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Summary

Mount Rainier National Park’s border is changed to add about two hundred and forty acres and to remove about thirty-one and one-half acres. The same map showing these changes is called "Mount Rainier National Park Proposed 1987 Boundary Adjustments", numbered 105–80,010B and dated January 1987. That map is kept for public viewing at the National Park Service office in Washington and at Mount Rainier National Park. The forest borders are also changed so about thirty-one and one-half acres move into the Snoqualmie National Forest, about thirty acres are removed from Snoqualmie, and about two hundred and ten acres are removed from the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The same January 1987 map is on file at the Forest Service office in Washington, DC and at the Snoqualmie and Gifford Pinchot National Forests. Lands added to the park that used to be in the forests are turned over to the Secretary of the Interior to manage as park land, keeping any valid existing rights. The Interior Secretary can accept full federal control or share control with the State and must tell the Governor of Washington if control is accepted. The Secretary may also acquire non-Federal land within the new park boundary from willing sellers by gift, purchase, exchange, or bequest. Lands taken out of the park and moved into the Snoqualmie National Forest go to the Secretary of Agriculture to manage under national forest laws. For some federal purposes, the new forest lines count as if they existed on January 1, 1965. Any U.S. jurisdiction over lands removed from the park is returned to the State of Washington when the State accepts it.

Title 16, §110c

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(a)Park boundary adjustments

The boundaries of the Mount Rainier National Park as established in the Act of March 2, 1899 (30 Stat. 993), as amended; (16 U.S.C. 91–110b), are further revised to add to the Park approximately two hundred and forty acres, and to exclude from the park approximately thirty-one and one-half acres, as generally depicted on the map entitled “Mount Rainier National Park Proposed 1987 Boundary Adjustments”, numbered 105–80,010B and dated January 1987, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Washington office of the National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior and at Mount Rainier National Park.

(b)Forest boundary adjustment

The boundaries of the Snoqualmie National Forest and of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, are hereby revised to include in the Snoqualmie National Forest approximately thirty-one and one-half acres, to exclude from the Snoqualmie National Forest approximately thirty acres, and to exclude from the Gifford Pinchot National Forest approximately two hundred and ten acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled “Mount Rainier National Park Proposed 1987 Boundary Adjustments”, numbered 105–80,010B, and dated January 1987, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Washington, District of Columbia office of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture and at the Snoqualmie and Gifford Pinchot National Forests.

(c)Administration of park land (d) Administration of forest land

(1)Federal lands, and interests therein formerly within the boundary of the Snoqualmie National Forest and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which are included within the boundary of the Mount Rainier National Park pursuant to this Act are, subject to valid existing rights, hereby transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for administration as part of the Park, and shall be subject to all the laws and regulations of the Park.

(2)The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept either concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction over lands and waters included within Mount Rainier National Park by this Act. The Secretary shall notify in writing the Governor of the State of Washington of the acceptance of any such jurisdiction ceded to the United States by the State. The existing exclusive Federal jurisdiction, where it exists in the Park, shall remain in effect until such time as the Secretary and the Governor shall agree upon the terms and conditions of concurrent legislative jurisdiction for said Park pursuant to section 251l of this title.

(3)Authorization of Land Acquisition.—

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire from willing sellers by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, exchange, bequest, or otherwise all non-Federal lands, waters, and interests therein included within the boundary of the Mount Rainier National Park pursuant to this Act.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Act of March 2, 1899 (30 Stat. 993), as amended, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Mar. 2, 1899, ch. 377, 30 Stat. 993, which enacted section 91, 92, and 93 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. This Act, referred to in subsecs. (c) and (d), is Pub. L. 100–668, Nov. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 3961, which enacted section 110c of this title, amended section 90b, 90c–1, 90d–4, 251n, 256b, 256c, and 1274 of this title, and enacted provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title and provisions set out as notes under section 90, 90b, and 251n of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

of 1988 Amendment note set out under section 90 of this title and Tables. Codification In subsec. (d)(2), “section 100506(c) and 200306 of title 54” substituted for “section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 903, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 460l–9)” on authority of Pub. L. 113–287, § 6(e), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which Act enacted Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.

§110c Boundary Adjustments