Parks and Conservation Areas 

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter LXXXII > § 460x-6 - Taxing power

(a) Authority of Secretary; manner of acquisition; procedure for
  lands partly within designated area
  The Secretary is authorized to acquire by donation, purchase with
donated or appropriated funds, transfer funds, transfer from any
Federal agency, or exchange lands and interests therein for the
purposes of this subchapter. When an individual tract of land is
only partly within the area designated, the Secretary may acquire
the entire tract by any of the above methods to avoid the payment
of severance costs. Land so acquired outside the designated area
may be exchanged by the Secretary for non-Federal lands within such
area, and any portion of the land not utilized for such exchanges
may be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the Federal
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.
(b) Sale offers; hardship from delay; time and manner of purchase
  In exercising his authority to acquire property under this
subchapter, the Secretary shall give immediate and careful
consideration to any offer made by an individual owning property
within the lakeshore to sell such property to the Secretary. An
individual owning property within the lakeshore may notify the
Secretary that the continued ownership by such individual of that
property would result in hardship to him, and the Secretary shall
immediately consider such evidence and shall within one year
following the submission of such notice, subject to the
availability of funds, purchase such property offered for a price
which does not exceed its fair market value.
(c) State donations; transfer from Federal agency to administrative
  jurisdiction of Secretary
  Any property or interests therein, owned by the State of Michigan
or any political subdivisions thereof, may be acquired only by
donation. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any property
owned by the United States on October 21, 1970, located within such
area may, with the concurrence of the agency having custody
thereof, be transferred without consideration to the administrative
jurisdiction of the Secretary for use by him in carrying out the
provisions of this subchapter.
(d) Initiation of condemnation proceedings subsequent to failure of
  Secretary to negotiate for purchase of property; certificate of
  compliance with negotiation procedure
  With respect to that property which the Secretary is authorized
to acquire by condemnation under the terms of this subchapter, the
Secretary shall initiate no condemnation proceedings until after he
has made every reasonable effort to acquire such property by
negotiation and purchase. The certificate of the determination by
the Secretary or his designated representative that there has been
compliance with the provisions of this subsection and of subsection
(b) of this section shall be prima facie evidence of such
compliance.
(e) Condemnation to acquire clear, marketable, and encumbrance-free
  title
  Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the use
of condemnation as a means of acquiring a clear and marketable
title, free of any and all encumbrances.

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