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NPS Sites Authorized this Decade: 35
NPS Sites Deauthorized: 2
NPS Sites Authorized to Date: 355

1980 through 1989
July 1, 1980 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial, District of Columbia (authorized; dedicated 1982)
September 8, 1980 - Georgia O'Keeffe NHS, NM (deauthorized 1983)
September 9, 1980 - USS Arizona Memorial, HI (management passed to NPS by U.S. Navy under cooperative agreement)
October 10, 1980 - Martin Luther King, Junior, NHS, GA

December 2, 1980 - Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)
Aniakchak NPres, AK
Denali NPres, AK
Gates of the Arctic NPres, AK
Glacier Bay NPres, AK
Katmai NPres, AK
Lake Clark NPres, AK
Wrangell-St. Elias NPres, AK
Alagnak Wild River, AK

December 22, 1980 - Kalaupapa NHP, HI
December 28, 1980 - James A. Garfield NHS, OH
December 28, 1980 - Women's Rights NHP, NY
March 28, 1983 - Natchez Trace NST, MS-AL-TN
March 28, 1983 - Potomac Heritage NST, DC-VA-PA
May 23, 1983 - Harry S. Truman NHS, MO
October 21, 1986 - Steamtown NHS, PA (authorized as an affiliated area; became NPS unit in 1988)
December 31, 1987 - El Malpais NM, NM
February 16, 1988 - Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, FL
June 27, 1988 - San Francisco Maritime NHP, CA (formerly part of Golden Gate NRA)
September 8, 1988 - Charles Pinckney NHS, SC
October 7, 1988 - Natchez NHP, MS
October 10, 1980 Boston African-American NHS, MA
October 26, 1988 - Bluestone NSR, WV
October 26, 1988 - Gauley River NRA, WV
October 31, 1988 - Pverty Point NM, LA
October 31, 1988 - Zuni-Cibola NHP, NM (lease with Zuni tribe expired Oct 31, 1994)
October 31, 1988 - The National Park of American Samoa
November 18, 1988 - City of Rocks NRes, ID
November 18, 1988 - Hagerman Fossil Beds NM, ID
November 18, 1988 - Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
October 2, 1989 - Ulysses S. Grant NHS, Missouri