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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 273. Establishment

Statutory text

(a)

Description of area

Subject to valid existing rights, the lands, waters, and interests therein within the boundary generally depicted on the map entitled “Boundary Map, Proposed Capitol Reef National Park, Utah,” numbered 158–91,002, and dated January 1971, are hereby established as the Capitol Reef National Park (hereinafter referred to as the “park”). Such map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

(b)

Abolition of Capitol Reef National Monument; funds of monument available for park; administration of lands excluded from monument

The Capitol Reef National Monument is hereby abolished, and any funds available for purposes of the monument shall be available for purposes of the park. Federal lands, waters, and interests therein excluded from the monument by this subchapter shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) in accordance with the laws applicable to the public lands of the United States.

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. 92–207 § 1 · 85 Stat. 739

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 273

    (Pub. L. 92–207, § 1, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 739.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 92–207, § 1, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 739.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Pub. L. 92–207, § 1, , 85 Stat. 739.)

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