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

# §460y. Establishment; boundaries


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)”) is hereby authorized and directed, after compliance with sections [460y–2](/usc/16/460y–2.md) and [460y–3](/usc/16/460y–3.md) of this title, to establish, within the boundaries described in [section 460y–8 of this title](/usc/16/460y–8.md), the King Range National Conservation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California (hereinafter referred to as the “[Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”), and to consolidate and manage the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) with the purpose of conserving and developing, for the use and benefit of the people of the United States, the lands and other resources therein under a program of multiple usage and of sustained yield.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–476, § 1, Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1067.)