---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 157a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "157a"
heading: "Additional lands; aggregate cost"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/157a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Big Bend National Park"
---

# §157a. Additional lands; aggregate cost


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest, any land or interests in land situated within sections [15](/usc/16/15.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), 27, [34](/usc/16/34.md), block 234, Brewster County, Texas, which he shall consider to be suitable for [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the Big Bend National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3): Provided, however, That the aggregate cost to the Federal Government of properties acquired hereafter and under the provisions hereof shall not exceed the sum of $10,000. Properties acquired pursuant to this section shall become a part of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) upon [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of title thereto by the United States.


## Source credit

(Aug. 30, 1949, ch. 522, 63 Stat. 679.)