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[CITE: 16USC410aaa-21]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
      SUBCHAPTER LIX-Y--CALIFORNIA DESERT LANDS PARKS AND PRESERVE
 
                    Part B--Joshua Tree National Park
 
Sec. 410aaa-21. Findings

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) a proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 
    established Joshua Tree National Monument to protect various objects 
    of historical and scientific interest;
        (2) Joshua Tree National Monument today is recognized as a major 
    unit of the National Park System, having extraordinary values 
    enjoyed by millions of visitors;
        (3) the monument boundaries as modified in 1950 and 1961 exclude 
    and thereby expose to incompatible development and inconsistent 
    management, contiguous Federal lands of essential and superlative 
    natural, ecological, archeological, paleontological, cultural, 
    historical, and wilderness values;
        (4) Joshua Tree National Monument should be enlarged by the 
    addition of contiguous Federal lands of national park caliber, and 
    afforded full recognition and statutory protection as a National 
    Park; and
        (5) the nondesignated wilderness within Joshua Tree should 
    receive statutory protection by designation pursuant to the 
    Wilderness Act [16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.].

(Pub. L. 103-433, title IV, Sec. 401, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4487.)

                       References in Text

    The Wilderness Act, referred to in par. (5), is Pub. L. 88-577, 
Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 890, as amended, which is classified generally 
to chapter 23 (Sec. 1131 et seq.) of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1131 of this title and Tables.
