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[CITE: 16USC410gg-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                SUBCHAPTER LIX-E--BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 410gg-1. Acquisition of property


(a) Authority of Secretary; manner; State lands: donation, reservations, 
        and restrictions; Federal lands: transfer to administrative 
        jurisdiction of National Park Service and Secretary

    Within the boundary of the park the Secretary is authorized to 
acquire lands, waters, and interests therein by donation, purchase with 
donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, except that property owned 
by the State of Florida or any political subdivision thereof may be 
acquired only by donation, and subject to such reservations and 
restrictions as may be provided by Florida law. Lands, waters, and 
interests therein within such boundary which are owned by the United 
States and under the control of the Secretary are hereby transferred to 
the administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service to be 
managed for the purposes of the park. Any federally owned lands within 
the park which are not under the control of the Secretary shall be 
transferred to his control for purposes of the park at such time as said 
lands cease to be needed by the agencies which currently control them.

(b) Acquisition period; consideration by Secretary of prompt acquisition 
        of property

    It is the express intent of the Congress that the Secretary shall 
substantially complete the land acquisition program authorized herein 
within three complete fiscal years from the effective date of this 
subchapter. Any owner of property within the park may notify the 
Secretary of the desire of such owner that his property be promptly 
acquired, and the Secretary shall give immediate and careful 
consideration, subject to the availability of funds, to the prompt 
acquisition of such property.

(Pub. L. 96-287, title I, Sec. 102, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 599.)

                       References in Text

    The effective date of this subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b), 
probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 96-287, which was 
approved on June 28, 1980.
