16 USC § 157b - Additional lands within park boundaries

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s157b"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 157b - Additional lands within park boundaries"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "157b"
section_name: "Additional lands within park boundaries"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "XVII"
subchapter_name: "BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)"
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# § 157b. Additional lands within park boundaries

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to procure, in such manner as he may consider to be in the public interest, the remaining non-Federal land and interests in land within the boundaries of Big Bend National Park.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)