---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 544p"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "544p"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/544p"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter II — Scenic Areas"
---

# §544p. Severability

- (a) [^1] If any provision of sections [544](/usc/16/544.md) to 544p of this title or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), Indian tribe, entity, or circumstance is held invalid, neither the remainder of sections [544](/usc/16/544.md) to 544p of this title, nor the application of any provisions herein to other [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), [Indian tribes](/usc/16/544.md?p=g), entities, or circumstances, shall be affected thereby.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–663, § 18, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4302.)