---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 407m–7"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "407m–7"
heading: "Exchange of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/407m-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LI — Independence National Historical Park"
---

# §407m–7. Exchange of property


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to convey on behalf of the United States a certain tract of land, or any interest therein, being a portion of Independence National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) B, embracing fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty square feet, more or less, and situate on the northeast corner of South Fifth Street and Marshall Court (formerly Manning Street), city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, together with the improvements thereon, to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia in exchange for property, or interest therein, owned by the authority of approximately equal value and which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) deems necessary for use in connection with the Independence National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). Property conveyed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) pursuant to this section shall thereupon cease to be a part of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and the property acquired in exchange therefor shall thereafter be a part of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), subject to all the laws and regulations applicable to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–604, Sept. 18, 1964, 78 Stat. 958.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as a part of act June 28, 1948, ch. 687, 62 Stat. 1061, as amended, which comprises this subchapter.