---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–12"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–12"
heading: "Purpose and objectives of Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-12"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXV — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
  - "Part A — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
  - "Subpart 1 — designation and purposes"
---

# §460nnn–12. Purpose and objectives of Cooperative Management and Protection Area

- (a) **Purpose—** The purpose of the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3) is to conserve, protect, and manage the long-term [ecological integrity](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=5) of Steens Mountain for future and present generations.
- (b) **Objectives—** To further the purpose specified in [subsection (a)](#a), and consistent with such purpose, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) shall manage the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3) for the benefit of present and future generations—
  - (1) to maintain and enhance cooperative and innovative management [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), programs and agreements between tribal, public, and private interests in the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3);
  - (2) to promote grazing, recreation, historic, and other uses that are sustainable;
  - (3) to conserve, protect and to ensure traditional access to cultural, gathering, religious, and archaeological sites by the Burns Paiute Tribe on [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) and to promote cooperation with private landowners;
  - (4) to ensure the conservation, protection, and improved management of the ecological, social, and economic environment of the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3), including geological, biological, wildlife, riparian, and scenic resources; and
  - (5) to promote and foster cooperation, communication, and understanding and to reduce conflict between Steens Mountain users and interests.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title I, § 102, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1658.)