---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7201"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7201"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7201"
units:
  - "Chapter 91 — National Landscape Conservation System"
---

# §7201. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Secretary—** The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
- (2) **System—** The term “system” means the National Landscape Conservation System established by [section 7202(a) of this title](/usc/16/7202.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title II, § 2001, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1094.)