114 STAT. 1664 PUBLIC LAW 106-399 —OCT. 30, 2000 SEC. 122. COOPERATIVE EFFORTS TO CONTROL DEVELOPMENT AND ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION. (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 Act. (b) USE OF NONDEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION EASE- MENTS.—The Secretary may enter into a nondevelopment easement or conservation easement with willing landowners to further the purposes of this Act. (c) CONSERVATION INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.— The Secretary may provide technical assistance, cost-share payments, incentive pay- ments, 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 Act is intended to affect rights or interests in real property or supersede State law. Subtitle D—Advisory Council 16 USC 460nnn-51. SEC. 131. ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVISORY COUNCIL. (a) ESTABLISHMENT. — The Secretary shall establish the Steens Mountain Advisory Council to advise the Secretary in managing the Cooperative Management and Protection Area and in promoting the cooperative management under subtitle C. (b) MEMBERS. —The advisory council shall consist of 12 voting members, to be appointed by the Secretary, as follows: (1) A private landowner in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area, appointed from nominees submitted by the county court for Harney County, Oregon. (2) Two persons who are grazing permittees on Federal lands in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area, appointed from nominees submitted by the county court for Harney County, Oregon. (3) A person interested in fish and recreational fishing in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area, appointed from nominees submitted by the Governor of Oregon. (4) A member of the Burns Paiute Tribe, appointed from nominees submitted by the Burns Paiute Tribe. (5) Two persons who are recognized environmental representatives, one of whom shall represent the State as a whole, and one of whom is from the local area, appointed from nominees submitted by the Governor of Oregon. (6) A person who participates in what is commonly called dispersed recreation, such as hiking, camping, nature viewing, nature photography, bird watching, horse back riding, or trail walking, appointed from nominees submitted by the Oregon State Director of the Bureau of Land Management. (7) A person who is a recreational permit holder or is a representative of a commercial recreation operation in the Cooperative Management and Protection Area, appointed from nominees submitted jointly by the Oregon State Director of
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