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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 410c. Preservation of primitive condition

Statutory text

The said area or areas shall be permanently reserved as a wilderness, and no development of the project or plan for the entertainment of visitors shall be undertaken which will interfere with the preservation intact of the unique flora and fauna and the essential primitive natural conditions now prevailing in this area.

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. 73–371 § 4 · 48 Stat. 816

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 410c

    (May 30, 1934, ch. 371, § 4, 48 Stat. 817.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 30, 1934, ch. 371, § 4, 48 Stat. 817.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. The said area or areas shall be permanently reserved as a wilderness, and no development of the project or plan for the entertainment of visitors shall be undertaken which will interfere with the preservation intact of the unique flora and fauna and the essential primitive natural conditions now prevailing in this area.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 30, 1934, ch. 371, § 4, 48 Stat. 817.)

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