---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 397a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "397a"
heading: "Establishment; notice in Federal Register"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/397a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLIII — Puʻuhonua O Ho̅naunau National Historical Park"
---

# §397a. Establishment; notice in Federal Register


Upon the vesting of title in the United States to such lands as may be designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior as necessary and suitable for historical [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) purposes in accordance with the provisions of [section 397 of this title](/usc/16/397.md), the Puʻuhonua o Ho̅naunau National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be established by order of the said [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), which shall be published in the Federal Register. Any other lands within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) described above shall become a part of the national historical [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) upon the vesting of title thereto in the United States and upon publication of an appropriate supplemental order by the said [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) in the Federal Register.


## Source credit

(July 26, 1955, ch. 385, § 2, 69 Stat. 379; Pub. L. 95–625, title III, § 305, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3477; Pub. L. 106–510, § 3(d)(1), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2364.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–510 substituted “Puʻuhonua o Ho̅naunau National Historical Park” for “Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park”.

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 redesignated as “Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park” the park previously designated “City of Refuge National Historical Park”.