---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450dd"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450dd"
heading: "De Soto National Memorial; establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450dd"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450dd. De Soto National Memorial; establishment


For the purpose of establishing an appropriate [memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) to Hernando De Soto, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) on behalf of the United States, by donation, by purchase with donated funds when purchaseable[^1] at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation with donated funds, such lands and interests in land within an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of not to exceed thirty acres as he may select in the vicinity of Tampa Bay and Bradenton, Florida, and to construct thereon a suitable [memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) structure, together with such connecting roads and public facilities as may be desirable.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “purchasable”.

## Source credit

(Mar. 11, 1948, ch. 109, § 1, 62 Stat. 78; Pub. L. 86–728, § 1A, Sept. 8, 1960, 74 Stat. 856.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1960—Pub. L. 86–728 increased limitation on acquisition of land from twenty-five to thirty acres.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Authorization of Appropriations

Section 3 of act Mar. 11, 1948, as amended Aug. 21, 1950, ch. 768, 64 Stat. 469; Sept. 8, 1960, Pub. L. 86–728, § 1B, 74 Stat. 856; Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–625, title I, § 101(8), 92 Stat. 3471; Oct. 12, 1979, Pub. L. 96–87, title IV, § 401(a), 93 Stat. 665, provided that: “There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $292,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act [sections 450dd and 450dd–1 of this title].”