---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460y–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460y–3"
heading: "Procedure for establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460y-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXIII — King Range National Conservation Area"
---

# §460y–3. Procedure for establishment


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall establish the [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) after a period of at least ninety calendar days from and after the date that he has (1) submitted copies of the program required by [section 460y–2 of this title](/usc/16/460y–2.md) to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Governor of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California, and the governing body of the county or [counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) in which the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) is located and (2) published a notice of intention to establish the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the Federal Register and in at least two newspapers which circulate generally within the [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–476, § 4, Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1068.)