---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460u–13"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460u–13"
heading: "Acquisition of area I–C; owner consent required"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460u-13"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIX — Indiana Dunes National Park"
---

# §460u–13. Acquisition of area I–C; owner consent required

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) that portion of [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) I–C which is shaded on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [section 460u–3 of this title](/usc/16/460u–3.md), dated December 1980 and numbered 626–91014 only with the consent of the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) unless the present [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) attempts to sell or otherwise dispose of such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) that portion of [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) IV–B in private ownership on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [section 460u of this title](/usc/16/460u.md) only with the consent of the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4): Provided, That the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) an agricultural easement should the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) change the use in existence as of September 19, 1986, through eminent domain.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–761, § 13, formerly § 14, as added and renumbered Pub. L. 94–549, § 1(8), (9), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2531, 2533; amended Pub. L. 99–583, § 1(f), Oct. 29, 1986, 100 Stat. 3320.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–583 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted “460u–3 of this title, dated December 1980 and numbered 626–91014” for “460u of this title”, and added subsec. (b).