---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 251i"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "251i"
heading: "Land acquisition of privately owned land; report to Congress; condemnation proceedings; compensation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/251i"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXVII — Olympic National Park"
---

# §251i. Land acquisition of privately owned land; report to Congress; condemnation proceedings; compensation


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is directed to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) in fee all other privately owned lands added to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by and pursuant to sections [251e](/usc/16/251e.md) to [251m](/usc/16/251m.md) of this title, and to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) within three years of October 21, 1976, so much of such lands as can be acquired by donation, exchange, or purchase, to the extent of available funds, and to report to Congress on the third anniversary of October 21, 1976, the estimated amount of appropriations which would be necessary to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) the remainder, if any, of such lands by condemnation. The compensation for such lands shall be their fair market value on the date of their [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) into account applicable land use regulations in effect on January 1, 1976.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 320(f), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2741.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 251e to 251m of this title, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 94–578.