Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§410cccc Acquisition of Lands
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–AAA — GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410cccc
Summary
The Secretary must acquire property and improvements by gift, purchase, condemnation, or trade to create the Golden Spike National Historic Site honoring completion of the first transcontinental railroad, using the area shown on the map "Proposed Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah" (Feb. 1963). He may swap federal Utah land for non‑federal land there and use cash to even values.
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Title 16, §410cccc
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The Secretary of the Interior shall acquire on behalf of the United States by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such lands and interest in land, together with any improvements thereon, as the Secretary may deem necessary for the purpose of establishing a national historic site commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States on the site described on a map entitled “Proposed Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah”, prepared by the National Park Service, Southwest Region, dated February 1963. In exercising his authority to acquire property by exchange, the Secretary may accept title to any non-Federal property within the area depicted on such drawing, and in exchange therefor he may convey to the grantor of such property any federally owned property in the State of Utah under his jurisdiction which he classifies as suitable for exchange or other disposal. The properties so exchanged shall be of approximately equal value, but the Secretary may accept cash from, or pay cash to, the grantor in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.
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16 U.S.C. § 410cccc
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102