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

# §410zz. Findings and purpose


The Congress finds that—

- (1) the Saguaro National Monument was established by Presidential Proclamation in 1933;
- (2) the Tucson Mountain [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) was established by Presidential Proclamation in 1961;
- (3) in recognition of the need to provide increased protection for the monument, the boundaries of Tucson Mountain [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) were expanded in 1976, and the boundaries of Rincon [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) were expanded in 1991;
- (4) the Tucson Mountain [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) continues to face threats to the integrity of its natural resources, scenic beauty, and habitat protection for which the [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) was established;
- (5) these threats impede opportunities for public enjoyment, education, and safety within the monument, as well as opportunities for solitude within the [wilderness](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13) [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of the monument designated by Congress in 1976;
- (6) the residential and commercial growth of the greater Tucson, Arizona metropolitan [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) is causing increasing threats to the monument’s resources; and
- (7) the Tucson Mountain [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) should be enlarged by the [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) of adjacent lands of National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) caliber and Saguaro National Monument should be afforded full recognition and statutory protection as a National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–364, § 2, Oct. 14, 1994, 108 Stat. 3467.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 2020 Amendment

Pub. L. 116–260, div. FF, title II, § 201(a), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 3088, provided that: “This section [amending section 410zz–2 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Saguaro National Park Boundary Expansion Act’.”

### Short Title

Pub. L. 103–364, § 1, Oct. 14, 1994, 108 Stat. 3467, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter and amending provisions listed in a table of National Monuments Established Under Presidential Proclamation set out under section 431 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Saguaro National Park Establishment Act of 1994’.”