---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 81o"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "81o"
heading: "Transfer of administrative jurisdiction over land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/81o"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter IX — Colonial National Historical Park"
---

# §81o. Transfer of administrative jurisdiction over land


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may transfer administrative jurisdiction over approximately 0.23 acres of land within Colonial National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Virginia, to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Army, and in exchange therefor, he may accept administrative jurisdiction over a like amount of land from the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Army, transfer of which is hereby authorized, for the purpose of relocating the Cape Henry [Memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) Cross. Land over which jurisdiction is transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall become part of Colonial National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and land over which jurisdiction is transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Army shall become part of Fort Story Military Reservation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–390, Aug. 23, 1986, 100 Stat. 831.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act July 3, 1930, ch. 837, 46 Stat. 855, which comprises this subchapter.