this title.
