---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430bb"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430bb"
heading: "Determination of desirable areas"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430bb"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430bb. Determination of desirable areas


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized and directed to make an examination of the Pea Ridge Battlefield with a view to determining the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) thereof deemed desirable for inclusion in the Pea Ridge National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and which—except for not more than twenty acres of any other lands adjacent to such battlefield found by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) to be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections [430aa](/usc/16/430aa.md) to [430ee](/usc/16/430ee.md) of this title—lie within the lands particularly described as follows: sections [17](/usc/16/17.md), [18](/usc/16/18.md), 19, 20, 29, [30](/usc/16/30.md), [31](/usc/16/31.md), [32](/usc/16/32.md), and [33](/usc/16/33.md), all township 21 north, range 28 west, Fifth principal meridian; sections [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), and [8](/usc/16/8.md), all township 20 north, range 28 west, Fifth principal meridian; sections [13](/usc/16/13.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), 20, [21](/usc/16/21.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), [23](/usc/16/23.md), [24](/usc/16/24.md), [25](/usc/16/25.md), [26](/usc/16/26.md), 27, 28, 29, [31](/usc/16/31.md), [32](/usc/16/32.md), [33](/usc/16/33.md), [34](/usc/16/34.md), [35](/usc/16/35.md), and [36](/usc/16/36.md), all township 21 north, range 29 west, Fifth principal meridian; and sections [1](/usc/16/1.md), [2](/usc/16/2.md), [3](/usc/16/3.md), [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), [8](/usc/16/8.md), [9](/usc/16/9.md), 10, [11](/usc/16/11.md), and [12](/usc/16/12.md), all township 20 north, range 29 west, Fifth principal meridian.


## Source credit

(July 20, 1956, ch. 653, § 2, 70 Stat. 592.)