PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Allows the Secretary of the Interior to set up an administrative area in the El Portal area next to Yosemite so park utilities, buildings, and services can be outside the park. The Secretary can buy or accept donations of about 1,200 acres shown on map NP–YOS–7011, and may take whole privately owned parcels if needed to avoid splitting properties. The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior can swap control of land in El Portal. Land moved to the Interior will no longer be national forest and will be run as the administrative site. Land moved to Agriculture becomes national forest under the Week’s law. Existing private land claims stay valid. Until Congress decides otherwise, these lands are not part of Yosemite National Park, the Interior will manage them, make rules, grant nonexclusive leases or permits, and use National Park Service funds to buy land for the site.

Title 16, §47–1

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(a)To enable the Secretary of the Interior to preserve the extraordinary natural qualities of Yosemite National Park, notwithstanding its increasing use by the public, the Secretary is hereby authorized to provide in the manner hereinafter set forth an administrative site in the El Portal area adjacent to Yosemite National Park, in order that utilities, facilities, and services required in the operation and administration of Yosemite National Park may be located on such site outside the park.

(b)For said site the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by purchase or donation, or with donated funds, approximately twelve hundred acres, as shown on map numbered NP–YOS–7011, of non-Federal land, interests in land, and appurtenances thereto, and, to avoid severing parcels in private ownership which extend beyond the area so depicted, the Secretary of the Interior may acquire in their entirety such parcels of land or interests therein.

(c)The Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior are authorized to arrange and effect mutually satisfactory transfers of jurisdiction over land administered by each in the El Portal area. Land so transferred to the Secretary of the Interior shall thereupon be excluded from the national forest or forests involved and thereafter be administered by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to this section as a part of said administrative site. Land transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to this section shall thereupon become national forest land subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to land acquired pursuant to the Week’s law.

(d)Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid claim, location, or entry existing under the land laws of the United States, or the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land.

(e)Until further action by the Congress, the lands acquired by or transferred to the Secretary of the Interior hereunder shall not become a part of Yosemite National Park, nor be subject to the laws and regulations governing said park, but the Secretary of the Interior shall have supervision, management, and control of the area and shall make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for its use and management: Provided, That he may grant nonexclusive privileges, leases, and permits for the use of land in the area and enter into contracts relating to the same, subject to the limitations and conditions applying to the similar authority provided in section 3 of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended (45 Stat. 235, 16 U.S.C., 1952 edition, sec. 3).11 See References in Text note below.

(f)Funds now or hereafter appropriated or otherwise available for operating and capital programs in the areas administered by the National Park Service, including funds for acquisition of land and interests in land, are made available to acquire land, interests in land, and appurtenances thereto, within the administrative site, and to further the purpose of this section.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Week’s law, referred to in subsec. (c), is act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, which is classified to section 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552 and 563 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 552 of this title and Tables. section 3 of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended (45 Stat. 235, 16 U.S.C., 1952 edition, sec. 3), referred to in subsec. (e), is section 3 of act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, which enacted section 3 of this title. section 3 of the Act was repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 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. Codification Subsecs. (a) to (f) are based on sections 1 to 6, respectively, of Pub. L. 85–922.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Land Exchange, El Portal Administrative Site, California Pub. L. 105–363, § 4, Nov. 6, 1998, 112 Stat. 3298, authorized transfer from the United States of land within the El Portal Administrative Site to party conveying to United States an adjacent property known as the Yosemite View parcel, and provided for equalization of values of Federal and non-Federal lands, applicability of other laws to the exchange, boundary adjustment, map, and additional terms and conditions.

§47–1 Administrative Site for Yosemite National Park