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title: "16 U.S.C. § 403g"
description: "Establishment; minimum area"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
section: "403g"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403g"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 403g - Establishment; minimum area

## Text

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.

(June 15, 1934, ch. 538, § 1, 48 Stat. 964.)