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[CITE: 16USC47-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
 
Sec. 47-1. Administrative site for Yosemite National Park


(a) Establishment of site

    To enable the Secretary of the Interior to preserve the 
extraordinary natural qualities of Yosemite National Park, 
notwithstanding its increasing use by the public, the Secretary is 
hereby authorized to provide in the manner hereinafter set forth an 
administrative site in the El Portal area adjacent to Yosemite National 
Park, in order that utilities, facilities, and services required in the 
operation and administration of Yosemite National Park may be located on 
such site outside the park.

(b) Acquisition of land

    For said site the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire 
by purchase or donation, or with donated funds, approximately twelve 
hundred acres, as shown on map numbered NP-YOS-7011, of non-Federal 
land, interests in land, and appurtenances thereto, and, to avoid 
severing parcels in private ownership which extend beyond the area so 
depicted, the Secretary of the Interior may acquire in their entirety 
such parcels of land or interests therein.

(c) Transfers of jurisdiction

    The Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior are authorized to 
arrange and effect mutually satisfactory transfers of jurisdiction over 
land administered by each in the El Portal area. Land so transferred to 
the Secretary of the Interior shall thereupon be excluded from the 
national forest or forests involved and thereafter be administered by 
the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to this section as a part of said 
administrative site. Land transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture 
pursuant to this section shall thereupon become national forest land 
subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to land acquired 
pursuant to the Week's law.

(d) Pre-existing claim, location, or entry

    Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid claim, location, or 
entry existing under the land laws of the United States, or the rights 
of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment 
of his land.

(e) Status of acquired land

    Until further action by the Congress, the lands acquired by or 
transferred to the Secretary of the Interior hereunder shall not become 
a part of Yosemite National Park, nor be subject to the laws and 
regulations governing said park, but the Secretary of the Interior shall 
have supervision, management, and control of the area and shall make and 
publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper 
for its use and management: Provided, That he may grant nonexclusive 
privileges, leases, and permits for the use of land in the area and 
enter into contracts relating to the same, subject to the limitations 
and conditions applying to the similar authority provided in section 3 
of this title.

(f) Availability of funds

    Funds now or hereafter appropriated or otherwise available for 
operating and capital programs in the areas administered by the National 
Park Service, including funds for acquisition of land and interests in 
land, are made available to acquire land, interests in land, and 
appurtenances thereto, within the administrative site, and to further 
the purpose of this section.

(Pub. L. 85-922, Secs. 1-6, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1772.)

                       References in Text

    Week's law, referred to in subsec. (c), is act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 
186, 36 Stat. 961, which is classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 
521, 552 and 563 of this title. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 552 of this 
title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Subsecs. (a) to (f) are based on sections 1 to 6, respectively, of 
Pub. L. 85-922.


        Land Exchange, El Portal Administrative Site, California

    Pub. L. 105-363, Sec. 4, Nov. 6, 1998, 112 Stat. 3298, authorized 
transfer from the United States of land within the El Portal 
Administrative Site to party conveying to United States an adjacent 
property known as the Yosemite View parcel, and provided for 
equalization of values of Federal and non-Federal lands, applicability 
of other laws to the exchange, boundary adjustment, map, and additional 
terms and conditions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 47-2 of this title.
