An Act to establish the Capitol Reef National Park in the State of Utah
PL 92-207 (S.29), enacted 12/18/1971

85 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 92-207-DEC. 18, 1971 
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(b) The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the 
number of persons eligible for per capitas and the number of persons 
rejected for per capitas who have taken a timely appeal. The shares 
of those persons whose appeals are denied shall revert to the Shoshone-
Bannock Tribes to be expended for any purpose designated by the 
tribal governing body and approved bjr the Secretary. 
(c) Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less 
than twenty-one years of age or who are under a legal disability shall 
be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establish-
ment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior determines appropriate 
to protect the best interests of such persons. 
(d) The funds remaining after provision is made for the per capita 
distribution may be used, advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested 
for any purpose authorized by the tribal governing body and approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 8. The funds apportioned to the Shoshone Tribe of the Wind 
River Reservation shall be placed to its credit in the United States 
Treasury and shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions of 
the Act of May 19,1947, as amended (61 Stat. 102; 25 U.S.C. 611-613). 
SEC. 9. Any funds distributed per capita under provisions of this 
Act shall not be subject to Federal or State income tax. 
SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules 
and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Approved December 18, 1971. 
Shoshone Tribe 
of Wind River 
Reservation. 
72 Stat. 541. 
Tax exemption. 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
Public Law 92-207 
AN ACT 
To establish the Capitol Reef National Park in the State of Utah. 
December 18, 1971 
[S. 29] 
He it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representative's 
of the 
Vnlted States of America in Congress as.semhled^ That (a) subject to 
valid existing rights, the lands, Avaters. and interests therein within the 
boundary generally depicted on the map entitled "Boundary Map, 
l^roposed Capitol Reef Xational Park. L^tah," numbered 158-91,002, 
and dated January 1971, are hereb}' established as the Capitol Reef 
Xational Park (hereinafter referred to as the "park"). Such map shall 
1)e (m file and available for public inspection in the offices of the 
Xational Park Service, Department of the Interior. 
(b) The Capitol Reef Xational Monument is herebj- abolished, and 
any funds available for purposes of the monument shall be avail-
able for purposes of the park. Federal lands, waters, and interests 
therein excluded from the monument by this Act shall be administered 
by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Sec-
retary") in accordance with the laws applicable to tlie public lands of 
the United States. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized to ac(iuire by donation, purchase 
with donated or appropriated fluids, transfer from any Federal 
agency, exchange, or otherwise, the lands and interests in lands 
(lescribed in the first section of this Act, except that lands or interests 
therein owned by the State of Utah, or any political subdivision 
thereof, may be acquired only with the approval of such State or 
political subdivision. 
Capitol Reef 
National Park, 
Utah. 
Establishment. 
Land acquisi-
tion. 
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Grazing priv-
ileges. 
. Livestock 
trails, watering 
rights. 
Administration. 
Rights-of-way. 
Report to Presi-
dent. 
Roads, study. 
Report to 
Congress. 
Appropriation. 
SEC. 3. Where any Federal lands inclnded within tlie park are 
legally occupied or utilized on the date of approval of this Act for 
<irazing purposes, pursuant to a lease, permit, or license for a fixed 
term of years issued or authorized by any department, establishment, 
or ag-ency of the L'nited States, the Secretaiy of the Interior shall per-
mit the pei"Sons holding such grazing privileges or their heirs to con-
tinue in the exercise thereof during the term of the lease, permit, or 
license, and one period of renewal thereafter. 
SEC. 4. Xothing in this Act shall be construed as alfecting in any 
way rights of owners and operators of cattle and sheep herds, existing 
on the date immediately prior to the enactment of this Act, to trail 
their herds on traditional courses used by them prior to such date of 
enactment, and to water their stock, notwithstanding the fact that the 
lands involving such trails and watering are situated within the park: 
Provided^ That the Secretary may promulgate reasonable regulations 
providing for the use of such driveways. 
SEC. 5. (a) The National Park Service, under the direction of the 
Secretary, shall administer, protect, and develop the park, subject to 
the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a National 
Park Service, and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 
(39 Stat. 535) as amended and supplemented (16 U.S.C. 1-4). 
(b) The Secretary shall grant easements and rights-of-way on a 
nondiscriminatory basis upon, over, under, across, or along any compo-
nent of the park area unless he finds that the route of such easements 
and rights-of-way would have significant adverse effects on the 
administration of the park. 
(c) Within three years from the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall report to the President, in accordance 
with subsections 3(c) and 3(d) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 
16 U.S.C. 1132 (c) and (d)), his recommendations as to the suitability 
or nonsuitability of any area within the park for preservation as 
wilderness, and any designation of any such area as a wilderness shall 
be in accordance with said Wilderness Act. 
SEC. 6. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with appropriate Federal 
departments and appropriate agencies of the State and its political 
subdivisions shall conduct a study of proposed road alinements within 
and adjacent to the park. Such study shall consider what roads are 
appropriate and necessary for full utilization of the area for the pur-
poses of this Act as well as to connect with roads of ingress and egress 
to the area. 
(b) A report of the findings and conclusions of the Secretary shall 
be submitted to the Congress within tw^o years of the date of enactment 
of this Act, including recommendations for such further legislation 
as may be necessary to implement the findings and conclusions devel-
oped from the study. 
SEC. 7. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not to 
exceed, however, $423,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in 
lands and not to exceed $1,052,700 (April 1970 prices) for develop-
ment, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason 
of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engi-
neering cost indexes applicable to the types of construction involved 
herein. The sums authorized in this section shall be available for 
acquisition and development undertaken subsequent to the approval 
of this Act. 
Approved December 18, 1971.