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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 271e. Report to President

Statutory text

Within three years from , the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the President, in accordance with section 1132(c) and (d) of this title, his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any area within the national park for preservation as wilderness, and any designation of any such area as a wilderness shall be accomplished in accordance with said section 1132(c) and (d) of this title.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 88–590 § 6 · 78 Stat. 934

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 271e

    (Pub. L. 88–590, § 6, as added Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(d), Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 421.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 88–590, § 6, as added Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(d), Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 421.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 88–590, § 6, as added Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(d), , 85 Stat. 421.)

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