---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 397b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "397b"
heading: "Procurement of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/397b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLIII — Puʻuhonua O Ho̅naunau National Historical Park"
---

# §397b. Procurement of lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to procure, by donation or purchase, with any funds that may be available for that purpose, lands and interests in lands which may be needed for the Puʻuhonua o Ho̅naunau National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) described in [section 397 of this title](/usc/16/397.md).


## Source credit

(July 26, 1955, ch. 385, § 3, 69 Stat. 379; Pub. L. 95–625, title III, § 305, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3477; Pub. L. 106–510, § 3(d)(1), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2364.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–510 substituted “Puʻuhonua o Ho̅naunau National Historical Park” for “Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park”.

1978—Pub. L. 95–625 redesignated as “Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park” the park previously designated “City of Refuge National Historical Park”.