---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 447"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "447"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(d), Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1342"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/447"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# [§447. Repealed. Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(d), Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1342 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act June 13, 1933, ch. 70, 48 Stat. 139, extended mining laws of United States to lands within the park subject to regulation by Secretary of the Interior.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Mining Rights Existing Prior to September 28, 1976

Section 3 of Pub. L. 94–429 provided in part that this section was repealed in order to close area to entry and location under the Mining Law of 1872, subject to valid existing rights.