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

# §460ooo. Definitions


For the purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions apply:

- (1) **Conservation Area—** The term “[Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2)” means the Las Cienegas National [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) established by [section 460ooo–3(a)](/usc/16/460ooo–3.md?p=a) of this title.
- (2) **Acquisition Planning District—** The term “Acquisition Planning District” means the Sonoita Valley Acquisition Planning District established by [section 460ooo–1(a)](/usc/16/460ooo–1.md?p=a) of this title.
- (3) **Management plan—** The term “[management plan](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=6)” means the [management plan](/usc/16/460nnn.md?p=6) for the [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2).
- (4) **Public lands—** The term “public lands” has the meaning given the term in [section 1702(e) of title 43](/usc/43/1702.md?p=e), except that such term shall not include interest in lands not owned by the United States.
- (5) **Secretary—** The term “[Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1)” means the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) of the Interior.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–538, § 1, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2563.)