---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 192b–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "192b–4"
heading: "Acquisition of property to connect certain roads and to develop residential, utility, and administrative units"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/192b-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Rocky Mountain National Park"
---

# §192b–4. Acquisition of property to connect certain roads and to develop residential, utility, and administrative units


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by purchase or otherwise such properties within the exterior boundaries of Rocky Mountain National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) as may be deemed by him to be necessary in connecting the eastern approach road with the existing Bear Lake and Trail Ridge roads, and in developing the present governmental residential, utility, and proposed administrative [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(Aug. 24, 1949, ch. 501, § 4, 63 Stat. 627.)