---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410ff–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410ff–5"
heading: "Designation of wilderness areas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410ff-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–D — Channel Islands National Park"
---

# §410ff–5. Designation of wilderness areas


Within three complete fiscal years from March 5, 1980, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall review the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and shall report to the President, in accordance with [section 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d) of this title, his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for designation as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13). Any designation of any such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) shall be accomplished in accordance with [section 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–199, title II, § 206, Mar. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 77.)