---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430f–9"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430f–9"
heading: "Land acquisition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430f-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430f–9. Land acquisition

- (a) **In general—** 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 boundary of the [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) described in [section 430f–8(b) of this title](/usc/16/430f–8.md?p=b), by—
  - (1) donation;
  - (2) purchase with donated or appropriated funds; or
  - (3) exchange.
- (b) **Exception—** Land may be acquired only by donation from—
  - (1) the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Mississippi (including a political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a));
  - (2) the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Tennessee (including a political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a)); or
  - (3) the organization known as “Friends of the Siege and Battle of Corinth”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–271, § 5, Sept. 22, 2000, 114 Stat. 793; Pub. L. 110–161, div. F, title I, § 127(3), Dec. 26, 2007, 121 Stat. 2122.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2007—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–161 substituted “described in section 430f–8(b) of this title” for “as depicted on the Map” in introductory provisions.