---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "403g"
heading: "Establishment; minimum area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/403g"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVI — Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
---

# §403g. Establishment; minimum area


An [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of four hundred thousand acres within the minimum boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), acquired one-half by the peoples and [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of North Carolina and Tennessee, and the United States, and one-half by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller, is established as a completed [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for administration, protection, and development by the United States.


## Source credit

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