Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§410nn Establishment

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–L — SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410nn

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park to preserve and interpret American seafaring history, especially on the Pacific coast. The park covers the lands shown on the map titled "Boundary Map, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park", number 641/80,053, dated April 7, 1987, which is kept on file at the National Park Service and the park superintendent’s office. After finishing the park’s General Management Plan, the Secretary of the Interior may add the Haslett Warehouse at Jefferson and Hyde Streets in San Francisco if it helps the park, but only after telling the Committee on Natural Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the U.S. Senate. The Secretary may also make minor boundary changes under section 100506(c) of title 54. The Secretary must remove the park area from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and move all related federal land, buildings, vessels, marine collections, libraries, historic documents, equipment, and other marine artifacts inside the park to park control. The museum building that holds these collections must be called the "Sala Burton Building" and must have a plaque with that name.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §410nn

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(a)In general
In order to preserve and interpret the history and achievements of seafaring Americans and of the Nation’s maritime heritage, especially on the Pacific coast, there is hereby established the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “park”).
(b)Area included
The park shall consist of the lands and interests therein within the area generally depicted on the map entitled “Boundary Map, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park”, numbered 641/80,053 and dated April 7, 1987. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior and in the office of the Superintendent of the park. If the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”) determines, upon completion of the General Management Plan for the park, that the inclusion of the property at Jefferson and Hyde Streets, San Francisco, known as the Haslett Warehouse, would promote the purposes of the park, the Secretary may adjust the boundaries of the park to include that property after notification to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. The Secretary may make other minor revisions of the boundary of the park in accordance with section 100506(c) of title 54.
(c)Golden Gate National Recreation Area
The Secretary shall revise the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to exclude from the National Recreation Area the area within the park (as depicted on the boundary map referred to in subsection (b)). The Secretary shall transfer to the jurisdiction of the park all real and personal property of the United States administered by the Secretary as part of the National Recreation Area located within the boundaries of the park (including the museum building), together with all vessels, marine collections, libraries, historic documents, equipment and other marine artifacts which are administered by the Secretary as part of the National Recreation Area and which relate to maritime history.
(d)Museum building
The building housing and displaying the marine collections, libraries, historic documents, equipment, and marine artifacts shall be named the “Sala Burton Building” and an appropriate plaque with this designation shall be prominently displayed as part of the structure.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 100–348, June 27, 1988, 102 Stat. 654, known as the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Act of 1988, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out below and Tables. Codification In subsec. (b), “section 100506(c) of title 54” substituted for “section 7(c) of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965” 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.

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” after “Committee on”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Short Title

Pub. L. 100–348, § 1, June 27, 1988, 102 Stat. 654, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter and amending section 460bb–3 of this title] may be cited as the ‘San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Act of 1988’.”

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 410nn

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

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