---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 346a–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "346a–6"
heading: "Transfer of administrative jurisdiction to National Park Service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/346a-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXXVIII — Zion National Park"
---

# §346a–6. Transfer of administrative jurisdiction to National Park Service


Administrative jurisdiction over the land identified as the Watchman [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) on the Northeastern Washington County [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) is hereby transferred to the National [Park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) Service, to be included in, and administered as part of Zion National [Park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title I, § 1972(d), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1080.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definition

For definition of “Northeastern Washington County Wilderness Map”, see section 1971 of Pub. L. 111–11, set out as a note under section 460www of this title.