---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460ooo–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460ooo–1"
heading: "Establishment of the Sonoita Valley Acquisition Planning District"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460ooo-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXVI — Las Cienegas National Conservation Area"
---

# §460ooo–1. Establishment of the Sonoita Valley Acquisition Planning District

- (a) **In general—** In order to provide for future [acquisitions](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of important conservation land within the Sonoita Valley region of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Arizona, there is hereby established the Sonoita Valley [Acquisition Planning District](/usc/16/460ooo.md?p=2).
- (b) **Areas included—** The [Acquisition Planning District](/usc/16/460ooo.md?p=2) shall consist of approximately 142,800 acres of land in the Arizona [counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) of Pima and Santa Cruz, including the [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2), as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Sonoita Valley [Acquisition Planning District](/usc/16/460ooo.md?p=2) and Las Cienegas National [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2)” and dated October 2, 2000.
- (c) **Map and legal description—** As soon as practicable after December 6, 2000, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) shall submit to Congress a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description of the [Acquisition Planning District](/usc/16/460ooo.md?p=2). In case of a conflict between the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [subsection (b)](#b) and the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description submitted by the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1), the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [subsection (b)](#b) shall control. The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may correct clerical and typographical errors in such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description. Copies of the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, and in the appropriate office of the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–538, § 2, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2563.)