Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§450kk Fort Union National Monument; Acquisition of Site and Other Lands; Reversions and Reservations

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXI — NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS › § 450kk

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may accept donations or use donated money to get the Old Fort Union site, its remaining buildings, and any extra land or property rights needed to protect the site and provide public access for the United States. Donated land can come with conditions the Secretary agrees to, such as letting the donor (or their successors and assigns) take the land back if the place stops being a national monument, or keeping mineral rights so long as the surface is not used or disturbed without the Secretary’s permission.

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Title 16, §450kk

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In order to preserve and protect, in the public interest, the historic Old Fort Union, situated in the county of Mora, State of New Mexico, and to provide adequate public access thereto, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States by donation, or he may procure with donated funds, the site and remaining structures of Old Fort Union, together with such additional land, interests in land, and improvements thereon as the Secretary in his discretion may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this section and section 450kk–1 of this title. Donated lands may be accepted subject to such reservations, terms, and conditions as may be satisfactory to the Secretary, including right of reversion to donor, or its successors and assigns, upon abandonment as a national monument, and reservation of mineral rights subject to condition that surface of donated lands may not be used or disturbed in connection therewith, without the consent of the Secretary.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 450kk

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102