---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450kk"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450kk"
heading: "Fort Union National Monument; acquisition of site and other lands; reversions and reservations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450kk"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450kk. Fort Union National Monument; acquisition of site and other lands; reversions and reservations


In order to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) and protect, in the public interest, the historic Old Fort Union, situated in the county of Mora, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico, and to provide adequate public access thereto, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) on behalf of the United States by donation, or he may procure with donated funds, the site and remaining structures of Old Fort Union, together with such additional land, interests in land, and improvements thereon as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) in his discretion may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this section and [section 450kk–1 of this title](/usc/16/450kk–1.md). Donated lands may be accepted subject to such reservations, terms, and conditions as may be satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), including right of reversion to donor, or its successors and assigns, upon abandonment as a national monument, and reservation of mineral rights subject to condition that surface of donated lands may not be used or disturbed in connection therewith, without the consent of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1).


## Source credit

(June 28, 1954, ch. 401, § 1, 68 Stat. 298.)