---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–41"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–41"
heading: "Cooperative management agreements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-41"
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 3 — cooperative management"
---

# §460nnn–41. Cooperative management agreements

- (a) **Cooperative efforts—** To further the purposes and objectives for which the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3) is designated, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may work with non-Federal landowners and other parties who voluntarily agree to participate in the cooperative management of Federal and non-[Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) in the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3).
- (b) **Agreements authorized—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may enter into a cooperative management agreement with any party to provide for the cooperative conservation and management of the Federal and non-[Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) subject to the agreement.
- (c) **Other participants—** With the consent of the landowners involved, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may permit permittees, special-use permit holders, other Federal and [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) agencies, and interested members of the public to participate in a cooperative management agreement as appropriate to achieve the resource or land use management objectives of the agreement.
- (d) **Tribal cultural site protection—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may enter into agreements with the Burns Paiute Tribe to protect cultural sites in the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3) of importance to the tribe.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title I, § 121, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1663.)