16 U.S.C. § 410mm: Establishment

Summary

Creates Great Basin National Park to protect a representative part of the Great Basin with important geology and scenery. The park covers approximately 76,000 acres shown on the map titled "Boundary Map, Great Basin National Park, Nevada," number NA–GB 20,017, dated October 1986. That map is kept for public inspection at the National Park Service (Department of the Interior) and at the Great Basin National Park superintendent’s office in Nevada. 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 within 6 months after October 27, 1986; that description has the same effect as if written into the law, and the Secretary may correct clerical or typographical errors. The legal description is also on file at the National Park Service for public inspection. Lehman Caves National Monument, set aside by presidential proclamation on January 24, 1922, is abolished and its lands are added to Great Basin National Park. Any funds that were available for the former monument may be used for the park.

Title 16, §410mm

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(a)Purpose; designation

In order to preserve for the benefit and inspiration of the people a representative segment of the Great Basin of the Western United States possessing outstanding resources and significant geological and scenic values, there is hereby established the Great Basin National Park (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “park”).

(b)Composition; filing of map; public inspection

The park shall consist of approximately seventy-six thousand acres, as depicted on the map entitled “Boundary Map, Great Basin National Park, Nevada,” numbered NA–GB 20,017, and dated October 1986. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and the Office of the Superintendent, Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

(c)Filing of legal description; public inspection

Within 6 months after October 27, 1986, the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”) shall file a legal description of the park 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 (a). The legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

(d)Incorporation of Lehman Caves National Monument within park

(1)The Lehman Caves National Monument, designated on January 24, 1922, by Presidential proclamation under the authority contained in the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225) is hereby abolished and the lands incorporated within the Great Basin National Park. Any reference in any law, map, regulation, document, record, or other paper of the United States to such national monument shall be deemed to be a reference to Great Basin National Park.

(2)Any funds available for purposes of the national monument shall be available for purposes of the park.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Act of

June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is act

June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, known as the Antiquities Act of 1906, which was classified generally to section 431, 432, and 433 of this title. The Act was repealed and restated as section 1866(b) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 320301(a) to (c), 320302, and 320303 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

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.

Short Title

Pub. L. 99–565, § 1, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3181, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter] may be known as the ‘Great Basin National Park Act of 1986’.”

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