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[CITE: 16USC410hhh-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
     SUBCHAPTER LIX-FF--GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE
 
Sec. 410hhh-3. Great Sand Dunes National Preserve, Colorado


(a) Establishment of Great Sand Dunes National Preserve

    (1) There is hereby established the Great Sand Dunes National 
Preserve in the State of Colorado, as generally depicted on the map, as 
a unit of the National Park System.
    (2) Administrative jurisdiction of lands and interests therein 
administered by the Secretary of Agriculture within the boundaries of 
the preserve is transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be 
administered as part of the preserve. The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
modify the boundaries of the Rio Grande National Forest to exclude the 
transferred lands from the forest boundaries.
    (3) Any lands within the preserve boundaries which were designated 
as wilderness prior to November 22, 2000, shall remain subject to the 
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and the Colorado Wilderness Act 
of 1993 (Public Law 103-767; 16 U.S.C. 539i note).

(b) Map and legal description

    (1) As soon as practicable after the establishment of the national 
park and the preserve, the Secretary shall file maps and a legal 
description of the national park and the preserve with the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on 
Resources of the House of Representatives.
    (2) The map and legal description shall have the same force and 
effect as if included in this subchapter, except that the Secretary may 
correct clerical and typographical errors in the legal description and 
maps.
    (3) The map and legal description shall be on file and available for 
public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park 
Service.

(c) Boundary survey

    As soon as practicable after the establishment of the national park 
and preserve and subject to the availability of funds, the Secretary 
shall complete an official boundary survey.

(Pub. L. 106-530, Sec. 5, Nov. 22, 2000, 114 Stat. 2529.)

                       References in Text

    The Wilderness Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), 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.
    The Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), 
is Pub. L. 103-77, Aug. 13, 1993, 107 Stat. 756. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 539i of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 410hhh-1 of this title.
