---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460jjj"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460jjj"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460jjj"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXI — Jemez National Recreational Area"
---

# §460jjj. Establishment

- (a) **In general—** In order to conserve, protect, and restore the recreational, ecological, cultural, religious, and wildlife resource values of the Jemez Mountains, there is hereby established the Jemez National Recreational [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”), to be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) of Agriculture (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1)”).
- (b) **Area included—** The recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be comprised of approximately 57,000 acres of lands and interests in lands within the Santa Fe National Forest as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Jemez National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)—Proposed” and dated September 1992. The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia. The [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may from time to time, in consultation with local tribal leaders, make minor revisions in the boundary of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) to promote management effectiveness and efficiency in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter.
- (c) **Map and description—** As soon as practicable after October 12, 1993, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) shall file a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) with the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate. Such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) may be made. Such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
- (d) **No additional lands—** No lands or interests therein outside of the boundaries of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) may be added to the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) without specific authorization by Congress.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–104, § 1, Oct. 12, 1993, 107 Stat. 1025; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(q), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4587.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–437 in first sentence struck out “Select” before “Committee on Indian Affairs”.