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[CITE: 16USC441a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 441a. Boundaries

    The areas to be included in said Badlands National Park are situated 
in the State of South Dakota and lie within the boundaries particularly 
described as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner section 13, 
township 3 south, range 18 east, Black Hills meridian; thence west one-
fourth mile; thence south one mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence 
south one-fourth mile; thence west one mile; thence south one-fourth 
mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one mile; thence west 
one and one-fourth miles; thence north one-half mile; thence west three 
miles, to the northwest corner section 18, township 3 south, range 18 
east, Black Hills meridian.
    Thence north one-fourth mile; thence west one-half mile; thence 
north one-fourth mile; thence west three-fourth mile; thence south one-
fourth mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth mile; 
thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth mile; thence west 
three-fourths mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence west one-half 
mile; thence south one-half mile; thence west one mile; thence north 
one-fourth mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth 
mile; thence west one and one-fourth miles; thence north one-fourth 
mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north three-fourths mile; 
thence west one and one-fourth miles; thence north one-half mile, to the 
northeast corner section 2, township 3 south, range 16 east, Black Hills 
meridian.
    Thence west one-half mile; thence north one mile; thence west one-
fourth mile; thence north one-half mile; thence west three-fourths mile; 
thence north one-half mile; thence west one-half mile; thence north two 
miles; thence west eight miles; thence south one-half mile; thence west 
one mile; thence north one-half mile, to the northeast corner section 
13, township 2 south, range 14 east, Black Hills meridian.
    Thence west one mile; thence south one mile; thence east one-half 
mile; thence south one-half mile; thence west one-half mile; thence 
south two and one-half miles; thence east one and one-fourth miles; 
thence south one mile; thence east three-fourths mile, to the northeast 
corner section 7, township 3 south, range 15 east, Black Hills meridian.
    Thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence 
south one-half mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence south one-
fourth mile; thence west one mile; thence south one and three-fourths 
miles; thence east one mile; thence north three-fourths mile; thence 
east two miles; thence north one-half mile; thence east three-fourths 
mile; thence north one-fourth mile; thence east one-half mile; thence 
north three-fourths mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north 
three-fourths mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth 
mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth mile; thence 
east one-fourth mile; thence north one-half mile; thence east one mile; 
thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one and three-fourths miles; 
thence north one-half mile; thence west one-half mile; thence north one-
half mile, to the northwest corner section 31, township 2 south, range 
16 east, Black Hills meridian.
    Thence east one-half mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east 
one mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one and three-
fourths miles; thence south three-fourths mile; thence east three-
fourths mile; thence south three-fourths mile; thence east one-half 
mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence 
south one-fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-
fourth mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-fourth mile; 
thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east 
one-half mile; thence south one and one-fourth miles; thence east three-
fourths mile; thence north one-half mile; thence east one-fourth mile, 
to the northeast corner section 19, township 3 south, range 17 east, 
Black Hills meridian.
    Thence north one-half mile; thence east three-fourths mile; thence 
south two miles; thence east one and one-half miles; thence north one 
and one-half miles; thence east two miles; thence south one-fourth mile; 
thence east one-fourth mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east 
one-half mile; thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-half mile; 
thence south one-fourth mile; thence east one-half mile, to the 
northeast corner section 30, township 3 south, range 18 east, Black 
Hills meridian.
    Thence south three-fourths mile; thence east one-fourth mile; thence 
south one-fourth mile; thence east one-half mile; thence north one-
fourth mile; thence east one and one-fourth miles; thence south one-
fourth mile; thence east three miles, to the northeast corner of section 
36, township 3 south, range 18 east, Black Hills meridian.
    Thence north one mile; thence east one mile; thence north one-half 
mile; thence west one-fourth mile; thence north one-fourth mile; thence 
west one-fourth mile; thence north one and one-fourth miles; thence west 
one-half mile to the point of beginning.

(Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 693, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 1554; Pub. L. 95-625, title VI, 
Sec. 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Park'' substituted for ``Monument'' in first undesignated par. 
pursuant to Pub. L. 95-625, Sec. 611, which is classified to section 
441e-1 of this title and which redesignated Badlands National Monument 
as Badlands National Park.


                         Extension of Boundaries

    Act June 26, 1936, ch. 842, title II, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1979, 
provided that the boundaries of the Badlands National Monument as 
established by this section shall be ``extended to include such lands 
adjacent or contiguous thereto, in the State of South Dakota, including, 
but not being restricted to, lands designated as submarginal by the 
Resettlement Administration, as may be determined by the President, by 
proclamation, within five years following the approval of this Act, to 
be necessary for the proper rounding out of the boundaries of said 
Monument or the administration thereof, providing the entire area of 
such Monument shall not exceed 250,000 acres.''


                             Laws Applicable

    The provisions of sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title were made 
applicable to the above added lands by act June 26, 1936, ch. 842, title 
II, Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1979.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 441e of this title.
