---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–61"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–61"
heading: "Designation of Steens Mountain Wilderness Area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-61"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXV — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
  - "Part B — Steens Mountain Wilderness Area"
---

# §460nnn–61. Designation of Steens Mountain Wilderness Area


The [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) in the [Cooperative Management and Protection Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=3) depicted as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Steens Mountain [Wilderness Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=10)” and dated September 18, 2000, are hereby designated as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) and therefore as a component of the [National Wilderness Preservation System](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13). The [wilderness area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=10) shall be known as the Steens Mountain [Wilderness Area](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=10).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title II, § 201, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1666.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of section 201 of Pub. L. 106–399. Section 201 also enacted provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title.