---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460yyy–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460yyy–1"
heading: "Establishment of the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460yyy-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXXVI — Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area"
---

# §460yyy–1. Establishment of the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area

- (a) **Establishment; purposes—** There is established the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) in Lincoln County, New Mexico, to protect, conserve, and enhance the unique and nationally important historic, cultural, scientific, archaeological, natural, and educational subterranean cave resources of the Fort Stanton-Snowy River cave system.
- (b) **Area included—** The [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) shall include the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) within the boundaries depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2)” and dated December 15, 2008.
- (c) **Map and legal description—**
  - (1) **In general—** As soon as practicable after March 30, 2009, the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) shall submit to Congress a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description of the [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2).
  - (2) **Effect—** The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description of the [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that the [Secretary](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=1) may correct any minor errors in the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description.
  - (3) **Public availability—** The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description of the [Conservation Area](/usc/16/460iii–1.md?p=2) shall be available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the Bureau of Land Management.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title II, § 2202, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1099.)