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§430f–5 Siege and Battle of Corinth

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 430f–5

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Summary

Create a public interpretive center in Corinth, Mississippi to explain the 1862 Siege and Battle of Corinth and other Civil War events, working with State, local, and private groups. The Secretary of the Interior must get the land needed by donation, purchase using donated money or money provided by Congress, or by exchange. Land owned by the State of Mississippi or its local governments can only be accepted as a donation. The Secretary must build, run, and maintain the center on the acquired land. The Secretary may mark sites linked to the Siege and Battle of Corinth National Historic Landmark (designated May 6, 1991) if those sites are protected by state or local agencies. The property and facilities will be managed as part of Shiloh National Military Park under the laws that apply to the Park and the National Park Service acts of August 25, 1916, and August 21, 1935. Up to $6,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated for development.

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Title 16, §430f–5

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(a)Purpose
The purpose of this section is to provide for a center for the interpretation of the Siege and Battle of Corinth and other Civil War actions in the Region and to enhance public understanding of the significance of the Corinth Campaign in the Civil War relative to the Western theater of operations, in cooperation with State or local governmental entities and private organizations and individuals.
(b)Acquisition of property at Corinth, Mississippi
The Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this title as the “Secretary”) shall acquire by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, such land and interests in land in the vicinity of the Corinth Battlefield, in the State of Mississippi, as the Secretary determines to be necessary for the construction of an interpretive center to commemorate and interpret the 1862 Civil War Siege and Battle of Corinth.
(c)Publicly owned land (d) Interpretive center and marking
Land and interests in land owned by the State of Mississippi or a political subdivision of the State of Mississippi may be acquired only by donation.
(e)Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for development to carry out this section.

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This title, referred to in subsec. (b), is title VI of div. I of Pub. L. 104–333, which enacted this section, former section 469k of this title, provisions formerly set out as a note under section 1a–5 of this title, and provisions listed in a table of National Battlefield Sites set out under section 320101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs. The Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved
August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), referred to in subsec. (d)(3), is act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, which enacted section 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title, amended section 22 and 43 of this title and section 1457 of Title 43, Public Lands, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 1 of this title. 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, National Park Service and Related Programs, 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. The Act entitled “An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes”, approved
August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.), referred to in subsec. (d)(3), is act Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 593, 49 Stat. 666, known as the Historic Sites Act of 1935 and also as the Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act, which enacted sections 461 to 467 of this title. The Act was repealed and restated as section 1866(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and section 102303 and 102304 and chapter 3201 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, 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. § 430f–5

Title 16, Conservation

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Sep 23, 2026

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