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[CITE: 16USC460nnn-41]

 
                         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 3--cooperative management
 
Sec. 460nnn-41. Cooperative management agreements


(a) Cooperative efforts

    To further the purposes and objectives for which the Cooperative 
Management and Protection Area is designated, the Secretary may work 
with non-Federal landowners and other parties who voluntarily agree to 
participate in the cooperative management of Federal and non-Federal 
lands in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area.

(b) Agreements authorized

    The Secretary may enter into a cooperative management agreement with 
any party to provide for the cooperative conservation and management of 
the Federal and non-Federal lands subject to the agreement.

(c) Other participants

    With the consent of the landowners involved, the Secretary may 
permit permittees, special-use permit holders, other Federal and State 
agencies, and interested members of the public to participate in a 
cooperative management agreement as appropriate to achieve the resource 
or land use management objectives of the agreement.

(d) Tribal cultural site protection

    The Secretary may enter into agreements with the Burns Paiute Tribe 
to protect cultural sites in the Cooperative Management and Protection 
Area of importance to the tribe.

(Pub. L. 106-399, title I, Sec. 121, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1663.)
