---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460uu–32"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460uu–32"
heading: "Management; provisions applicable"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460uu-32"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CVI — El Malpais National Monument and Conservation Area"
  - "Part D — Wilderness"
---

# §460uu–32. Management; provisions applicable

- (a) Subject to valid existing rights, each [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated under this subchapter shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act [[16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.] governing [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated by that Act as [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13), except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to December 31, 1987.
- (b) Within the [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated by this subchapter, the grazing of livestock, where established prior to December 31, 1987, shall be permitted to continue subject to such reasonable regulations, policies, and practices as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) deems necessary, as long as such regulations, policies, and practices fully conform with and implement the intent of Congress regarding grazing in such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as such intent is expressed in the Wilderness Act [[16 U.S.C. 1131](/usc/16/1131.md) et seq.] and section 108 of Public Law 96–560 ([16 U.S.C. 1133](/usc/16/1133.md) note).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–225, title IV, § 402, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1542.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Wilderness Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 88–577, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1131 of this title and Tables.

The effective date of the Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (a), means Sept. 3, 1964, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 88–577, which enacted chapter 23 of this title.