---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410cccc"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410cccc"
heading: "Acquisition of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410cccc"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–AAA — Golden Spike National Historical Park"
---

# §410cccc. Acquisition of lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) on behalf of the United States by gift, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such lands and interest in land, together with any improvements thereon, as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may deem necessary for the purpose of establishing a national historic site commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States on the site described on a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Proposed Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah”, prepared by the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Southwest Region, dated February 1963. In exercising his authority to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) property by exchange, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may accept title to any non-Federal property within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) depicted on such drawing, and in exchange therefor he may convey to the grantor of such property any federally owned property in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Utah under his jurisdiction which he classifies as suitable for exchange or other disposal. The properties so exchanged shall be of approximately equal value, but the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may accept cash from, or pay cash to, the grantor in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–102, § 1, July 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 426.)