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[CITE: 16USC273]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
               SUBCHAPTER XXXI--CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 273. Establishment


(a) Description of area

    Subject to valid existing rights, the lands, waters, and interests 
therein within the boundary generally depicted on the map entitled 
``Boundary Map, Proposed Capitol Reef National Park, Utah,'' numbered 
158-91,002, and dated January 1971, are hereby established as the 
Capitol Reef National Park (hereinafter referred to as the ``park''). 
Such map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

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

    The Capitol Reef 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. 92-207, Sec. 1, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 739.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 273a of this title.
