Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 271. Establishment; description of area
Statutory text
In order to preserve an area in the State of Utah possessing superlative scenic, scientific, and archeologic features for the inspiration, benefit, and use of the public, there is hereby established the Canyonlands National Park which, subject to valid existing rights, shall comprise the area generally depicted on the drawing entitled “Boundary Map, Canyonlands National Park, Utah”, numbered 164–91004 and dated June 1970, which shows the boundaries of the park having a total of approximately three hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight acres. The map is on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 88–590 § 1 · 78 Stat. 934
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 271
Pub. L. 88–590, § 1, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 934
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 88–590, § 1, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 934Pub. L. 92–154 § 1(a) · 85 Stat. 421
Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 271
Pub. L. 92–154 substituted provision respecting revision of boundaries of the park and referring to Boundary Map on file and available for public inspection for depiction of the park area on the drawing, for prior specific detailed description of the area
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 92–154 substituted provision respecting revision of boundaries of the park and referring to Boundary Map on file and available for public inspection for depiction of the park area on the drawing, for prior specific detailed description of the area.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) in the first sentence, delete the words “described in section 1 hereof or” which appear after the word “area”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1971—Pub. L. 92–154 substituted provision respecting revision of boundaries of the park and referring to Boundary Map on file and available for public inspection for depiction of the park area on the drawing, for prior specific detailed description of the area.
Credits
1964–1971 · 2 acts
- 1964Pub. L. 88–590, § 1, , 78 Stat. 934
- 1971Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(a), , 85 Stat. 421.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 88–590, § 1, , 78 Stat. 934; Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(a), , 85 Stat. 421.)