Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§404 Establishment; boundaries
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XLVII— - MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK › § 404
Summary
When the United States owns the land outright, the Mammoth Cave area in Kentucky will be made into a public park. The park will be about seventy thousand six hundred and eighteen acres, as recommended on April 8, 1926, and will be called Mammoth Cave National Park. The United States may not buy these lands with public money; they must be given by public or private donation.
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Title 16, §404
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When title to lands within the area referred to in this section shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple, there shall be, and there is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, the tract of land in the Mammoth Cave region in the State of Kentucky, being approximately seventy thousand six hundred and eighteen acres, recommended as a National Park by the Southern Appalachian National Park Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, in its report of April 8, 1926, and made under authority of the Act of February 21, 1925 (chapter 281, 43 Statutes 958); which area, or any part or parts thereof as may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be known as the Mammoth Cave National Park: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation.
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Act of February 21, 1925, referred to in text, was not classified to the Code.
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16 U.S.C. § 404
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73