---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3169"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3169"
heading: "Valid existing right of access"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3169"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation"
  - "Subchapter IV — Transportation and Utility Systems in and Across, and Access into, Conservation System Units"
---

# §3169. Valid existing right of access


Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to adversely affect any valid existing right of access.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title XI, § 1109, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2464.)