---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 192b–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "192b–3"
heading: "Acquisition of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/192b-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Rocky Mountain National Park"
---

# §192b–3. Acquisition of lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) lands and interests in lands by donation or with donated funds, by purchase with Federal funds, or otherwise, in his discretion, for development of an appropriate eastern approach to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), described as follows:

sixth principal meridian

Township 5 north, range 73 west; those parts of the following [subdivisions](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) lying south of the south boundary of the present Highdrive Road right-of-way: Section 27, east half southwest quarter, and south half southeast quarter; [section 34](/usc/16/34.md), northeast quarter northeast quarter; [section 35](/usc/16/35.md), west half northwest quarter northwest quarter; those parts of the following [subdivisions](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) lying north and west of the left bank of the Big Thompson River: [Section 34](/usc/16/34.md), north half southeast quarter northeast quarter; [section 35](/usc/16/35.md), southwest quarter northwest quarter comprising approximately one hundred and forty-five acres; and a strip of land, not to exceed an average of five hundred feet in width, generally paralleling the Thompson River for approximately one and six-tenths miles from near the center of [section 25](/usc/16/25.md), township 5 north, range 73 west, to the one hundred and forty-five-acre tract described elsewhere in this section.


## Source credit

(Aug. 24, 1949, ch. 501, § 2, 63 Stat. 626.)