---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 441j"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "441j"
heading: "Revision of boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/441j"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §441j. Revision of boundaries


In order to include lands of outstanding scenic and scientific character in the Badlands National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) are revised as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Badlands National Monument”, numbered NM–BL–7021B, dated August 1967, which is on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may make minor adjustments in the boundaries, but the total acreage in the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) may not exceed the acreage within the boundaries depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to herein. Lands within the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) that are acquired by the United States shall be subject to the laws and regulations applicable to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–468, § 1, Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 663; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Words “Park” and “park” substituted in text for “Monument” and “monument”, respectively, pursuant to Pub. L. 95–625, § 611, which is classified to section 441e–1 of this title and which redesignated Badlands National Monument as Badlands National Park.