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

# §157b. Additional lands within park boundaries


Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to procure, in such manner as he may consider to be in the public interest, the remaining non-[Federal land](/usc/16/3102.md?p=2) and interests in land within the boundaries of Big Bend National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)