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Rainbow Bridge
Administrative History |
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APPENDIX 1:
IMPORTANT EVENTS
| 1906 | Antiquities Act, sponsoring the national monuments, becomes law. |
| 1909 | August: John Wetherill, Byron L. Cummings, and W.B. Douglass reach Rainbow Bridge. |
| 1910 | May: Monument declared. John Wetherill assigned as Custodian (shared duty with Navajo National Monument). |
| 1933 | First year of Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley survey. |
| 1955 | Visitation to Rainbow Bridge exceeds 1,000 people. |
| 1956 | Mission 66 first funded by Congress. March: President Eisenhower signs the Colorado River Storage Project Act. October: construction of Glen Canyon Dam begins. |
| 1956 | Memorandum of Agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation and NPS. |
| 1958 | Secretary of the Interior establishes Glen Canyon Recreation Area and designates NPS the administering Agency. Congress passes P.L. 85-868, transferring lands between NPS and the Navajo Nation. |
| 1963 | January: BOR closes the gates of the west bank diversion tunnel at Glen Canyon Dam. Lake Powell begins to fill.March: the east bank diversion tunnel gates close, marking the official birth of Lake Powell. |
| 1964 | Administrative and operational control of Rainbow Bridge National Monument transfers to Superintendent of Glen Canyon Recreation Area. |
| 1965 | Visitation to Rainbow Bridge exceeds 10,000 people. NPS installs
the first floating dock facility in Aztec Creek. May: Memorandum of Agreement with the Navajo Nation is signed. Lake Powell water enters the monument. Visitors can boat to within sight of the bridge. |
| 1972 | Congress passes P.L. 92-593, establishing Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. |
| 1974 | Jim Mike returns to Rainbow Bridge. Navajo singers sue NPS over Lake Powell waters inundating lower Bridge Canyon. |
| 1978 | Native American Religious Freedom Act becomes law. |
| 1980 | Visitation to Rainbow Bridge exceeds 100,000 people. |
| 1985 | Bureau of Reclamation concludes that Lake Powell is not contributing to any structural impairment of Rainbow Bridge. |
| 1989 | Rainbow Bridge National Monument nominated (although never designated) as a World Heritage Site. |
| 1993 | General Management Plan finalized. |
| 1994 | Hearth excavated at foot of Rainbow Bridge, dated approximately 600 A.D. |
| 1995 | Protectors of the Rainbow occupy the monument. Programmatic Agreement signed, creating the Native American Consultation Committee. |
| 1996 | Executive Order 13007, the Indian Sacred Sites proclamation. |
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