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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§460ff–2 Land acquisition plan

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XC— - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK › § 460ff–2

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within one year after December 27, 1974, the Secretary must send a written plan to Congress’s Interior and Insular Affairs committees and to the Appropriations committees. The plan must say which lands are needed to protect and let the public enjoy the park; list lands already obtained (by purchase, donation, exchange, or transfer); and give a recommended annual land‑buying program, including funding, for the next five fiscal years. Congress intended that the Secretary substantially complete that land‑acquisition program within six years after December 27, 1974.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460ff–2

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(a)Within one year after December 27, 1974, the Secretary shall submit, in writing, to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and to the Committees on Appropriations of the United States Congress a detailed plan which shall indicate:
(i)the lands and areas which he deems essential to the protection and public enjoyment of this park,
(ii)the lands which he has previously acquired by purchase, donation, exchange, or transfer for the purpose of this park, and
(iii)the annual acquisition program (including the level of funding) which he recommends for the ensuing five fiscal years.
(b)It is the express intent of the Congress that the Secretary should substantially complete the land acquisition program contemplated by this subchapter within six years after December 27, 1974.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2000—Subsec. (a)(i), (ii). Pub. L. 106–291 substituted “park” for “recreation area”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate abolished and replaced by Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, effective Feb. 11, 1977. See Rule XXV of Standing Rules of the Senate, as amended by Senate Resolution No. 4 (popularly cited as the “Committee System Reorganization

Amendments

of 1977”), approved Feb. 4, 1977. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Third Congress.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460ff–2

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73