---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 80a–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "80a–1"
heading: "Lands excluded from Kings Canyon National Park and added to Sequoia National Forest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/80a-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Kings Canyon National Park"
---

# §80a–1. Lands excluded from Kings Canyon National Park and added to Sequoia National Forest


For the purpose of improving the boundary of Kings Canyon National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), California, and excluding therefrom certain land that is no longer needed for [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) purposes, that particular [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), comprising approximately 160 acres, lying west of the section line between sections [21](/usc/16/21.md) and [22](/usc/16/22.md), and lying west of the section line between sections 27 and 28, township 13 south, range 30 east, Mount Diablo meridian, is excluded from the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).

Land excluded from the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by this section on and after August 14, 1958 shall be a part of the Sequoia National Forest.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–666, § 1, Aug. 14, 1958, 72 Stat. 616.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, 54 Stat. 41, which comprises this subchapter.