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[CITE: 40USC89]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 89. Potomac Park; temporary occupancy by Department of 
        Agriculture
        
    The Director of the National Park Service is authorized to grant 
permission to the Department of Agriculture for the temporary occupation 
of such area or areas of Potomac Park, not exceeding a total of seventy-
five acres in extent, as may not be needed in any one season for the 
reclamation or park improvement, the said areas to be used by the 
Department of Agriculture as testing grounds: Provided, That nothing 
herein contained shall be construed to change the essential character of 
the lands so used, which lands shall continue to be a public park, as 
provided in section 86 of this title: And provided further, That said 
area or areas shall be vacated by the Department of Agriculture at the 
close of any season upon the request of the said director: And provided 
further, That the entire park shall remain under the charge of the said 
director.

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 458, Sec. 2, 30 Stat. 1378; Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 339, 
Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 983; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, eff. June 10, 1933; 
Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, 48 Stat. 389.)

                       References in Text

    Section 86 of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the 
Code. See D.C. Code, Sec. 8-147.

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 8-150.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Duties imposed upon Secretary of War in relation to grounds, parks, 
etc., in District of Columbia transferred to Director of Public 
Buildings and Public Parks of National Capital by act Feb. 26, 1925.
    Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of National Capital 
abolished and its functions transferred to Office of National Parks, 
Buildings, and Reservations of Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. 
No. 6166. Name of latter office changed to ``National Park Service'' by 
act Mar. 2, 1934.
