---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460ccc–9"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460ccc–9"
heading: "No buffer zones"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460ccc-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXIV — Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area"
---

# §460ccc–9. No buffer zones


The Congress does not intend for the establishment of the [conservation area](/usc/16/460ccc.md?p=a) to lead to the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around the [conservation area](/usc/16/460ccc.md?p=a). The fact that there may be activities or uses on lands outside the [conservation area](/usc/16/460ccc.md?p=a) that would not be permitted in the [conservation area](/usc/16/460ccc.md?p=a) shall not preclude such activities or uses on such lands up to the boundary of the [conservation area](/usc/16/460ccc.md?p=a) to the extent consistent with other applicable law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–621, § 11, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3345.)