---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410hh–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410hh–5"
heading: "Withdrawal of lands from mining and mineral leasing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410hh-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–F — Alaskan National Parks"
---

# §410hh–5. Withdrawal of lands from mining and mineral leasing


Subject to valid existing rights, and except as explicitly provided otherwise in this Act, the [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) within [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System established or expanded by or pursuant to this Act are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation or disposal under the public land laws, including location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws, disposition under the mineral leasing laws, and from future selections by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Alaska and [Native Corporations](/usc/16/3102.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–487, title II, § 206, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2384.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, 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.