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[CITE: 16USC410s]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER LV--MINUTE MAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 410s. Establishment


(a) In general

    In order to preserve for the benefit of the American people certain 
historic structures and properties of outstanding national significance 
associated with the opening of the War of the American Revolution, 
Minute Man National Historical Park is authorized to be established in 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The purposes of the park shall 
include the preservation and interpretation of (1) the historic 
landscape along the road between Lexington and Concord, (2) sites 
associated with the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, 
and (3) the Wayside on Lexington Road in Concord, the home of Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney, whose 
works illustrate the nineteenth century American literary renaissance.

(b) Boundaries

    The park shall be comprised of the lands depicted on the map 
entitled ``Boundary Map NARO-406-20015C'', dated June 1991.

(Pub. L. 86-321, Sec. 1, Sept. 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 591; Pub. L. 91-548, 
Sec. 1, Dec. 14, 1970, 84 Stat. 1436; Pub. L. 102-488, Sec. 2[(1)], Oct. 
24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3135.)


                               Amendments

    1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-488 substituted ``The purposes of the 
park shall include the preservation and interpretation of (1) the 
historic landscape along the road between Lexington and Concord, (2) 
sites associated with the causes and consequences of the American 
Revolution, and (3) the Wayside on Lexington Road in Concord, the home 
of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret 
Sidney, whose works illustrate the nineteenth century American literary 
renaissance.'' for ``The park shall comprise not more than seven hundred 
and fifty acres as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior 
from within the area beginning at Fiske Hill and thence lying along 
Massachusetts Avenue, Marrett Road and Marrett Street in the town of 
Lexington, along Nelson Road, Virginia Road, Old Bedford Road, and North 
Great Road or State Route 2-A in the town of Lincoln, and along 
Lexington Road, Monument Street, Liberty Street and Lowell Road in the 
town of Concord to and including the North Bridge and properties on both 
sides of the Concord River in the vicinity of the North Bridge.''
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-488 added subsec. (b) and struck out former 
subsec. (b) which read as follows: ``Notwithstanding the description set 
forth in subsection (a) of this section, if the Secretary should 
determine that the relocation of Highway 2 by the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts makes it desirable to establish new boundaries in common 
with, contiguous or adjacent to the proposed right-of-way for that 
highway, he is authorized to relocate such boundaries accordingly, and 
shall give notice thereof by publication of a map or other suitable 
description in the Federal Register: Provided, That any net acreage 
increase by reason of the boundary revision and land exchanges with the 
Commonwealth shall not be included in calculations of acreage in regard 
to the limitation set forth in subsection (a) of this section, but shall 
be in addition thereto.''
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-488 struck out subsec. (c) which read as 
follows: ``Any lands added to the Minute Man National Historical Park, 
pursuant to subsection (b) of this section may be acquired only if such 
acquisition can be accomplished without cost for land acquisition and, 
when so acquired, shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations 
applicable thereto.''
    1970--Pub. L. 91-548 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsecs. (b) and (c).


                      Short Title of 1992 Amendment

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 102-488 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
sections 410x-1 and 410x-2 of this title and amending this section and 
sections 410t and 410x of this title] may be cited as the `Minute Man 
National Historical Park Amendments of 1991'.''
