---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450bb–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450bb–3"
heading: "Acquisition of additional lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450bb-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450bb–3. Acquisition of additional lands


To further the commemorative purposes of sections [450bb](/usc/16/450bb.md) to [450bb–2](/usc/16/450bb–2.md) of this title, by providing historic properties and administrative facilities, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), in the manner hereafter stated, the Storer College site, the original site of John Brown’s “Fort” and the old Federal armory, comprising altogether approximately thirty acres, for [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to Harpers Ferry National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–655, § 1, July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 520; Pub. L. 88–33, May 29, 1963, 77 Stat. 52.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Harpers Ferry National Historical Park” substituted in text for “Harpers Ferry National Monument” in view of redesignation of Harpers Ferry National Monument as Harpers Ferry National Historical Park by Pub. L. 88–33, classified to section 450bb–6 of this title.