---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460lll–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460lll–1"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460lll-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXIII — Land Between the Lakes Protection"
---

# §460lll–1. Purposes


The purposes of this subchapter are—

- (1) to transfer without consideration administrative jurisdiction over the [Recreation Area](/usc/16/460lll.md?p=12) from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) so that the [Recreation Area](/usc/16/460lll.md?p=12) may be managed as a [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National Forest System;
- (2) to protect and manage the resources of the [Recreation Area](/usc/16/460lll.md?p=12) for optimum yield of outdoor recreation and environmental education through [multiple use](/usc/16/531.md?p=a) management by the Forest Service;
- (3) to authorize, research, test, and demonstrate innovative programs and cost-effective management of the [Recreation Area](/usc/16/460lll.md?p=12);
- (4) to authorize the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) to cooperate between and among the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), Federal agencies, private organizations, and corporations, and individuals, as appropriate, in the management of the [Recreation Area](/usc/16/460lll.md?p=12) and to help stimulate the development of the surrounding region and extend the beneficial results as widely as practicable; and
- (5) to provide for the smooth and equitable transfer of jurisdiction from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(e) [title V, § 503], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–231, 2681–311.)