16 U.S.C. § 410jjj: Establishment

Summary

Creates Congaree National Park to protect a near-virgin southern hardwood forest in the Congaree River floodplain in Richland County, South Carolina. The park includes the area shown on the map titled "Congaree Swamp National Monument", number CS–80,001–B, dated August 1976 (the Beidler Tract), and the area shown on the "Citizens Boundary Proposal for Congaree Swamp National Monument", number 178–80,009A, dated July 1988. These maps are on file at the National Park Service. The Secretary of the Interior may make small boundary changes after giving written notice to the House and Senate Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and publishing a revised map in the Federal Register. The Secretary may also acquire about 4,576 acres next to the park (shown on "Congaree National Park Boundary Map", number 178/80015, dated August 2003) by donation, willing sale, transfer, or exchange. Acquired land must be added to and managed as part of the park. The law does not change how private land next to the park is used, does not override state rules on hunting, fishing, boating, or wildlife on private land or water outside the park, must not hurt local economic development, and does not change the park’s classification under section 7472 of title 42. The park may not exceed 26,776 acres.

Title 16, §410jjj

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(a)In general

In order to preserve and protect for the education, inspiration, and enjoyment of present and future generations an outstanding example of a near-virgin southern hardwood forest situated in the Congaree River floodplain in Richland County, South Carolina, there is established the Congaree National Park (hereinafter referred to as the “park”). The park shall consist of the area within the boundary as generally depicted on the map entitled “Congaree Swamp National Monument”, numbered CS–80, 001–B, and dated August 1976 (generally known as the Beidler Tract), which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Following reasonable notice in writing to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives of his intention to do so, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) may make minor revisions of the boundary of the park by publication of a revised map or other boundary description in the Federal Register.

(b)Additional land (c) Acquisition of additional land (d) Acreage limitation

In addition to the lands described in subsection (a), the park shall consist of the additional lands within the boundary as generally depicted on the map entitled “Citizens Boundary Proposal for Congaree Swamp National Monument”, numbered 178–80,009A, dated July 1988, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The map may be revised as provided in subsection (a).

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Hereinafter, referred to in subsec. (a), means Pub. L. 94–545, which is classified to this subchapter. For complete classification of Pub. L. 94–545 to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

2004—Subsec. (c)(6). Pub. L. 108–199, § 139(a), added par. (6) and struck out former par. (6) which read: “Nothing in this section— “(A) affects the use of private land adjacent to the park; “(B) preempts the authority of the State with respect to the regulation of hunting, fishing, boating, and wildlife management on private land or water outside the boundaries of the park; or “(C) negatively affects the economic development of the areas surrounding the park.” 2003—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–108, § 148(1), struck out last sentence which read “The total acreage of the monument including lands described in subsection (a) and this subsection shall not exceed 22,200 acres.” Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 108–108, § 148(2), added subsecs. (c) and (d). 1988—Pub. L. 100–524 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), struck out “, but the total area may not exceed fifteen thousand, two hundred acres” after “Federal Register”, and added subsec. (b).

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Change of Name

“Congaree National Park”, “park”, and “Park” substituted in text for “Congaree Swamp National Monument”, “monument”, and “Monument”, respectively, pursuant to Pub. L. 108–108, § 135, which is set out below and which redesignated the Congaree Swamp National Monument as the Congaree National Park. Pub. L. 108–108, title I, § 135, Nov. 10, 2003, 117 Stat. 1270, provided that: “Upon enactment of this Act, the Congaree Swamp National Monument shall be designated the Congaree National Park.” Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate abolished and replaced by Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, effective Feb. 11, 1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of the Senate, as amended by Senate Resolution No. 4 (popularly cited as the “Committee System Reorganization

Amendments

of 1977”), approved Feb. 4, 1977. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.

Short Title

of 1988 Amendment Pub. L. 100–524, § 1, Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2606, provided that: “This Act [enacting section 191a of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining, amending this section and section 410jjj–4 of this title, and enacting provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out under section 1132 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Congaree Swamp National Monument Expansion and Wilderness Act’.”

§410jjj Establishment

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Title 16, §410jjj

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