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

# §430gg. 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 Horseshoe Bend Battle Ground 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 Horseshoe Bend 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 battleground found by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) to be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections [430ff](/usc/16/430ff.md) to [430jj](/usc/16/430jj.md) of this title, lie within the lands particularly described as follows: Sections [13](/usc/16/13.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), [15](/usc/16/15.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), and [23](/usc/16/23.md), all township 23 north, range 23 east, Saint Stephens meridian.


## Source credit

(July 25, 1956, ch. 729, § 2, 70 Stat. 651.)