Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§430g–2 Exchange of Lands

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 430g–2

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may get independent appraisals for up to twenty-three acres of land in Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, lying between East Confederate Avenue and Wainwright Avenue next to the current high-school property. Using those appraisals, the Secretary may transfer that land to the State of Pennsylvania or its local school agency for public-school use in exchange for non-Federal land of approximately equal value; if the United States accepts the exchanged land, it becomes part of the park.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §430g–2

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to have competent and disinterested appraisals made as to the value of not more than twenty-three acres of land in Gettysburg National Military Park, in the State of Pennsylvania, such land lying generally between East Confederate Avenue and Wainwright Avenue, and being situated adjacent to the present high-school property in that area. Upon the basis of such appraisals, the Secretary is authorized to convey such property for public-school purposes to the State of Pennsylvania, or the appropriate local agency thereof, the conveyance to be made in exchange for non-Federal land of approximately equal value, which land, upon acceptance by the United States, shall become a part of Gettysburg National Military Park.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 430g–2

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102