---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410q"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410q"
heading: "Exchange of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410q"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIV — Everglades National Park"
---

# §410q. Exchange of lands


In order to further the administration and use of the Everglades National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to accept on behalf of the United States title to the following described parcels of land:

Those parts of tracts “R” and “S” which lie west of the right-of-way of [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Road Numbered 29, and lots 1 to 9, inclusive, of block 40, in Everglades City, Florida, comprising 18.98, 1.32, and 3.17 acres, respectively, as shown on N.P.S. [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) No. EVE–NP–E–1, dated June 23, 1959, of Everglades City, Florida; and not to exceed 15 acres of submerged lands lying adjacent to said tracts “R” and “S”, if such additional lands are considered necessary by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to permit full utilization of the lands above described;

and, in exchange for such parcels of land, to convey to the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) or [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) thereof all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following described parcels of land within the Everglades National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3):

Tract “L” and block 34, comprising 9.09 and 1.65 acres, respectively, lying in or in the vicinity of Everglades City, Florida.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–269, § 1, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 553.)