---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 29.110"
title: "50"
number: "29.110"
heading: "What are the purposes of the Service's operating standards?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/29.110"
---

# §29.110. What are the purposes of the Service's operating standards?


The purposes are to:

- (a) Protect Service-administered lands and waters, and refuge resources; wildlife-dependent visitor uses and experiences; and visitor and employee health and safety; and
- (b) **Ensure use of technologically feasible, least damaging methods.** The operating standards give us and the operator flexibility to consider using alternative methods, equipment, materials design, and conduct of operations.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 81 FR 79971, Nov. 14, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 460k, 664, 668dd, 685, 690d, 715i, 725, 3161; 30 U.S.C. 185; 31 U.S.C. 3711, 9701; 40 U.S.C. 319; 43 U.S.C. 315a; 113 Stat. 1501A-140.

### Source

Source: 31 FR 16026, Dec. 15, 1966, unless otherwise noted.