§262 Total Area; Consent of Congress to Acquisition of Lands and Property and Transfer Thereof to United States

Summary

Set the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park to be at least 6,000 acres and no more than 50,000 acres. Land may be added later as long as the total stays within those limits. The park must not include land inside Middlesboro or Pineville, Kentucky, or Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, if those cities’ officials tell the Secretary of the Interior before the park is established that the land is needed for city expansion. Congress allows Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia to agree to buy the lands, buildings, and other property in the Cumberland Gap–Cumberland Ford areas (see section 261) and transfer ownership to the United States. Congress also keeps the right to change or repeal this law.