Title 16 of the U.S. Code § 119a - Boundaries
Full text of § 119a from Title 16 of the United States Code.
§ 119a. Boundaries
The Petrified Forest National Park, authorized to be established pursuant to section 119 of this title, shall comprise the following described lands:
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Township 20 north, range 23 east: Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, 36, all.
Township 20 north, range 24 east: All.
Township 20 north, range 25 east: Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, all.
Township 19 north, range 23 east: Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, all.
Township 19 north, range 24 east: Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, all; section 11, northwest quarter and north half northeast quarter; sections 16, 17, 18, 21, 28, 33, all.
Township 18 north, range 24 east: Sections 4, 9, all; section 10, southwest quarter; sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, all.
Township 17 north, range 24 east: Sections 2, 11, 14, 23, 26, west halves; sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, all.
Township 17 north, range 23 east: Sections 34, 35, 36, all.
Township 16 north, range 24 east: Sections 3 and 10, west halves; sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, all.
Township 16 north, range 23 east: Sections 1, 2, 11, 12, all; sections 3, 10, east halves.
Township 19 north, range 24 east: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27.
(Pub. L. 85–358, §2, Mar. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 69; Pub. L. 99–250, §1, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 13.)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1986—Pub. L. 99–250 inserted "Township 19 north, range 24 east: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27."
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1986 Amendment
Pub. L. 99–250, §2, Feb. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 13, provided that: "The provisions of this Act [amending this section] shall not take effect until the Secretary of the Interior determines that fee simple title to the property described in section 1 has vested in the United States. Such determination of the Secretary shall be published in the Federal Register."
SUBCHAPTER XIV—CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK
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