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[CITE: 16USC460nnn-42]

 
                         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-42. Cooperative efforts to control development and 
        encourage conservation
        

(a) Policy

    Development on public and private lands within the boundaries of the 
Cooperative Management and Protection Area which is different from the 
current character and uses of the lands is inconsistent with the 
purposes of this subchapter.

(b) Use of nondevelopment and conservation easements

    The Secretary may enter into a nondevelopment easement or 
conservation easement with willing landowners to further the purposes of 
this subchapter.

(c) Conservation incentive payments

    The Secretary may provide technical assistance, cost-share payments, 
incentive payments, and education to a private landowner in the 
Cooperative Management and Protection Area who enters into a contract 
with the Secretary to protect or enhance ecological resources on the 
private land covered by the contract if those protections or 
enhancements benefit public lands.

(d) Relation to property rights and State and local law

    Nothing in this subchapter is intended to affect rights or interests 
in real property or supersede State law.

(Pub. L. 106-399, title I, Sec. 122, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1664.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 460nnn-24, 460nnn-122 of 
this title.
