§ 410mm. — Establishment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC410mm]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LIX-K--GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 410mm. Establishment
(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) of this section. 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) [16 U.S.C. 431-433] 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.
(Pub. L. 99-565, Sec. 2, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3181.)
References in Text
Act of June 8, 1906, referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is act June 8,
1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, known as the Antiquities Act of 1906,
which is classified generally to sections 431, 432, and 433 of this
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short
Title note set out under section 431 of this title and Tables.
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. Committee on Natural Resources of House of
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
Short Title
Section 1 of Pub. L. 99-565 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this
subchapter] may be known as the `Great Basin National Park Act of
1986'.''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 410mm-1 of this title.
