16 U.S.C. § 402f — Further additions to park

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This law lets the President add more land to a park. The President may add listed tracts of Utah land to Bryce Canyon National Park by proclamation. This requires a joint recommendation from the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries, and existing land claims stay protected.

This section lets the President add more land to Bryce Canyon National Park. The purpose is twofold: to protect the scenic features on this land in their natural state, and to round out the park's boundary. To do this, the President may add any or all of a long list of specifically described land parcels in Utah — identified by township, range, section, and smaller subdivisions under the Salt Lake meridian survey system — to the park. The President can only do this after getting a joint recommendation from the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and must act through an official Executive proclamation. Once added, this land becomes part of the park and is subject to all the same laws and regulations that already govern it. The section includes one important protection: adding this land does not affect any valid land claims that already existed on it. It also does not take away the right of stockmen to keep driving livestock across the land, as long as that right already existed under a stock driveway withdrawal in place at the time.

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For the purpose of preserving in their natural state the outstanding scenic features thereon and for the purpose of rounding out the boundary of the Bryce Canyon National Park, the President of the United States is authorized, upon the joint recommendation of the Secretaries of Interior and of Agriculture, to add to said park by Executive proclamation any or all of the following-described lands in the State of Utah, which shall thereupon become and be a part of said park subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto, to wit: South half southwest quarter section 2, south half south half section 3, southeast quarter southeast quarter section 4, east half section 8, sections 9, 10, west half section 11, west half section 14, sections 15, 16, east half, northeast quarter northwest quarter, east half northwest quarter northwest quarter, north half southeast quarter northwest quarter, south half northeast quarter southwest quarter, north half south half southeast quarter northwest quarter and north half southeast quarter southwest quarter section 17, south half south half section 19, south half northwest quarter section 20, west half, west half east half and northeast quarter northeast quarter section 22, north half northwest quarter section 23, west half section 27, and north half northwest quarter section 34, township 36 south, range 3 west; lots 3 and 4, south half northwest quarter section 4, northeast quarter northeast quarter and southeast quarter southeast quarter section 8, township 37 south, range 3 west; west half east half and southwest quarter section 25, unsurveyed township 36 south, range 4 west; lots 3 and 4, south half west half section 3, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 and south half section 4, and lots 1 and 2 and south half east half section 5, township 39 south, range 4 west, Salt Lake meridian: Provided, That nothing herein shall affect any valid existing claims upon the lands herein authorized to be added to the park or the rights of stockmen to continue to drive stock over the lands now under an existing stock driveway withdrawal.

Source credit: (Feb. 17, 1931, ch. 209, § 1, 46 Stat. 1166; Mar. 7, 1942, ch. 161, 56 Stat. 141.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1931Enacted · Act of Feb. 17, 1931, ch. 209 · 46 Stat. 1166
1942Amended · Act of Mar. 7, 1942, ch. 161 · 56 Stat. 141

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 209 on 1931-02-17.

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