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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may buy up to fifty acres next to Whitman Mission National Historic Site in Washington and a right-of-way to United States Highway 410 to include nearby historic properties and to provide needed monument facilities. The purchases can use land-acquisition funds available for the national park system and be made in whatever way the Secretary finds to be in the public interest. Each addition becomes official when a notice is published 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

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60