---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460uu–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460uu–3"
heading: "Grazing permits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460uu-3"
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–3. Grazing permits


Where any lands included within the boundary of the monument on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in subsection[^1] [460uu(a)](/usc/16/460uu.md?p=a) of this title are legally occupied or utilized on December 31, 1987, for grazing purposes, pursuant to a lease, permit, or license which is—

- (a) for a fixed term of years issued or authorized by any department, establishment, or agency of the United States, and
- (b) scheduled for termination before December 31, 1997,

the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall allow the [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) holding such grazing privileges (or their heirs) to retain such grazing privileges until December 31, 1997, subject to such limitations, conditions, or regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may prescribe to insure proper range management. No grazing shall be permitted on lands within the boundaries of the monument on or after January 1, 1998.


## Footnotes

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

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–225, title I, § 104, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1540.)