---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430a–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430a–2"
heading: "Acquisition of lands within revised boundary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430a-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430a–2. Acquisition of lands within revised boundary


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) lands and interests in lands within the revised boundary by purchase, donation, with donated funds, or by exchange, utilizing for such exchanges federally owned lands of approximately equal value excluded from the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) pursuant to sections [430a–1](/usc/16/430a–1.md) to [430a–3](/usc/16/430a–3.md) of this title. Federally owned lands so excluded which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior determines are not needed for such exchanges shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of chapters [1](/usc/40/chstI/ch1.md) to [11](/usc/40/chstI/ch11.md) of title 40 and division C (except sections [3302](/usc/16/3302.md), 3307(e), [3501(b)](/usc/16/3501.md?p=b), [3509](/usc/16/3509.md), 3906, 4710, and [4711](/usc/16/4711.md)) of subtitle I of title 41.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–62, § 2, June 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 108.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41” substituted for “the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, which Act enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.