---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3204"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3204"
heading: "Allowed uses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3204"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation"
  - "Subchapter VI — Administrative Provisions"
---

# §3204. Allowed uses

- (a) **Establishment and use of new facilities—** On all [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) where the [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) of [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) is permitted in accordance with the provisions of this Act or other applicable [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) and Federal law the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall permit, subject to reasonable regulation to insure compatibility, the continuance of [existing uses](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=3), and the future establishment, and use, of temporary campsites, tent platforms, shelters, and other temporary facilities and equipment directly and necessarily related to such activities. Such facilities and equipment shall be constructed, used, and maintained in a manner consistent with the protection of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in which they are located. All new facilities shall be constructed of materials which blend with, and are compatible with, the immediately surrounding landscape. Upon termination of such activities and uses (but not upon regular or seasonal cessation), such structures or facilities shall, upon written request, be removed from the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) by the permittee.
- (b) **Denial of proposed use or establishment—** Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may determine, after adequate notice, that the establishment and use of such new facilities or equipment would constitute a significant expansion of existing facilities or uses which would be detrimental to the purposes for which the affected [conservation system unit](/usc/16/3102.md?p=4) was established, including the [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) character of any [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within such [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), and may thereupon deny such proposed use or establishment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title XIII, § 1316, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2485.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 96–487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, known as the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.