2019 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation
Chapter 1 - National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
Subchapter CXXV - Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area
Part A - Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area
Subpart 3 - Cooperative Management
Sec. 460nnn-42 - Cooperative efforts to control development and encourage conservation

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Citation 16 U.S.C. § 460nnn-42 (2019)
Section Name §460nnn–42. Cooperative efforts to control development and encourage conservation
Section Text (a) Policy

Development on public and private lands within the boundaries of the Cooperative Management and Protection Area which is different from the current character and uses of the lands is inconsistent with the purposes of this subchapter.

(b) Use of nondevelopment and conservation easements

The Secretary may enter into a nondevelopment easement or conservation easement with willing landowners to further the purposes of this subchapter.

(c) Conservation incentive payments

The Secretary may provide technical assistance, cost-share payments, incentive payments, and education to a private landowner in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area who enters into a contract with the Secretary to protect or enhance ecological resources on the private land covered by the contract if those protections or enhancements benefit public lands.

(d) Relation to property rights and State and local law

Nothing in this subchapter is intended to affect rights or interests in real property or supersede State law.

Source Credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title I, §122, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1664.)

Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT

This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 106–399, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1655, known as the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 460nnn of this title and Tables.

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 16 - CONSERVATION
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER CXXV - STEENS MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION AREA
Part A - Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area
subpart 3 - cooperative management
Sec. 460nnn-42 - Cooperative efforts to control development and encourage conservation
Contains section 460nnn-42
Date 2019
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 24, 2020
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 114 Stat. 1664, 1655
Public Law References Public Law 106-399
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