---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aa–10"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aa–10"
heading: "Land surface protection; regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aa-10"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXV — Sawtooth National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aa–10. Land surface protection; regulations


The Congress hereby recognizes and declares the need to [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) action to regulate the use of, and protect the surface values of, the [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) in the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), and directs that rules and regulations necessary to carry out this section shall be promulgated and issued by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture after consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior. Such regulations shall include, when deemed necessary, provisions for control of the use of motorized and mechanical equipment for transportation over, or alteration of, the surface of such [Federal land](/usc/16/3102.md?p=2) in connection with any authorized activities on such land, including but not limited to mineral prospecting, exploration, or development operations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–400, § 11, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 614.)