---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460dd–8"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460dd–8"
heading: "Report to President"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460dd-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXVIII — Glen Canyon National Recreation Area"
---

# §460dd–8. Report to President


Within two years from October 27, 1972, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall report to the President, in accordance with subsections 3(c) and 3(d) of the Wilderness Act [[16 U.S.C. 1132(c)](/usc/16/1132.md?p=c) and (d)], his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for preservation as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13), and any designation of any such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) shall be in accordance with said Wilderness Act [[16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.].


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–593, § 9, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1313.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.