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title: "16 U.S.C. § 460mmm–3"
description: "Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness designation"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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section: "460mmm–3"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 460mmm–3 - Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness designation

## Text

Certain lands in Mesa County, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah, which comprise approximately 75,550 acres as generally depicted on the Map, are hereby designated as wilderness and therefore as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Such component shall be known as the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness.

(Pub. L. 106–353, § 5, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1375.)