---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460uu–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460uu–1"
heading: "Transfer of administrative control of lands and waters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460uu-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CVI — El Malpais National Monument and Conservation Area"
  - "Part A — El Malpais National Monument"
---

# §460uu–1. Transfer of administrative control of lands and waters


Lands and waters and interests therein within the boundaries of the monument, which as of the day prior to December 31, 1987, were administered by the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, are hereby transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) to be managed as part of the monument in accordance with this subchapter. The boundaries of the Cibola National Forest shall be adjusted accordingly.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–225, title I, § 102, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1539.)