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

# §430g–2. Exchange of lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to have competent and disinterested appraisals made as to the value of not more than twenty-three acres of land in Gettysburg National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Pennsylvania, such land lying generally between East Confederate Avenue and Wainwright Avenue, and being situated adjacent to the present high-school property in that [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A). Upon the basis of such appraisals, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to convey such property for public-school purposes to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Pennsylvania, or the appropriate local agency thereof, the conveyance to be made in exchange for non-[Federal land](/usc/16/3102.md?p=2) of approximately equal value, which land, upon acceptance by the United States, shall become a part of Gettysburg National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(July 31, 1953, ch. 290, 67 Stat. 243.)