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[CITE: 16USC425k]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 425k. Revision of park boundaries


(a) Boundary revision

    In furtherance of the purposes of sections 425 to 425j of this 
title, the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial 
National Military Park (hereinafter in sections 425k to 425o of this 
title referred to as the ``park'') shall hereafter comprise the lands 
and interests in lands within the boundary generally depicted as 
``Proposed Park Boundary'' on the maps entitled ``Fredericksburg and 
Spotsylvania National Military Park'', numbered 326-40075D/89, 326-
40074E/89, 326-40069B/89, 326-40070D/89, 326-40071C/89, 326-40076A/89, 
and 326-40073D/89, and dated June 1989, and the map entitled 
``Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park,'' numbered 
326-40072E/89/A and dated September 1990. The maps shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the Office of the National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior.

(b) Excluded lands

    Lands and interests in lands within the boundary depicted on the 
maps referred to in subsection (a) of this section as ``Existing Park 
Boundary'' but outside of the boundary depicted as ``Proposed Park 
Boundary'' are hereby excluded from the park, in accordance with the 
provisions of section 425l(b) of this title. The Secretary of the 
Interior (hereinafter referred to as the ``Secretary'') may relinquish 
to the Commonwealth of Virginia exclusive or concurrent legislative 
jurisdiction over lands excluded from the park by this section by filing 
with the Governor a notice of relinquishment. Such relinquishment shall 
take effect upon acceptance thereof, or as the laws of the Commonwealth 
may otherwise provide.

(Pub. L. 101-214, Sec. 2, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1849; Pub. L. 102-
541, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3565; Pub. L. 106-150, 
Sec. 1(c), Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1730.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-150 substituted ``Spotsylvania 
National'' for ``Spotslyvania National''.
    1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-541 struck out ``326-40072E/89,'' 
after ``326-40071C/89.'' and substituted ``1989, and the map entitled 
`Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park,' numbered 326-
40072E/89/A and dated September, 1990.'' for ``1989.''


                    Effective Date of 1992 Amendment

    Section 2(a)(2) of Pub. L. 102-541 provided in part that amendment 
of this section by Pub. L. 102-541 was not to be effective until the 
lands included within the proposed new boundaries of the Fredericksburg 
and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park 
pursuant to Pub. L. 102-541 had been donated to the Secretary of the 
Interior, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 106-150, Sec. 1(a), Dec. 9, 1999, 
113 Stat. 1730.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 101-214 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this section and sections 425l to 425o of this title] may be cited as 
the `Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial 
National Military Park Expansion Act of 1989'.''


            Congressional Findings Relating to Park Expansion

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 102-541 provided that: ``Congress finds that 
the land area near Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields 
Memorial National Military Park, Virginia, located south and west of the 
intersection of the Orange Plank Road and Brock Road in Spotsylvania 
County was strategically significant ground associated with the battle 
of the Civil War known as the Battle of the Wilderness, and that the 
tract of land adjacent to such area known as `Longstreet's Flank Attack' 
was also strategically significant to that battle.''


              Acquisition of Certain Lands by Donation Only

    Section 2(b) of Pub. L. 102-541 provided that lands included within 
the boundaries of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County 
Battlefields Memorial National Military Park pursuant to that section, 
amending this section and enacting provisions formerly set out as a note 
above, could be acquired only by donation, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 
106-150, Sec. 1(b)(2), Dec. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1730.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 425l, 425m, 425o of this 
title.
