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[CITE: 16USC398a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
              SUBCHAPTER XLIV--VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 398a. Conditions and limitations

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized subject to the following 
conditions and limitations, to proceed in such manner as he shall find 
to be necessary in the public interest to consummate the establishment 
of the Virgin Islands National Park:
    (a) The acreage of the national park shall be limited to a total of 
not more than nine thousand five hundred acres of land area, such total 
to be comprised of not more than fifteen acres on the island of Saint 
Thomas, and not more than nine thousand four hundred and eighty-five 
additional acres to be comprised of portions of the island of Saint John 
and such small islands, rocks, and cays not in excess of five hundred 
acres in the general vicinity thereof as may be desirable for inclusion 
within the park;
    (b) Tentative exterior boundary lines, to include land not in excess 
of the aforesaid acreage limitations, may be selected for the park in 
order to establish the particular areas in which land may be acquired 
pursuant to this section and section 398 of this title, such tentative 
boundaries to be selected and adjusted as may be necessary by Secretary 
of the Interior;
    (c) The Secretary, on behalf of the United States, is authorized to 
accept donations of real and personal property within the areas selected 
for the park until such time as the aforesaid total of nine thousand 
five hundred acres shall have been acquired for the park by the United 
States, and he may also accept donations of funds for the purposes of 
this section and section 398 of this title. Notwithstanding the acreage 
limitations and boundary designations contained in this section, the 
Secretary is authorized to accept through donation, or purchase from a 
willing seller, the real and personal property located on Lots 251-252 
Estate Contant Enighed, Parcels 86B and 86AA Cruz Bay Quarter;
    (d) Any Federal properties situated within the areas selected for 
the park, upon agreement by the particular agency administering such 
properties that such properties should be made available for the park, 
may be transferred without further authorization to the Secretary by 
such agency for purposes of this section and section 398 of this title;
    (e) Establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, in its 
initial phase, shall be and is declared to be accomplished and effective 
for purposes of administration when a minimum acreage of not less than 
five thousand acres in Federal ownership for purposes of this section 
and section 398 of this title shall have been acquired by the United 
States in specific areas containing such acquired lands to be designated 
by the Secretary; and
    (f) Notice of the establishment of the park as authorized and 
prescribed by this section and section 398 of this title shall be 
published in the Federal Register.

(Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 885, Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 940; Pub. L. 95-348, 
Sec. 7(b)(6), Aug. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 495.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95-348 inserted provisions relating to 
acceptance through donation or purchase of the real and personal 
property located on Lots 251-252 Estate Contant Enighed.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 398, 398c, 398d of this 
title; title 48 section 1705.
