---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460gg–10"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460gg–10"
heading: "Ranching, grazing, etc., as valid uses of area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460gg-10"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XCI — Hells Canyon National Recreation Area"
---

# §460gg–10. Ranching, grazing, etc., as valid uses of area


Ranching, grazing, farming, timber harvesting, and the occupation of homes and lands associated therewith, as they exist on December 31, 1975, are recognized as traditional and valid uses of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–199, § 13, Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1122.)