PUBLIC LAW 106-399—OCT. 30, 2000 114 STAT. 1655 Public Law 106-399 106th Congress An Act To designate the Steens Mountain Wilderness Area and the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area in Harney County, Oregon, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; PURPOSES; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE. —This Act may be cited as the "Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000". (b) PURPOSES. —The purposes of this Act are the following: (1) To maintain the cultural, economic, ecological, and social health of the Steens Mountain area in Harney County, Oregon. (2) To designate the Steens Mountain Wilderness Area. (3) To designate the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area. (4) To provide for the acquisition of private lands through exchange for inclusion in the Wilderness Area and the Cooperative Management and Protection Area. (5) To provide for and expand cooperative management activities between public and private landowners in the vicinity of the Wilderness Area and surrounding lands. (6) To authorize the purchase of land and development and nondevelopment rights. (7) To designate additional components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. (8) To establish a reserve for redband trout and a wildlands juniper management area. (9) To establish a citizens' management advisory council for the Cooperative Management and Protection Area. (10) To maintain and enhance cooperative and innovative management practices between the public and private land managers in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area. (11) To promote viable and sustainable grazing and recreation operations on private and public lands. (12) To conserve, protect, and manage for healthy watersheds and the long-term ecological integrity of Steens Mountain. (13) To authorize only such uses on Federal lands in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area that are consistent with the purposes of this Act. Oct. 30, 2000 ~1:H.R. 4828] Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000. 16 USC 460nnn note. 16 USC 460nnn note.
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