Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§430bb Determination of Desirable Areas
Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LX— NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 430bb
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior must examine the Pea Ridge Battlefield and decide which parts should be added to the Pea Ridge National Military Park. The areas chosen must lie within the specific sections of townships 20 and 21 north, ranges 28 and 29 west, Fifth Principal Meridian as listed in the law, and the Secretary may include up to twenty acres of nearby land if needed to carry out sections 430aa to 430ee.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §430bb
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make an examination of the Pea Ridge Battlefield with a view to determining the area or areas thereof deemed desirable for inclusion in the Pea Ridge National Military Park and which—except for not more than twenty acres of any other lands adjacent to such battlefield found by the Secretary to be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 430aa to 430ee of this title—lie within the lands particularly described as follows: section 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33, all township 21 north, range 28 west, Fifth principal meridian; section 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, all township 20 north, range 28 west, Fifth principal meridian; section 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36, all township 21 north, range 29 west, Fifth principal meridian; and section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, all township 20 north, range 29 west, Fifth principal meridian.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 430bb
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
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