---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 267"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "267"
heading: "Authority of Secretary to acquire additional lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/267"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXVIII — Cumberland Gap National Historical Park"
---

# §267. Authority of Secretary to acquire additional lands


Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 262), as amended ([16 U.S.C. 261–265](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(/us/usc/t16/s261–265))[^1] ), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange not to exceed 60 acres of land or interests in land located in Bell County, Kentucky, and Claiborne County, Tennessee, for [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to and inclusion in the said national historical [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) which, upon [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), shall become a part of the Cumberland National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) subject to the laws, rules, and regulations governing such [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “261–264”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–477, title III, § 301(2), Oct. 26, 1974, 88 Stat. 1446.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of June 11, 1940, referred to in text, is act June 11, 1940, ch. 304, 54 Stat. 262, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act June 11, 1940, ch. 304, 54 Stat. 262, which comprises this subchapter.