§ 80a. — General Grant National Park abolished; lands added to Kings Canyon National Park.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC80a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VIII--KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 80a. General Grant National Park abolished; lands added to
Kings Canyon National Park
The General Grant National Park is abolished, and the west half of
section 33, township 13 south, range 28 east, and west half of section
4, all of section 8 and the northwest quarter of section 9, township 14
south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, together with
the lands formerly within the General Grant National Park, California,
and particularly described as follows, to wit: All of sections 31 and
32, township 13 south, range 28 east, and sections 5 and 6, township 14
south, range 28 east, of the same meridian, are, subject to valid
existing rights, added to and made a part of the Kings Canyon National
Park and such lands shall be known as the General Grant grove section of
the said park. The General Grant grove section of the Kings Canyon
National Park may, by proclamation of the President, be extended to
include the following described lands, to wit: Section 9, south half,
section 10, southwest quarter, and that part of the east half south of
Generals Highway; section 11, that part south of Generals Highway;
section 13, that part south of Generals Highway; section 14, that part
south of Generals Highway, section 15, east half, northwest quarter, and
the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 21, southeast
quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast
quarter; section 22, east half, east half of the northwest quarter,
southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and southwest quarter;
section 23; section 24, that part south of Generals Highway; sections 25
and 26; section 27, east half, northwest quarter, and that part of the
southwest quarter north and east of the crest of Redwood Mountain;
section 34, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; sections 35
and 36, township 14 south, range 28 east; all of sections 1 and 2;
section 3, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; section 11,
that part east and north of the crest of Redwood Mountain; all of
section 12; section 13, that part north of the Sequoia National Park
boundary, township 15 south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, which
shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the
said park. Such extension of the General Grant grove section of the said
park shall not interfere with the movement of stock and vehicular
traffic without charge, under general regulations to be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Interior, to and from national forest lands on
either side of the said park extension. The Kings Canyon National Park
shall receive and use all moneys prior to or after March 4, 1940,
appropriated for General Grant National Park.
(Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, Sec. 2, 54 Stat. 43.)
Nation's Christmas Tree
Joint Res. Mar. 29, 1956, ch. 98, 70 Stat. 57, provided: ``That the
General Grant tree, which is located in the Kings Canyon National Park,
in Fresno County, California, and which was dedicated by the Federal
Government in 1926 as the Nation's Christmas Tree, is hereby declared to
be a national shrine in memory of the men and women of the Armed Forces
who have served and fought and died to keep this Nation free and to
preserve the spiritual, human, and civil rights which are the essence of
our American heritage. The Secretary of the Interior, through the
National Park Service, shall make appropriate provision for the
perpetual care and maintenance of such shrine.
``Sec. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to change the name of
the General Grant tree.''
Adjustment of Boundaries and Rights
Act June 5, 1942, ch. 333, Secs. 1, 2, 56 Stat. 310, authorized the
Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of privately owned
lands in the General Grant grove section of Kings Canyon National Park
in accordance with a survey made by the county surveyor of Tulare
County, California; to amend existing patents or relinquish or grant
parcels of land therein according to said survey; and to pay from
departmental appropriations expenses of surveys and investigations
necessary to carry out provisions of this act.
