---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410tt–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410tt–2"
heading: "Acquisition of land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410tt-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–R — Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve at St. Croix, Virgin Islands"
---

# §410tt–2. Acquisition of land

- (a) **General authority—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “[Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1)”) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) land and interests in land within the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Government of the United States Virgin Islands from acquiring land or interest in land within the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).
- (b) **Limitations on authority—** Lands, and interests in lands, within the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) which are owned by the United States Virgin Islands, or any political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof, may be acquired only by donation or exchange. No lands, or interests therein, containing dwellings lying within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary as of July 1, 1991, may be acquired without the consent of the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4), unless the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) determines, after consultation with the Government of the United States Virgin Islands, that the land is being developed or proposed to be developed in a manner which is detrimental to the natural, scenic, historic, and other values for which the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) was established.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–247, title I, § 104, Feb. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 34.)