Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§433k–1 Acquisition of Additional Land
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXI — NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 433k–1
Summary
Allows the Secretary of the Interior to buy up to fifty acres next to Whitman Mission National Historic Site in Washington, plus a right-of-way to U.S. Highway 410, using national park system land-acquisition funds for historic property needed for park facilities. Each purchase becomes part of the site when a notice appears in the Federal Register.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §433k–1
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For the purpose of including within Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Washington, certain properties that are of historic significance in connection with the site area and which are needed to provide suitable monument facilities, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to procure not to exceed fifty acres of land adjacent to the existing site and a right-of-way thereto from United States Highway 410, using therefor any land acquisition funds available for the purposes of the national park system, such property to be acquired in such manner as the Secretary shall consider to be in the public interest. Following the acquisition by the United States of land for addition to the site pursuant to this section, such addition shall be effective in each instance upon the publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register.
Legislative History
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Change of Name
“Whitman Mission National Historic Site” and “site” substituted in text for “Whitman National Monument” and “monument”, respectively, pursuant to Pub. L. 87–471, which redesignated Whitman National Monument as Whitman Mission National Historic Site, classified to section 433n of this title.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 433k–1
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102