---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460v"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460v"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460v"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXX — Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area"
---

# §460v. Establishment


In order to provide, in furtherance of the purposes of the Colorado River storage [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), for the public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of the Flaming Gorge Reservoir and surrounding lands in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of Utah and Wyoming and the conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment of such lands and waters, there is hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the Flaming Gorge National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of Utah and Wyoming (hereinafter referred to as the “recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”). The boundaries of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be those shown on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Proposed Flaming Gorge National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A),” which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–540, § 1, Oct. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 904.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Dutch John Federal Property Disposition and Assistance

Pub. L. 105–326, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 3040, as amended by Pub. L. 106–176, title III, § 303, Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 32, related to disposition of certain Federal properties located in Dutch John, Utah, and to assistance to local government in interim delivery of basic services to Dutch John community.