---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–24"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–24"
heading: "Maps and legal description"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-24"
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–24. Maps and legal description


Within six months after October 31, 1994, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall file [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal[^1] description of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives. Such [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this part, except that the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may correct clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1). The [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “a legal”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title IV, § 404, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4488.)