---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460uu–11"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460uu–11"
heading: "Designation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460uu-11"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CVI — El Malpais National Monument and Conservation Area"
  - "Part B — Masau Trail"
---

# §460uu–11. Designation


In order to provide for public appreciation, education, understanding, and enjoyment of certain nationally significant sites of antiquity in New Mexico and eastern Arizona which are accessible by public road,[^1] the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), acting through the Director of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, with the concurrence of the agency having jurisdiction over such roads, is authorized to designate, by publication of a description thereof in the Federal Register, a vehicular tour route along existing public roads linking prehistoric and historic cultural sites in New Mexico and eastern Arizona. Such a route shall be known as the Masau Trail (hereinafter referred to as the “trail”).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “roads,”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–225, title II, § 201, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1540.)