§ 460n-1. — Boundaries of area; filing of map with Federal Register; revision; donations of land; property acquisition and exclusion.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC460n-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXXII--LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
Sec. 460n-1. Boundaries of area; filing of map with Federal
Register; revision; donations of land; property acquisition and
exclusion
Lake Mead National Recreation Area shall comprise that particular
land and water area which is shown on a certain map, identified as
``boundary map, RA-LM-7060-B, revised July 17, 1963'', which is on file
and which shall be available for public inspection in the office of the
National Park Service of the Department of the Interior. An exact copy
of such map shall be filed with the Federal Register within thirty days
following October 8, 1964, and an exact copy thereof shall be available
also for public inspection in the headquarters office of the
superintendent of the said Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to revise the boundaries
of such national recreation area, subject to the requirement that the
total acreage of that area, as revised, shall be no greater than the
present acreage thereof. In the event of such boundary revision, maps of
the recreation area, as revised, shall be prepared by the Department of
the Interior, and shall be filed in the same manner, and shall be
available for public inspection also in accordance with the aforesaid
procedures and requirements relating to the filing and availability of
maps. The Secretary may accept donations of land and interests in land
within the exterior boundaries of such area, or such property may be
procured by the Secretary in such manner as he shall consider to be in
the public interest.
In exercising his authority to acquire property by exchange, the
Secretary may accept title to any non-Federal property located within
the boundaries of the recreation area and convey to the grantor of such
property any federally owned property under the jurisdiction of the
Secretary, not withstanding any other provision of law. The properties
so exchanged shall be approximately equal in fair market value:
Provided, That the Secretary may accept cash from or pay cash to the
grantor in such an exchange in order to equalize the values of the
properties exchanged.
Establishment or revision of the boundaries of the said national
recreation area, as herein prescribed, shall not affect adversely any
valid rights in the area, nor shall it affect the validity of
withdrawals heretofore made for reclamation or power purposes. All lands
in the recreation area which have been withdrawn or acquired by the
United States for reclamation purposes shall remain subject to the
primary use thereof for reclamation and power purposes so long as they
are withdrawn or needed for such purposes. There shall be excluded from
the said national recreation area by the Secretary of the Interior any
property for management or protection by the Bureau of Reclamation,
which would be subject otherwise to inclusion in the said recreation
area, and which the Secretary of the Interior considers in the national
interest should be excluded therefrom.
(Pub. L. 88-639, Sec. 2, Oct. 8, 1964, 78 Stat. 1039.)
Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction to National Park Service
Pub. L. 107-282, title III, Sec. 302, Nov. 6, 2002, 116 Stat. 2006,
provided that:
``(a) In General.--Administrative jurisdiction over the parcel of
land described in subsection (b) is transferred from the Bureau of Land
Management to the National Park Service for inclusion in the Lake Mead
National Recreation Area.
``(b) Description of Land.--The parcel of land referred to in
subsection (a) is the approximately 10 acres of Bureau of Land
Management land, as depicted on the map entitled `Eldorado/Spirit
Mountain' and dated October 1, 2002.
``(c) Use of Land.--The parcel of land described in subsection (b)
shall be used by the National Park Service for administrative
facilities.''
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 460n-9 of this title.
