---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 539l–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "539l–4"
heading: "Other administrative provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/539l-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §539l–4. Other administrative provisions

- (a) **Buffer zones—** The designation by this Act or by amendments made by this Act of [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and the Protection [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Colorado shall not create or imply the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around any [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or the Protection [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A). The fact that nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen or heard from within a [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or Protection [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to the boundary of the [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or the Protection [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).
- (b) **Rollins Pass Road—** If requested by one or more of the Colorado [Counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) of Grand, Gilpin, and Boulder, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall provide technical assistance and otherwise cooperate with respect to repairing the Rollins Pass road in those [counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) sufficiently to allow two-wheel-drive vehicles to travel between Colorado [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Highway 119 and U.S. Highway 40. If this road is repaired to such extent, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall close the motorized roads and trails on Forest Service land indicated on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Rollins Pass Road Reopening: Attendant Road and Trail Closures”, dated September 2001.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–216, § 7, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1060.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 107–216, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1055, which is classified principally to sections 539l to 539l–5 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 539l of this title and Tables.