---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–23"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–23"
heading: "Transfer and administration of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-23"
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 B — Joshua Tree National Park"
---

# §410aaa–23. Transfer and administration of lands


On October 31, 1994, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall transfer the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management depicted on the [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) described in [section 410aaa–22 of this title](/usc/16/410aaa–22.md), without consideration, to the administrative jurisdiction of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service for administration as part of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System. The boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be adjusted accordingly. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall administer the [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) added to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by this part in accordance with the provisions of law generally applicable to [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System, including the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; [16 U.S.C. 1](/usc/16/1.md), 2–4).[^1]


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title IV, § 403, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4488.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2–4), referred to in text, is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.