In order to consolidate, on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Natchez Trace Parkway, the land forming each such parkway, to adjust ownership lines, and to eliminate hazardous crossings of and accesses to these parkways, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, by purchase or exchange, land and interests in land contiguous to the parkways. In consummating exchanges under this section, the Secretary may transfer parkway land, interests therein, and easements: , That the property rights so exchanged shall be approximately equal in value.
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CHAPTER 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXV— NATIONAL PARKWAYS
§ 460–1. Inclusion of Ackia Battleground National Monument and Meriwether Lewis National Monument
§ 460a. Licenses or permits for right-of-way over parkway lands
§ 460a–1. Acceptance of lands conveyed for Blue Ridge or Natchez Trace Parkways
§ 460a–2. Blue Ridge Parkway; establishment; administration and maintenance
§ 460a–3. Licenses or permits to owners of adjacent lands
§ 460a–4. Transfer of jurisdiction to Secretary of Agriculture; national forest lands
§ 460a–5. Acquisition of land contiguous to Blue Ridge or Natchez Trace Parkways
§ 460a–8. Licenses or permits for rights-of-way over parkway lands
§ 460a–9. Part of Blue Ridge Parkway; administration and maintenance of parkway extension
§ 460a–10. Transfer of national forest lands to Secretary of Agriculture