---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460vv–17"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460vv–17"
heading: "Permits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460vv-17"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CVII — Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation and Wilderness Area"
---

# §460vv–17. Permits


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall cooperate with other Federal agencies, with [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) and local public agencies and bodies, and with private individuals and organizations in the issuance of permits for facilities, services, and recreational facilities in the Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation and [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A). In issuing such permits, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized and encouraged to consider local nonprofit entities and the private sector.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–499, § 19, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2499.)