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[CITE: 16USC262]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
       SUBCHAPTER XXVIII--CUMBERLAND GAP NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 262. Total area; consent of Congress to acquisition of 
        lands and property and transfer thereof to United States
        
    The total area of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, as 
determined pursuant to this subchapter, shall comprise not less than six 
thousand acres and shall not exceed fifty thousand acres, and lands may 
be added to the park following its establishment within the aforesaid 
limitations. The park shall not include any land within the city limits 
of Middlesboro and Pineville, Kentucky; Cumberland Gap, Tennessee; which 
the proper officials thereof shall indicate to the Secretary of the 
Interior prior to the establishment of said park are required for 
expansion of said cities.
    (a) The consent of Congress is given to the States of Tennessee, 
Kentucky, and Virginia to enter into a compact providing for (1) the 
acquisition of the lands, structures, and other property in the 
Cumberland Gap-Cumberland Ford areas referred to in section 261 of this 
title, and (2) the transfer of title to such lands, structures, and 
other property to the United States.
    (b) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly 
reserved.

(June 11, 1940, ch. 304, Sec. 2, 54 Stat. 263; May 26, 1943, ch. 103, 
Sec. 2, 57 Stat. 85.)


                               Amendments

    1943--Act May 26, 1943, among other changes, inserted minimum 
acreage limitation in first par. and added pars. (a) and (b).
