---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460r–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460r–3"
heading: "Outdoor recreation facilities development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460r-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXVI — Mount Rogers National Recreation Area"
---

# §460r–3. Outdoor recreation facilities development

- (a) **Accelerated program—** After the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) [acquires](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) an acreage within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated pursuant to [section 460r–1 of this title](/usc/16/460r–1.md) that is in his opinion efficiently administrable to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, he shall institute an accelerated program of development of facilities for outdoor recreation. Said facilities shall be so devised to [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) advantage of the topography and geographical location of the lands in relation to the growing recreation needs of the people of the United States.
- (b) **Cooperation with Federal and State agencies—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may cooperate with all Federal and [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) authorities and agencies that have programs which will hasten completion of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and render services which will aid him in evaluating and effectuating the establishment of adequate summer and winter outdoor recreation facilities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–438, § 4, May 31, 1966, 80 Stat. 191.)