---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 407g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "407g"
heading: "State right-of-way for park-type road; reconveyance of interest upon completion of road"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/407g"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter L — Carlsbad Caverns National Park"
---

# §407g. State right-of-way for park-type road; reconveyance of interest upon completion of road


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to convey to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico a right-of-way over lands between the western boundary of the southeast quarter of [section 34](/usc/16/34.md), township 24 south, range 25 east, and the vicinity of the caverns for the use of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) in constructing a [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)-type road for public use thereon: Provided, That the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) may construct a road which shall meet the general standards of National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service roads and shall agree to reconvey its interests in such lands and any improvements thereon, without cost to the United States, upon completion of such road. The location of the road shall be determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), after consultation with officials of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–249, § 3, Dec. 30, 1963, 77 Stat. 819.)