---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403h–15"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "403h–15"
heading: "Conveyances to Tennessee of lands within Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/403h-15"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVI — Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
---

# §403h–15. Conveyances to Tennessee of lands within Great Smoky Mountains National Park


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to convey to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Tennessee, subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) the natural beauty of the adjacent [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) lands, approximately twenty-eight acres of land comprising a portion of the right-of-way of Tennessee [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Route 72 (U.S. 129), and approximately forty-one acres comprising portions of the right-of-way of Tennessee [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Route 73 east of Gatlinburg, which are within the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–57, § 1, Aug. 9, 1969, 83 Stat. 100.)