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[CITE: 16USC191]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
              SUBCHAPTER XXI--ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 191. Establishment; boundaries; reclamation project

    The tract of land in the State of Colorado particularly described by 
and included within metes and bounds as follows, to wit: Beginning at 
the southeast corner of section 34, township 3 north, range 73 west of 
the sixth principal meridian, Colorado, thence north along the section 
lines to the northeast corner of section 3, said township; thence west 
to the northwest corner of said section; thence north along the section 
lines to the northeast corner of section 16, township 4 north, range 73 
west; thence west to the northwest corner of said section; thence north 
to the northeast corner of section 8, said township; thence west along 
the section lines to the northwest corner of section 7, said township; 
thence north to the northeast corner of township 4 north, range 74 west; 
thence west along the first correction line north, to the southeast 
corner of section 36, township 5 north, range 74 west; thence north 
along the range line to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of 
the southeast quarter of section 13, said township; thence west to the 
northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of 
section 14, said township; thence north to the northwest corner of the 
northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 11, said township; 
thence east to the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of the 
southeast quarter of section 12, said township; thence south along the 
range line to the southeast corner of said section; thence east along 
the section lines to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of 
section 10, township 5 north, range 73 west; thence north to the 
northeast corner of the southwest quarter of said section; thence east 
to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence 
north to the northeast corner of said section; thence east to the 
southeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of 
section 2, said township; thence north to the northeast corner of the 
southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of said section; thence east 
to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of the southwest 
quarter, said section; thence north to the northeast corner of the 
northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of said section; thence east 
to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 1, said 
township; thence north along the range line to the northeast corner of 
section 36, township 7 north, range 73 west; thence west along the 
section lines to the intersection with the west bank of the Big South 
Cache la Poudre River in township 7 north, range 75 west; thence 
southeasterly along the west bank of said river to the mouth of a 
tributary of said river, probably in section 1, township 6 north, range 
75 west; said tributary heading at La Poudre Pass in section 20, 
township 6 north, range 75 west; thence southwesterly along the west 
bank of said tributary to its head; thence across the Continental Divide 
to the headwaters of the North Fork of the Grand River, which also heads 
at La Poudre Pass; thence down the west bank of the North Fork of the 
Grand River to its intersection with the section line between sections 
29 and 30, township 6 north, range 75 west; thence south along the 
section lines to the southeast corner of section 18, township 5 north, 
range 75 west; thence west along the section line to its intersection 
with the west bank of the North Fork of the Grand River; thence down the 
west bank of the North Fork of the Grand River to its intersection with 
the section line between sections 25 and 36, township 4 north, range 76 
west; thence east to the northeast corner of section 36, said township; 
thence south along the range line to the southeast corner of said 
township; thence east along the township line to the northeast corner of 
the northwest quarter of section 4, township 3 north, range 75 west; 
thence south to the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 
9, said township; thence west along the quarter section line to its 
intersection with a creek in section 7, said township, this creek being 
an outlet of Grand Lake, and flowing into the North Fork of the Grand 
River; thence southerly along the said creek to its junction with the 
North Fork of the Grand River; thence southerly along the west bank of 
the North Fork of the Grand River to its intersection with the township 
line between townships 2 and 3 north; thence east along the township 
line to the southeast corner of section 34, township 3 north, range 73 
west of the sixth principal meridian, Colorado, the place of beginning, 
is reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or disposal under 
the laws of the United States, and is dedicated and set apart as a 
public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United 
States, under the name of the Rocky Mountain National Park. The United 
States Reclamation service may enter upon and utilize for flowage or 
other purposes any area within said park which may be necessary for the 
development and maintenance of a Government reclamation project.

(Jan. 26, 1915, ch. 19, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 798.)

                          Codification

    A statement in this section as originally enacted that the tract 
described was then a part of certain counties in Colorado has been 
omitted as historically obsolete.


                Additions to Rocky Mountain National Park

    The following provisions authorized the addition of lands to Rocky 
Mountain National Park:
    Pub. L. 104-158, Sec. 2(b)(1), July 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 1406.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 193, 194, 197 of this title.
