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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§423h–2 Acquisition of Lands; Publication in Federal Register; Administration

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 423h–2

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may add up to 1,200 acres at the Battle of Five Forks to the Petersburg National Battlefield. He can acquire the land by purchase with donated or government funds, by exchange, transfer, or other ways he finds in the public interest. Once he publishes a description in the Federal Register, the land becomes part of the Petersburg National Battlefield and will be managed by the Secretary under the National Park Service law of August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1–3), including any later changes.

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Title 16, §423h–2

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The Secretary of the Interior, in furtherance of the purposes of section 423, 423a, and 423b to 423h of this title referred to in section 423h–1 of this title, may acquire by purchase with donated or appropriated funds, exchange, transfer, or by such other means as he deems to be in the public interest, not to exceed twelve hundred acres of land or interests in land at the site of the Battle of Five Forks for addition to the Petersburg National Battlefield. Lands and interests in lands acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this section shall, upon publication of a description thereof in the Federal Register, become a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield, and thereafter shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2, 3), as amended and supplemented.

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The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2, 3), referred to in text, is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, known as the National Park Service Organic Act, which enacted section 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and provisions set out as a note under section 100101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. Sections 1 to 4 of the Act were repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54 by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

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16 U.S.C. § 423h–2

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110