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[CITE: 16USC403e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
  SUBCHAPTER XLVI--SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS 
                              NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 403e. Acceptance of title to lands; reservations; leases; 
        rights-of-way and easements
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to 
accept title to lands tendered without cost to the United States within 
the areas of the Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains 
National Park, subject to leases entered into and granted as part 
consideration in connection with the purchase of said land for tender to 
the United States for park purposes, but not exceeding in length of term 
the life of the particular grantor or grantors: Provided, That said 
leases and the terms and conditions thereof shall have previously been 
submitted to and approved by said Secretary: And provided further, That 
he may lease upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper any lands 
within the aforesaid areas when such use shall not be deemed by him 
inconsistent with the purposes for which the lands were acquired on 
behalf of the United States, to persons, educational or religious 
institutions, private corporations, associations, and partnerships 
previously occupying such land for terms not exceeding the particular 
lifetime in the case of natural persons, and not exceeding twenty years 
in all other cases, which latter leases may be renewed in the discretion 
of said Secretary: And provided further, That the Secretary of the 
Interior may accept lands for these parks subject to reservations of 
rights-of-way and easements.

(Feb. 4, 1932, ch. 19, Sec. 2, 47 Stat. 37.)

                          Codification

    Provisions of act Feb. 4, 1932, Sec. 2, relating to Mammoth Cave 
National Park and Isle Royale National Park are classified to sections 
404d and 408c of this title.
