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[CITE: 16USC460ooo-4]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
        SUBCHAPTER CXXVI--LAS CIENEGAS NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA
 
Sec. 460ooo-4. Management of the Las Cienegas National 
        Conservation Area
        

(a) In general

    The Secretary shall manage the Conservation Area in a manner that 
conserves, protects, and enhances its resources and values, including 
the resources and values specified in section 460ooo-3(a) of this title, 
pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and other applicable law, including this 
subchapter.

(b) Uses

    The Secretary shall allow only such uses of the Conservation Area as 
the Secretary finds will further the purposes for which the Conservation 
Area is established as set forth in section 460ooo-3(a) of this title.

(c) Grazing

    The Secretary of the Interior shall permit grazing subject to all 
applicable laws, regulations, and Executive orders consistent with the 
purposes of this subchapter.

(d) Motorized vehicles

    Except where needed for administrative purposes or to respond to an 
emergency, use of motorized vehicles on public lands in the Conservation 
Area shall be allowed only--
        (1) before the effective date of a management plan prepared 
    pursuant to section 460ooo-5 of this title, on roads and trails 
    designated for use of motorized vehicles in the management plan that 
    applies on December 6, 2000; and
        (2) after the effective date of a management plan prepared 
    pursuant to section 460ooo-5 of this title, on roads and trails 
    designated for use of motor vehicles in that management plan.

(e) Military airspace

    Prior to December 6, 2000, the Federal Aviation Administration 
approved restricted military airspace (Areas 2303A and 2303B) which 
covers portions of the Conservation Area. Designation of the 
Conservation Area shall not impact or impose any altitude, flight, or 
other airspace restrictions on current or future military operations or 
missions. Should the military require additional or modified airspace in 
the future, the Congress does not intend for the designation of the 
Conservation Area to impede the military from petitioning the Federal 
Aviation Administration to change or expand existing restricted military 
airspace.

(f) Access to State and private lands

    Nothing in this subchapter shall affect valid existing rights-of-way 
within the Conservation Area. The Secretary shall provide reasonable 
access to nonfederally owned lands or interest in lands within the 
boundaries of the Conservation Area.

(g) Hunting

    Hunting shall be allowed within the Conservation Area in accordance 
with applicable laws and regulations of the United States and the State 
of Arizona, except that the Secretary, after consultation with the 
Arizona State wildlife management agency, may issue regulations 
designating zones where and establishing periods when no hunting shall 
be permitted for reasons of public safety, administration, or public use 
and enjoyment.

(h) Preventative measures

    Nothing in this subchapter shall preclude such measures as the 
Secretary determines necessary to prevent devastating fire or 
infestation of insects or disease within the Conservation Area.

(i) No buffer zones

    The establishment of the Conservation Area shall not lead to the 
creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around the 
Conservation Area. The fact that there may be activities or uses on 
lands outside the Conservation Area that would not be permitted in the 
Conservation Area shall not preclude such activities or uses on such 
lands up to the boundary of the Conservation Area consistent with other 
applicable laws.

(j) Withdrawals

    Subject to valid existing rights all Federal lands within the 
Conservation Area and all lands and interest therein which are hereafter 
acquired by the United States are hereby withdrawn from all forms of 
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws and from 
location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from operation of 
the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws and all amendments 
thereto.

(Pub. L. 106-538, Sec. 5, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2565.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, referred to in 
subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 94-579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, as 
amended, which is classified principally to chapter 35 (Sec. 1701 et 
seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of Title 43 
and Tables.
    The public land laws, referred to in subsec. (j), are classified 
generally to Title 43, Public Lands.
    The mining laws and the mineral leasing laws, referred to in subsec. 
(j), are classified generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
    Geothermal leasing laws, referred to in subsec. (j), are classified 
principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of Title 30, Mineral Lands 
and Mining.
