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[CITE: 16USC410mm]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
               SUBCHAPTER LIX-K--GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 410mm. Establishment


(a) Purpose; designation

    In order to preserve for the benefit and inspiration of the people a 
representative segment of the Great Basin of the Western United States 
possessing outstanding resources and significant geological and scenic 
values, there is hereby established the Great Basin National Park 
(hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the ``park'').

(b) Composition; filing of map; public inspection

    The park shall consist of approximately seventy-six thousand acres, 
as depicted on the map entitled ``Boundary Map, Great Basin National 
Park, Nevada,'' numbered NA-GB 20,017, and dated October 1986. The map 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of 
the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and the Office of 
the Superintendent, Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

(c) Filing of legal description; public inspection

    Within 6 months after October 27, 1986, the Secretary of the 
Interior (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the 
``Secretary'') shall file a legal description of the park designated 
under this section with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of 
the United States House of Representatives and with the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. Such 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 such legal description and in the map referred 
to in subsection (a) of this section. The legal description shall be on 
file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior.

(d) Incorporation of Lehman Caves National Monument within park

    (1) The Lehman Caves National Monument, designated on January 24, 
1922, by Presidential proclamation under the authority contained in the 
Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225) [16 U.S.C. 431-433] is hereby 
abolished and the lands incorporated within the Great Basin National 
Park. Any reference in any law, map, regulation, document, record, or 
other paper of the United States to such national monument shall be 
deemed to be a reference to Great Basin National Park.
    (2) Any funds available for purposes of the national monument shall 
be available for purposes of the park.

(Pub. L. 99-565, Sec. 2, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3181.)

                       References in Text

    Act of June 8, 1906, referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is act June 8, 
1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, known as the Antiquities Act of 1906, 
which is classified generally to sections 431, 432, and 433 of this 
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 431 of this title and Tables.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House 
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 99-565 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this 
subchapter] may be known as the `Great Basin National Park Act of 
1986'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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