§ 81j. — Transfer of lands to Secretary of Navy.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC81j]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER IX--COLONIAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Sec. 81j. Transfer of lands to Secretary of Navy
The Secretary of the Interior be, and he is, authorized and directed
to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy complete control and
jurisdiction over a parcel of land within the Colonial National
Historical Park, Yorktown, Virginia, described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the existing property line between the
United States naval mine depot and the Colonial National Monument
Parkway properties, said point being a fence corner seven hundred and
sixty-five feet, more or less, southeast of the marine barracks gate;
thence south fifty-six degrees thirty-eight minutes east fifty-three and
fifteen one-hundredths feet, more or less; thence south fifty degrees
sixteen minutes east three hundred and twelve feet, more or less; thence
south thirty-nine degrees forty-four minutes west one hundred and
twenty-five and seven one-hundredths feet, more or less, to the property
line between the United States naval mine depot and the Colonial
National Monument Parkway; thence along the said property line north
thirty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes west one hundred and twenty-eight
and ninety-six one-hundredths feet, more or less; thence continuing
along said property line north twenty-eight degrees eighteen minutes
west two hundred and fifty-six and fifty-nine one-hundredths feet, more
or less, to the point of beginning; containing six hundred and twenty-
one one-thousandths of an acre, more or less.
(Dec. 23, 1944, ch. 721, 58 Stat. 923.)
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of act July 3, 1930, ch. 837, 46
Stat. 855, which comprises this subchapter.
Sewage-Disposal System for Yorktown Area
Act Mar. 29, 1956, ch. 111, 70 Stat. 64, provided for the
modernization of the sanitary facilities in the Yorktown area of
Colonial National Historical Park, and in anticipation of the 1957
Jamestown-Williamsburg-Yorktown celebration, authorized the Secretary of
the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain a sewage-disposal
system to serve Federal and non-Federal properties in the Yorktown area.
Temporary Transfer of Jurisdiction of Portion
Act Dec. 24, 1942, ch. 820, 56 Stat. 1085, provided: ``That the
Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed
to transfer to the control and jurisdiction of the Department of the
Navy a portion of the Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown,
Virginia, south of Ballards Creek and adjacent to the east boundary of
the naval mine depot, containing approximately sixteen acres.
``Sec. 2. The President of the United States is authorized by
Executive order to retransfer jurisdiction over the property to the
Secretary of the Interior upon his application when, in the judgment of
the President, the property has become surplus to the needs of the
Department of the Navy, in which event it again shall become a part of
the Colonial National Historical Park.''
