Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§342b Lafayette National Park Name Changed to Acadia National Park; Land Unaffected by Federal Power Act
Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter XXXVII— ACADIA NATIONAL PARK › § 342b
Summary
Lafayette National Park, including any land added later, is renamed Acadia National Park. Any money that was or will be provided for Lafayette can be used by Acadia, and the Federal Power Act does not apply to land in the park now or added later.
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Title 16, §342b
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The area now within the Lafayette National Park, together with such additions as may hereafter be made thereto, shall be known as the Acadia National Park, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Lafayette National Park: Provided, That the provisions of the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.] shall not apply to or extend to any lands now or hereafter included in said park.
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The Federal Power Act, referred to in text, was in the original the “Act of
June 10, 1920, entitled ‘An Act to create a Federal Power Commission, to provide for the improvement of navigation, the development of water power, the use of the public lands in relation thereto, and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved
August 8, 1917, and for other purposes’ ”, was redesignated the Federal Power Act by section 791a of this title. The Federal Power Act is act
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, 41 Stat. 1063, and is classified generally to chapter 12 (§ 791a et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 791a of this title and Tables.
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16 U.S.C. § 342b
Title 16 — Conservation
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Apr 5, 2026
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