---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460ppp–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460ppp–5"
heading: "No buffer zones"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460ppp-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXVII — Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area"
---

# §460ppp–5. No buffer zones


The Congress does not intend for the establishment of the [conservation area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) to lead to the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around the [conservation area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2). The fact that there may be activities or uses on lands outside the [conservation area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) that would not be permitted in the [conservation area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) shall not preclude such activities or uses on such lands up to the boundary of the [conservation area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) consistent with other applicable laws.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(4) [div. B, title I, § 125 [§ 7]], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–229, 2763A–356.)