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[CITE: 16USC430f-5]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 430f-5. Siege and Battle of Corinth


(a) Purpose

    The purpose of this section is to provide for a center for the 
interpretation of the Siege and Battle of Corinth and other Civil War 
actions in the Region and to enhance public understanding of the 
significance of the Corinth Campaign in the Civil War relative to the 
Western theater of operations, in cooperation with State or local 
governmental entities and private organizations and individuals.

(b) Acquisition of property at Corinth, Mississippi

    The Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this title \1\ as the 
``Secretary'') shall acquire by donation, purchase with donated or 
appropriated funds, or exchange, such land and interests in land in the 
vicinity of the Corinth Battlefield, in the State of Mississippi, as the 
Secretary determines to be necessary for the construction of an 
interpretive center to commemorate and interpret the 1862 Civil War 
Siege and Battle of Corinth.
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(c) Publicly owned land

    Land and interests in land owned by the State of Mississippi or a 
political subdivision of the State of Mississippi may be acquired only 
by donation.

(d) Interpretive center and marking

                       (1) Interpretive center

        The Secretary shall construct, operate, and maintain on the 
    property acquired under subsection (b) of this section a center for 
    the interpretation of the Siege and Battle of Corinth and associated 
    historical events for the benefit of the public.

                             (2) Marking

        The Secretary may mark sites associated with the Siege and 
    Battle of Corinth National Historic Landmark, as designated on May 
    6, 1991, if the sites are determined by the Secretary to be 
    protected by State or local governmental agencies.

                         (3) Administration

        The land and interests in land acquired, and the facilities 
    constructed and maintained pursuant to this section, shall be 
    administered by the Secretary as a part of Shiloh National Military 
    Park, subject to the appropriate laws (including regulations) 
    applicable to the Park, sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title and 
    sections 461 to 467 of this title.

(e) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for development 
to carry out this section.

(Pub. L. 104-333, div. I, title VI, Sec. 602, Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 
4171.)

                       References in Text

    This title, referred to in subsec. (b), is title VI of div. I of 
Pub. L. 104-333, which enacted this section, section 469k of this title, 
provisions set out as a note under section 1a-5 of this title, and 
provisions listed in a table of National Battlefield Sites set out under 
section 461 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 430f-10, 430f-12 of this 
title.
