---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450aa–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450aa–1"
heading: "Establishment and supervision"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450aa-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450aa–1. Establishment and supervision


The property acquired under the provisions of [section 450aa of this title](/usc/16/450aa.md) shall constitute the George Washington Carver National Monument and shall be a public national [memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) to George Washington Carver. The Director of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, under the direction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of such national monument, and shall maintain and [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) it in a suitable and enduring manner which, in his judgment, will provide for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1943, ch. 238, § 2, 57 Stat. 563.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.