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

# §460r–4. Administration, protection, and development of area


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. 89–438, § 5, May 31, 1966, 80 Stat. 191.)