---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 424a–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "424a–3"
heading: "Addition of surplus Government lands; publication of notice; effective date"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/424a-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §424a–3. Addition of surplus Government lands; publication of notice; effective date


Effective upon publication of notice, as hereinafter provided, there shall be added to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), a strip of land, comprising not more than one hundred acres, lying generally north of the present south line of Fort Oglethorpe and westward from the southeast corner thereof. The exact boundaries of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) added to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be agreed upon by the [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a), General Services Administration, and the Director of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service.

When the boundaries of the aforesaid [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) have been agreed upon, the General Services Administration shall furnish to the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service a legal description of the lands to be added to the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), together with a [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) showing the boundaries and the acreage of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).

Upon the receipt by the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service of such legal description and [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), public notice that such lands are to become a part of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), effective on the date of publication of such notice, shall be given in the Federal Register.


## Source credit

(June 24, 1948, ch. 630, 62 Stat. 646; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, § 105, 63 Stat. 381.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Act June 30, 1949, transferred functions, property and personnel of War Assets Administration to General Services Administration and functions of War Assets Administrator transferred to Administrator of General Services.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.