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title: "54 U.S.C. § 100301"
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title_number: 54
title_name: "NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND RELATED PROGRAMS"
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# 54 U.S.C. § 100301 - Establishment

## Text

There is in the Department of the Interior a service called the National Park Service.

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3097.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10030116 U.S.C. 1 (1st sentence words before 1st comma).Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, § 1 (1st sentence words before 1st comma), 39 Stat. 535.