---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–1"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–Y — California Desert Lands Parks, Preserve, and Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Areas"
  - "Part A — Death Valley National Park"
---

# §410aaa–1. Establishment


There is hereby established the Death Valley National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) (hereinafter in this part referred to as the “[park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)”) as generally depicted on twenty-three [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Death Valley National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Boundary and [Wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13)—Proposed”, numbered in the title one through twenty-three, and dated July 1993 or prior, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Superintendent of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and the Director of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior. The Death Valley National Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and interests therein are hereby incorporated within and made part of the new Death Valley National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and any funds available for purposes of the monument shall be available for purposes of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title III, § 302, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4485.)