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

# §430h–2. Exchange of certain lands authorized


In order to further the consolidation of land comprising Vicksburg National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, upon such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary, to transfer to the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, for school purposes, a tract of [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) land containing three and one-tenth acres, more or less, now under revocable permit to said city, acting through its board of education, and to transfer to the Mississippi [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) Highway [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) a tract of [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) land containing one and thirty-two hundredths acres, more or less, now under revocable permit to said [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) for use as a site for a weighing station: Provided, That, from among the land designated as tracts 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, and 216 on [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) Numbered NMP–VIC–7007, said city and highway [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall transfer in exchange to the United States, for [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to Vicksburg National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), such land or interests therein as may be mutually agreed upon and which are approximately equal in value to the properties being acquired in each case.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–667, Aug. 14, 1958, 72 Stat. 617.)