---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 228c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "228c"
heading: "Acquisition of lands within enlarged boundaries by donation, purchase, or exchange; transfer of jurisdiction over Federal lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/228c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Grand Canyon National Park"
---

# §228c. Acquisition of lands within enlarged boundaries by donation, purchase, or exchange; transfer of jurisdiction over Federal lands

- (a) Within the boundaries of the Grand Canyon National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), as enlarged by sections [228a](/usc/16/228a.md) to [228j](/usc/16/228j.md) of this title, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)”) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) land and interest in land by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange.
- (b) [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) within the boundaries of such [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) are hereby transferred to the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) for the purposes of sections [228a](/usc/16/228a.md) to [228j](/usc/16/228j.md) of this title.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–620, § 4, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2090.)