---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 670m"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "670m"
heading: "Indian rights; State or Federal jurisdiction regulating Indian rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/670m"
units:
  - "Chapter 5C — Conservation Programs on Government Lands"
  - "Subchapter II — Conservation Programs on Public Lands"
---

# §670m. Indian rights; State or Federal jurisdiction regulating Indian rights


Nothing in this subchapter shall enlarge or diminish or in any way affect (1) the rights of Indians or [Indian tribes](/usc/16/544.md?p=g) to the use of water or natural resources or their rights to fish, trap, or hunt wildlife as secured by statute, agreement, treaty, Executive order, or court decree; or (2) existing [State](/usc/16/670.md?p=2) or Federal jurisdiction to regulate those rights either on or off reservations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–797, title II, § 207, as added Pub. L. 93–452, § 2, Oct. 18, 1974, 88 Stat. 1374; amended Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title III, § 312(b)(13), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1355.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2011—Pub. L. 112–81 inserted section catchline.