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[CITE: 16USC428l]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 428l. Acquisition of lands; agreement for transfer of 
        jurisdiction
        
    Within the area designated for addition to such battlefield under 
section 428k of this title, the Secretary is authorized to acquire non-
Federal lands and interests in lands by purchase, by donation, by 
purchase with donated funds, or in such other manner and by such means 
as he may deem to be in the public interest, except that the Surrender 
House and land upon which it is situated shall be acquired only by 
donation or by purchase with donated funds. Administrative jurisdiction 
and control over lands administered by the Corps of Engineers, 
Department of the Army, above contour elevation 369 and which, under 
authority of section 428k of this title, are designated for inclusion in 
the battlefield, shall, upon agreement of the administering agency, be 
transferred to the Secretary of the Interior without a transfer of 
funds.

(Pub. L. 86-738, Secs. 2, 4, Sept. 8, 1960, 74 Stat. 876.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Battlefield'' substituted in text for ``park'' in view of 
redesignation of Fort Donelson National Military Park as Fort Donelson 
National Battlefield by Pub. L. 86-738, Sec. 4, set out as section 428n 
of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 428m, 428n of this title.
