---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–53"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–53"
heading: "Granite Mountains Natural Reserve"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-53"
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 C — Mojave National Preserve"
---

# §410aaa–53. Granite Mountains Natural Reserve

- (a) **Establishment—** There is hereby designated the Granite Mountains Natural Reserve within the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) comprising approximately nine thousand acres as generally depicted on a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Mojave National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Boundary and [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)—Proposed 6”, dated May 1991.
- (b) **Cooperative management agreement—** On October 31, 1994, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall enter into a cooperative management agreement with the University of California for the purposes of managing the lands within the Granite Mountains Natural Reserve. Such cooperative agreement shall ensure continuation of arid lands research and educational activities of the University of California, consistent with the provisions of this part and laws generally applicable to [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title V, § 513, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4494.)