---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460p–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460p–4"
heading: "Administration, protection, and development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460p-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIV — Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area"
---

# §460p–4. Administration, protection, and development


The administration, protection, and development of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to national forests, in such manner as in his judgment will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation benefits; (2) conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of natural resources as in his judgment will promote, or is compatible with, and does not significantly impair the purposes for which the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) is established.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–207, § 5, Sept. 28, 1965, 79 Stat. 844.)