---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410nnn"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410nnn"
heading: "Findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410nnn"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–LL — Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park"
---

# §410nnn. Findings


The Congress finds that:

- (1) The study conducted by the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service under section 506(b) of Public Law 95–625 has resulted in a precise identification of the location of the Battle of Palo Alto and the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) requiring protection.
- (2) Palo Alto is the only [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System directed to the preservation and interpretation of resources related to the Mexican-American War.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–304, § 2, June 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 256.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 506(b) of Pub. L. 95–625, referred to in par. (1), is set out as a note under section 410nnn–1 of this title.

### Codification

This subchapter is comprised of Pub. L. 102–304. Pub. L. 102–304 is also listed in a table of National Historic Sites set out under section 320101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 102–304, § 1, June 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 256, as amended by Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7113(a)(3)(A), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1201, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Act of 1991’.”

### Designation of Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7113(a)(1), (2), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1201, provided that: In general.—The Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site shall be known and designated as the ‘Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park’. References.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the historic site referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park.”