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title: "16 U.S.C. § 450ff–4"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 450ff–4 - Acquisition of lands

## Text

The Secretary of the Interior may acquire in such manner as he may consider to be in the public interest the non-Federal lands and interests in lands within the revised boundaries.

(Pub. L. 87–78, § 2, June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 197.)