---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 433k–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "433k–1"
heading: "Acquisition of additional land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/433k-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §433k–1. Acquisition of additional land


For the purpose of including within Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Washington, certain properties that are of historic significance in connection with the site [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and which are needed to provide suitable monument facilities, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to procure not to exceed fifty acres of land adjacent to the existing site and a right-of-way thereto from United States Highway 410, using therefor any land [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) funds available for the purposes of the national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) system, such property to be acquired in such manner as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall consider to be in the public interest. Following the [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by the United States of land for [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the site pursuant to this section, such [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) shall be effective in each instance upon the publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–388, May 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 101; Pub. L. 87–471, May 31, 1962, 76 Stat. 90.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Whitman Mission National Historic Site” and “site” substituted in text for “Whitman National Monument” and “monument”, respectively, pursuant to Pub. L. 87–471, which redesignated Whitman National Monument as Whitman Mission National Historic Site, classified to section 433n of this title.