---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460ggg–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460ggg–3"
heading: "Maps and legal descriptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460ggg-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXVIII — Ed Jenkins National Recreation Area and Coosa Bald National Scenic Area"
---

# §460ggg–3. Maps and legal descriptions


As soon as practicable after December 11, 1991, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture shall file a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and a legal description of each [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated by this subchapter with the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and with the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate. Each such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in each such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–217, § 5, Dec. 11, 1991, 105 Stat. 1669; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(d)(25), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” after “Committee on”.