---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 539l–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "539l–3"
heading: "Loop trail study; authorization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/539l-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §539l–3. Loop trail study; authorization

- (a) **Study—** Not later than three years after funds are first made available for this purpose, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), in consultation with interested parties, shall complete a study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing, consistent with the purpose set forth in [section 539l(a)(2)](/usc/16/539l.md?p=a-2) of this title, a loop trail for mechanized and other nonmotorized recreation connecting the trail designated as “Rogers Pass” and the trail designated as “Rollins Pass Road”.
- (b) **Establishment—** If the results of the study required by [subsection (a)](#a) indicate that establishment of such a loop trail would be suitable and feasible, consistent with the purpose set forth in [section 539l(a)(2)](/usc/16/539l.md?p=a-2) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall establish the loop trail in a manner consistent with that purpose.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–216, § 6, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1060.)