---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 284"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "284"
heading: "Establishment; statement of purposes; description; acquisition of property; acreage limitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/284"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXXV — Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts"
---

# §284. Establishment; statement of purposes; description; acquisition of property; acreage limitation


For the purpose of establishing in the National Capital [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) a [park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) for the performing arts and related educational programs, and for recreation use in connection therewith, the [Secretary](/usc/16/284j.md?p=1) of the Interior is authorized to establish, develop, improve, operate, and maintain the Wolf Trap National [Park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) for the Performing Arts in Fairfax County, Virginia. The [park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) shall encompass the portions of the property formerly known as Wolf Trap Farm and Symphony Hill in Fairfax County, Virginia, to be donated for [park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) purposes to the United States, and such additional lands or interests therein as the [Secretary](/usc/16/284j.md?p=1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) for purposes of the [park](/usc/16/284j.md?p=2) by donation or purchase with donated or appropriated funds, the aggregate of which shall not exceed one hundred and forty-five acres.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–671, § 1, Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 950; Pub. L. 107–219, § 1(a)(1), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1330.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–219 substituted “Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts” for “Wolf Trap Farm Park”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Section 12 of Pub. L. 89–671, as added by Pub. L. 97–310, Oct. 14, 1982, 96 Stat. 1458, and amended by Pub. L. 107–219, § 1(a)(1), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1330, provided that: “This Act [enacting this subchapter] may be referred to as the ‘Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Act’.”

### Study of Park Future; Report to Congress

Pub. L. 89–671, § 13, as added by Pub. L. 101–636, § 3, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4587, directed Secretary, acting jointly with the Foundation, to conduct a study and analysis of the operations and management practices being used to carry out the purposes of this subchapter and to submit, not later than 2 years after Nov. 28, 1990, a report of such study and analysis to Congress.