---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460dd"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460dd"
heading: "Establishment; boundaries; publication in Federal Register"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460dd"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXVIII — Glen Canyon National Recreation Area"
---

# §460dd. Establishment; boundaries; publication in Federal Register

- (a) In order to provide for public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of Lake Powell and lands adjacent thereto in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of Arizona and Utah and to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) scenic, scientific, and historic features contributing to public enjoyment of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), there is established the Glen Canyon National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) (hereafter referred to as the “recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”) to comprise the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) generally depicted on the drawing entitled “Boundary [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) Glen Canyon National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A),” numbered GLC–91,006 and dated August 1972, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office 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 (hereafter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)”) may revise the boundaries of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) from time to time by publication in the Federal Register of a revised drawing or other boundary description, but the total acreage of the national recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) may not exceed 1,256,000 acres.
- (b) In [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the boundary change authority under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) approximately 152 acres of private land in exchange for approximately 370 acres of land within the boundary of Glen Canyon National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), as generally depicted on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Page One Land Exchange Proposal”, number 608/60573a–2002, and dated May 16, 2002. The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service. Upon conclusion of the exchange, the boundary of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be revised to reflect the exchange.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–593, § 1, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1311; Pub. L. 108–43, § 2, July 1, 2003, 117 Stat. 841.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–43 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted “1,256,000 acres” for “one million two hundred and thirty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty acres”, and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 2003 Amendment

Pub. L. 108–43, § 1, July 1, 2003, 117 Stat. 841, provided that: “This Act [amending this section] may be cited as the ‘Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Boundary Revision Act’.”