16 USC § 403g - Establishment; minimum area
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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s403g"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 403g - Establishment; minimum area"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "403g"
section_name: "Establishment; minimum area"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "XLVI"
subchapter_name: "SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 15, 1934, ch. 538, § 1, 48 Stat. 964.)"
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# § 403g. Establishment; minimum area
An area of four hundred thousand acres within the minimum boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, acquired one-half by the peoples and States of North Carolina and Tennessee, and the United States, and one-half by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller, is established as a completed park for administration, protection, and development by the United States.
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**Source Credit**: (June 15, 1934, ch. 538, § 1, 48 Stat. 964.)