---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460u–22"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460u–22"
heading: "Consideration of property owner’s hardship in property acquisition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460u-22"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIX — Indiana Dunes National Park"
---

# §460u–22. Consideration of property owner’s hardship in property acquisition


In exercising his authority to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) property under this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall give prompt and careful consideration to any offer made by an individual owning property within the [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) to sell such property, if such individual notifies the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) in writing that the continued ownership of such property is causing, or would result in, undue hardship.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–761, § 22, as added Pub. L. 96–612, § 1(12), Dec. 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 3577; amended Pub. L. 116–6, div. E, title I, § 115(a)(1)(B), Feb. 15, 2019, 133 Stat. 232.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–6 substituted “Park” for “lakeshore”.