---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–5"
heading: "Grazing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–Y — California Desert Lands Parks, Preserve, and Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Areas"
  - "Part A — Death Valley National Park"
---

# §410aaa–5. Grazing

- (a) **In general—** The privilege of grazing domestic livestock on lands within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall continue to be exercised at no more than the current level, subject to applicable laws and National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service regulations.
- (b) **Sale of property—** If a [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) holding a grazing permit referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) informs the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) that such permittee is willing to convey to the United States any base property with respect to which such permit was issued and to which such permittee holds title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall make the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of such base property a priority as compared with the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of other lands within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), provided agreement can be reached concerning the terms and conditions of such [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1). Any such base property which is located outside the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and acquired as a priority pursuant to this section shall be managed by the Federal agency responsible for the majority of the adjacent lands in accordance with the laws applicable to such adjacent lands.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title III, § 306, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4486.)