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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§460yy Establishment

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER CX— - CITY OF ROCKS NATIONAL RESERVE › § 460yy

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the City of Rocks National Reserve to protect important historic and cultural sites, manage recreation, keep the scenery, and explain the reserve’s national value. The reserve covers approximately 14,320 acres shown on map P30–80,005 dated October 1987, on file with the National Park Service and the Governor of Idaho. Within six months after November 18, 1988, the Secretary of the Interior must file a legal description with the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. That description has the same legal effect as if in the law, and the Secretary may fix clerical or typographical errors. The legal description will be available for public inspection at the National Park Service and the Governor’s office.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460yy

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(a)There is hereby established the City of Rocks National Reserve (hereinafter referred to as the “reserve”), in order to preserve and protect the significant historical and cultural resources; to manage recreational use; to protect and maintain scenic quality; and to interpret the nationally significant values of the reserve.
(b)The reserve shall include approximately fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty acres as depicted on the map entitled “Boundary Map, City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho” numbered P30–80,005 and dated October 1987. The map shall be on file in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior and the Offices of the Governor, State of Idaho.
(c)Within six months after November 18, 1988, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”) shall file a legal description of the reserve designated under this section with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives and with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. Such legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that the Secretary may correct clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and in the map referred to in subsection (b). The legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior and the offices of the Governor of the State of Idaho.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460yy

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73