---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–25"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–25"
heading: "Special use permits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-25"
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 2 — management of federal lands"
---

# §460nnn–25. Special use permits


The [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may renew a special recreational use permit applicable to lands included in the [Wilderness Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=10) to the extent that the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) determines that the permit is consistent with the Wilderness Act ([16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.). If renewal is not consistent with the Wilderness Act, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) shall seek other opportunities for the permit holder through modification of the permit to realize historic permit use to the extent that the use is consistent with the Wilderness Act and this subchapter, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title I, § 115, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1663.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.

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.