---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 430h–7"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "430h–7"
heading: "Exclusion of lands from park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/430h-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §430h–7. Exclusion of lands from park

- (a) **Exclusion of certain lands—** The [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) boundary is hereby revised to exclude those lands depicted as “Proposed Deletions” on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) entitled “Vicksburg National Military [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3)” numbered 306–80,007 and dated May 1990, which [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior. Exclusive jurisdiction over the lands excluded from the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) is hereby retroceded to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Mississippi.
- (b) **Transfer to adjacent owners—**
  - (1) For a period ending four years after October 18, 1990, and subject to the provisions of [paragraph (2)](#b-2), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to convey title to all or part of the lands referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) to an [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of property adjacent to such lands, upon the application of such [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4).
  - (2) No property shall be conveyed unless the application referred to in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) is accompanied by a payment in an amount equal to—
    - (A) the fair market value of the land to be conveyed; and
    - (B) the administrative costs of such transfer incurred by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), including the costs of surveys, appraisals, and filing and recording fees.
- (c) **Excess property—** Any lands not conveyed pursuant to [subsection (b)](#b) shall be reported to the [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) of General Services as excess to the needs of the Department of the Interior and shall be subject to transfer or disposition in accordance with chapters [1](/usc/40/chstI/ch1.md) to [11](/usc/40/chstI/ch11.md) of title 40 and division C (except sections [3302](/usc/16/3302.md), 3307(e), [3501(b)](/usc/16/3501.md?p=b), [3509](/usc/16/3509.md), 3906, 4710, and [4711](/usc/16/4711.md)) of subtitle I of title 41.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–442, title I, § 102, Oct. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 1019.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In subsec. (c), “chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41” substituted for “the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, which Act enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.