---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–2"
heading: "Valid existing rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXV — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
---

# §460nnn–2. Valid existing rights


Nothing in this subchapter shall effect[^1] any valid existing right.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “affect”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, § 4, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1658.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 106–399, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1655, known as the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 460nnn of this title and Tables.