---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460vv–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460vv–2"
heading: "Maps and descriptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460vv-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CVII — Winding Stair Mountain National Recreation and Wilderness Area"
---

# §460vv–2. Maps and descriptions


As soon as practicable after October 18, 1988, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture shall file the [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [section 460vv–1 of this title](/usc/16/460vv–1.md) and legal descriptions of each [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated by [section 460vv–1 of this title](/usc/16/460vv–1.md) with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the United States Senate. Each such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter; except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal descriptions and [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) may be made. Each such [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–499, § 4, Oct. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 2492.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.