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[CITE: 16USC272]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                  SUBCHAPTER XXX--ARCHES NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 272. Establishment of park


(a) In general

                       (1) Initial boundaries

        Subject to valid existing rights, the lands, waters, and 
    interests therein within the boundary generally depicted on the map 
    entitled ``Boundary Map, Proposed Arches National Park, Utah,'' 
    numbered RPSSC-138-20, 001E and dated September 1969, are hereby 
    established as the Arches National Park (hereinafter referred to as 
    the ``park'').

                       (2) Expanded boundaries

        Effective on October 30, 1998, the boundary of the park shall 
    include the area consisting of approximately 3,140 acres and known 
    as the ``Lost Spring Canyon Addition'', as depicted on the map 
    entitled ``Boundary Map, Arches National Park, Lost Spring Canyon 
    Addition'', numbered 138/60,000-B, and dated April 1997.

                              (3) Maps

        The maps described in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be on file 
    and available for public inspection in the offices of the National 
    Park Service, Department of the Interior.

(b) Abolition of Arches National Monument; funds of monument available 
        for park; administration of lands excluded from monument

    The Arches National Monument is hereby abolished, and any funds 
available for purposes of the monument shall be available for purposes 
of the park. Federal lands, waters, and interests therein excluded from 
the monument by this subchapter shall be administered by the Secretary 
of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the ``Secretary'') in 
accordance with the laws applicable to the public lands of the United 
States.

(Pub. L. 92-155, Sec. 1, Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 422; Pub. L. 105-329, 
Sec. 2(a), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 3060.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-329 inserted section designation and catchline and 
in subsec. (a) inserted subsec. heading, inserted par. (1) designation 
and heading before first sentence, added par. (2), inserted par. (3) 
designation and heading before second sentence and substituted ``The 
maps described in paragraphs (1) and (2)'' for ``Such map''.


                      Short Title of 1998 Amendment

    Pub. L. 105-329, Sec. 1, Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 3060, provided 
that: ``This Act [enacting section 272g of this title, amending this 
section and sections 272a, 272b, and 272d of this title, and enacting 
provisions set out as a note under section 272g of this title] may be 
cited as the `Arches National Park Expansion Act of 1998'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 272a of this title.
