---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 361f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "361f"
heading: "Exchange of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/361f"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XL — Hot Springs National Park"
---

# §361f. Exchange of lands


For the purpose of consolidating Federal holdings of land within Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Arkansas, and in order to bring about certain improvements in [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) land use, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to accept, on behalf of the United States, approximately 4.75 acres of non-[Federal land](/usc/16/3102.md?p=2) or interests in land situated in blocks 195 and 196 of the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and in exchange therefor to convey by deed on behalf of the United States to the grantor of the aforesaid property certain federally owned land or interests in land, of no greater value, comprising not in excess of five and three-tenths acres of land situated adjacent to and in the immediate rear of the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–679, Aug. 18, 1958, 72 Stat. 630.)