---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460a–6"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460a–6"
heading: "Blue Ridge Parkway extension; acceptance of lands; public use, administration, and maintenance areas; survey location of parkway extension crossing national forest land; transfer from Federal agency to administrative jurisdiction of Secretary of the Interior; national forest uses following transfer within national forest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460a-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXV — National Parkways"
---

# §460a–6. Blue Ridge Parkway extension; acceptance of lands; public use, administration, and maintenance areas; survey location of parkway extension crossing national forest land; transfer from Federal agency to administrative jurisdiction of Secretary of the Interior; national forest uses following transfer within national forest


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, donations of land and interests in land in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of North Carolina and Georgia, to construct thereon an extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the vicinity of Beech Gap, North Carolina, to the vicinity of Kennesaw Mountain National [Battlefield Park](/usc/16/423l–1.md?p=b-1) north of Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia, and to provide public use, administration, and maintenance [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in connection therewith. The lands accepted for the parkway extension may vary in width but shall average not more than one hundred and twenty-five acres per mile in fee simple plus not more than twenty-five acres per mile in scenic easements. The survey location and width of any portion of the parkway extension that crosses national forest land shall be jointly determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture. Where the parkway extension designated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior traverses [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2), the head of the department or agency having jurisdiction over such lands is authorized to transfer to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior the part of the [Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) mutually agreed upon as necessary for the construction, maintenance and administration of the parkway extension and public use thereof, without transfer of funds. Any such transfer within a national forest shall not preclude any national forest use that is compatible with parkway use and that is agreed upon by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior and the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–555, § 1, Oct. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 967.)