Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 79a. Establishment; statement of purposes
Statutory text
In order to preserve significant examples of the primeval coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests and the streams and seashores with which they are associated for purposes of public inspiration, enjoyment, and scientific study, there is hereby established a Redwood National Park in Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California.
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. 90–545 § 1 · 82 Stat. 931
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 79a
(Pub. L. 90–545, § 1, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 931.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 90–545, § 1, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 931.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, there is hereby vested in the United States all right, title, and interest in, and the right to immediate possession of, all real property within the nark boundaries designated in maps NPS-RED-7114-A and NPS-RED-7114—B, except real property owned by the State of California or a political subdivision thereof and except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection. The Secretary shall allow for the orderly term nation of all alterations on real property acquired by the United States under this subsection, and for the removal of equipment, facilities, and personal property therefrom.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title of 2005 Amendment
Pub. L. 109–131, title III, § 301, , 119 Stat. 2569, provided that: “This title [amending section 79b of this title] may be cited as the ‘Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005’.”
Thomas H. Kuchel Visitor Center
Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(e) [title I, § 146], , 112 Stat. 2681–231, 2681–267, provided that: “The Redwood Information Center located at 119231 Highway 101 in Orick, California is hereby named the ‘Thomas H. Kuchel Visitor Center’ and shall be referred to in any law, document or record of the United States as the ‘Thomas H. Kuchel Visitor Center’.”