Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 284. Establishment; statement of purposes; description; acquisition of property; acreage limitation
Statutory text
For the purpose of establishing in the National Capital area a park for the performing arts and related educational programs, and for recreation use in connection therewith, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to establish, develop, improve, operate, and maintain the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Fairfax County, Virginia. The park shall encompass the portions of the property formerly known as Wolf Trap Farm and Symphony Hill in Fairfax County, Virginia, to be donated for park purposes to the United States, and such additional lands or interests therein as the Secretary may acquire for purposes of the park by donation or purchase with donated or appropriated funds, the aggregate of which shall not exceed one hundred and forty-five acres.
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. 89–671 § 1 · 80 Stat. 950
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 284
Pub. L. 89–671, § 1, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 950
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 89–671, § 1, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 950Pub. L. 107–219 § 1(a)(1) · 116 Stat. 1330
Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 284
Pub. L. 107–219 substituted “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts” for “Wolf Trap Farm Park”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 107–219 substituted “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts” for “Wolf Trap Farm Park”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) 16 USC 284 and note, 284j. by striking “Wolf Trap Farm Park” each place it appears and inserting “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2002—Pub. L. 107–219 substituted “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts” for “Wolf Trap Farm Park”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Section 12 of Pub. L. 89–671, as added by Pub. L. 97–310, , 96 Stat. 1458, and amended by Pub. L. 107–219, § 1(a)(1), , 116 Stat. 1330, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter] may be referred to as the ‘Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Act’.”
Study of Park Future; Report to Congress
Pub. L. 89–671, § 13, as added by Pub. L. 101–636, § 3, , 104 Stat. 4587, directed Secretary, acting jointly with the Foundation, to conduct a study and analysis of the operations and management practices being used to carry out the purposes of this subchapter and to submit, not later than 2 years after , a report of such study and analysis to Congress.
Credits
1966–2002 · 2 acts
Show as published
(Pub. L. 89–671, § 1, , 80 Stat. 950; Pub. L. 107–219, § 1(a)(1), , 116 Stat. 1330.)