---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aaa–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aaa–5"
heading: "Minerals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aaa-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXII — Grand Island National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aaa–5. Minerals


Subject to valid existing rights, the lands within the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) are hereby withdrawn from location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws and from disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral leasing including all laws pertaining to geothermal leasing. Also subject to valid existing rights, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall not allow any mineral development on federally owned land within the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), except that common varieties of mineral materials, such as stone, and gravel, may be utilized only as authorized by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) to the extent necessary for construction and maintenance of roads and facilities within the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–292, § 6, May 17, 1990, 104 Stat. 188.)