§ 342. — Administration, protection, and promotion.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC342]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XXXVII--ACADIA NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 342. Administration, protection, and promotion
The administration, protection, and promotion of Acadia National
Park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the
Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of
sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and Acts additional thereto or
amendatory thereof.
(Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 45, Sec. 2, 40 Stat. 1179; Jan. 19, 1929, ch. 77,
Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 1083.)
Change of Name
``Lafayette National Park'' changed to ``Acadia National Park'' by
act Jan. 19, 1929.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Jurisdiction of Certain Lands
Act July 30, 1947, ch. 350, 61 Stat. 519, provided:
``That control and jurisdiction over the following-described lands
now comprising a portion of the Acadia National Park, in the State of
Maine, are hereby transferred from the Department of the Interior to the
Department of the Navy: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior
shall retain the right to approve the design of the buildings and
structures to be placed thereon.
``All that certain tract or parcel of land on Big Moose Island,
Winter Harbor, Maine, which is bounded southerly and easterly by a chain
link security fence, and northerly and westerly by the waters of Pond
Island Cove and Frenchman Bay, and which is more particularly described
as beginning at a point on the shore at the high-water mark of Frenchman
Bay on the southwesterly side of Big Moose Island, so called, thence
following the chain link security fence as now erected by the three
following courses and distances: North no degrees five minutes west one
hundred and fifty-three feet; thence north thirty degrees twenty-four
minutes east one hundred and fifty-seven and seven-tenths feet; thence
south eighty-nine degrees nine minutes east one thousand four hundred
and fifty-five and three-tenths feet to a point and angle in the said
security fence which bears north thirty-four degrees fifty-four minutes
west and is fifty feet distant at right angles from a point in the
center line of the National Park Service road known as the Big Moose
Island Road; thence turning to the left and following the said security
fence in a general northerly direction but everywhere parallel with and
fifty feet distant from the center line of the said Big Moose Island
Road three thousand five hundred feet more or less to the high-water
mark on the shore of Pond Island Cove; thence in a generally westerly
and southerly direction but everywhere following the high-water mark of
Pond Island Cove and Frenchman Bay seven thousand four hundred and
seventy feet more or less to the place of beginning; except that portion
thereof, containing twenty-five and ninety-six one-hundredths acres,
which was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy
pursuant to the Act of August 24, 1935 (ch. 644, 49 Stat. 795); the
lands herein described containing one hundred and fifty-one and eighty-
six one-hundredths acres, after excluding the excepted portion.
``Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized and directed to
retransfer jurisdiction over the property described in section 1 of this
Act to the Secretary of the Interior in the event such property
hereafter becomes surplus to the needs of the Department of the Navy, in
which event it again shall become a part of Acadia National Park.''
