1. U.S. Code
  2. title 16
  3. chapter 1
  4. subchapter CXXVI
  5. § 460ooo-3

Collapse to view only § 460ooo-3. Establishment of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

§ 460ooo. Definitions
For the purposes of this subchapter, the following definitions apply:
(1) Conservation Area
(2) Acquisition Planning District
(3) Management plan
(4) Public lands
(5) Secretary
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 1, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2563.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo

§ 460ooo–1. Establishment of the Sonoita Valley Acquisition Planning District
(a) In general
(b) Areas included
(c) Map and legal description
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 2, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2563.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-1

§ 460ooo–2. Purposes of the Acquisition Planning District
(a) In general
(b) Federal lands
(c) Fish and wildlife
(d) Protection of State and private lands and interests
(e) Public lands
(f) Coordinated management
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 3, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2564.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-2

§ 460ooo–3. Establishment of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
(a) In general
(b) Areas included
(c) Maps and legal description
(d) Forest lands
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 4, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2564.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-3

§ 460ooo–4. Management of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
(a) In general
(b) Uses
(c) Grazing
(d) Motorized vehicles
(1) before the effective date of a management plan prepared pursuant to section 460ooo–5 of this title, on roads and trails designated for use of motorized vehicles in the management plan that applies on December 6, 2000; and
(2) after the effective date of a management plan prepared pursuant to section 460ooo–5 of this title, on roads and trails designated for use of motor vehicles in that management plan.
(e) Military airspace
(f) Access to State and private lands
(g) Hunting
(h) Preventative measures
(i) No buffer zones
(j) Withdrawals
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 5, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2565.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-4

§ 460ooo–5. Management plan
(a) Plan required
Not later than 2 years after December 6, 2000, the Secretary, through the Bureau of Land Management, shall develop and begin to implement a comprehensive management plan for the long-term management of the public lands within the Conservation Area in order to fulfill the purposes for which it is established, as set forth in section 460ooo–3(a) of this title. Consistent with the provisions of this subchapter, the management plan shall be developed—
(1) in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona, including wildlife and land management agencies, with full public participation;
(2) from the draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem Management Plan/EIS, dated October 2000, as it applies to Federal lands or lands with conservation easements; and
(3) in accordance with the resource goals and objectives developed through the Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership process as incorporated in the draft Empire-Cienega Ecosystem Management Plan/EIS, dated October 2000, giving full consideration to the management alternative preferred by the Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership, as it applies to Federal lands or lands with conservation easements.
(b) Contents
The management plan shall include—
(1) provisions designed to ensure the protection of the resources and values described in section 460ooo–3(a) of this title;
(2) an implementation plan for a continuing program of interpretation and public education about the resources and values of the Conservation Area;
(3) a proposal for minimal administrative and public facilities to be developed or improved at a level compatible with achieving the resource objectives for the Conservation Area and with the other proposed management activities to accommodate visitors to the Conservation Area;
(4) cultural resources management strategies for the Conservation Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona, with emphasis on the preservation of the resources of the Conservation Area and the interpretive, educational, and long-term scientific uses of these resources, giving priority to the enforcement of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.) and the National Historic Preservation Act 1
1 See References in Text note below.
within the Conservation Area;
(5) wildlife management strategies for the Conservation Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona and using previous studies of the Conservation Area;
(6) production livestock grazing management strategies, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona;
(7) provisions designed to ensure the protection of environmentally sustainable livestock use on appropriate lands within the Conservation Area;
(8) recreation management strategies, including motorized and nonmotorized dispersed recreation opportunities for the Conservation Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of Arizona;
(9) cave resources management strategies prepared in compliance with the goals and objectives of the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988 (16 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.); and
(10) provisions designed to ensure that if a road or trail located on public lands within the Conservation Area, or any portion of such a road or trail, is removed, consideration shall be given to providing similar alternative access to the portion of the Conservation Area serviced by such removed road or trail.
(c) Cooperative agreements
(d) Research activities
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 6, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2566.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-5

§ 460ooo–6. Land acquisition
(a) In general
(1) Priority to conservation easements
(2) Private lands
(3) County lands
(4) State lands
(A) In general
(B) Consideration
(C) Transfer of jurisdiction
(b) Management of acquired lands
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 7, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2567.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-6

§ 460ooo–7. Reports to Congress
(a) Protection of certain lands
(b) Implementation of this subchapter
(Pub. L. 106–538, § 8, Dec. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 2568.)

CITE AS: 16 USC 460ooo-7