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[CITE: 16USC450dd]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 450dd. De Soto National Memorial; establishment

    For the purpose of establishing an appropriate memorial to Hernando 
De Soto, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, 
to acquire on behalf of the United States, by donation, by purchase with 
donated funds when purchaseable \1\ at prices deemed by him reasonable, 
or by condemnation with donated funds, such lands and interests in land 
within an area of not to exceed thirty acres as he may select in the 
vicinity of Tampa Bay and Bradenton, Florida, and to construct thereon a 
suitable memorial structure, together with such connecting roads and 
public facilities as may be desirable.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``purchasable''.
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(Mar. 11, 1948, ch. 109, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 78; Pub. L. 86-728, Sec. 1A, 
Sept. 8, 1960, 74 Stat. 856.)


                               Amendments

    1960--Pub. L. 86-728 increased limitation on acquisition of land 
from twenty-five to thirty acres.


                     Authorization of Appropriations

    Section 3 of act Mar. 11, 1948, as amended Aug. 21, 1950, ch. 768, 
64 Stat. 469; Sept. 8, 1960, Pub. L. 86-728, Sec. 1B, 74 Stat. 856; Nov. 
10, 1978, Pub. L. 95-625, title I, Sec. 101(8), 92 Stat. 3471; Oct. 12, 
1979, Pub. L. 96-87, title IV, Sec. 401(a), 93 Stat. 665, provided that: 
``There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed 
$292,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act 
[sections 450dd and 450dd-1 of this title].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 450dd-1 of this title.
