16 USC 484a

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TITLE 16--CONSERVATION

CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS

SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 484a. Exchange of lands in national forests; public
schools; deposit of funds by school authority with insufficient
exchange land; limitations on use

Whenever an exchange of land is proposed by a State, county, or
municipal government or public school district or other public school
authority under sections 485 and 486 of this title or other authority
under which the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to exchange
national forest lands or other lands administered by the Forest Service,
if the State, county, or municipal government or public school authority
proposing the exchange has insufficient land to offer, the exchange may
be completed upon deposit with the Secretary of Agriculture of a portion
or all of the value of the selected land. Any amount so deposited shall
be covered into a special fund in the Treasury which when appropriated
shall be available until expended by the Secretary of Agriculture for
the acquisition of lands in the same State as the selected lands and
which are determined by him to be suitable for the same purposes as the
selected lands. Lands so acquired shall have the same status and shall
be subject to the same laws, regulations, and rules as the selected
lands.
The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to the
conveyance in exchange of more than eighty acres to any one State,
county, or municipal government or public school district or other
public school authority. Lands may be conveyed to any State, county, or
municipal government pursuant to this section only if the lands were
being utilized by such entities on January 12, 1983. Lands so conveyed
may be used only for the purposes for which they were being used prior
to conveyance.

(Pub. L. 90-171, Dec. 4, 1967, 81 Stat. 531; Pub. L. 97-465, Sec. 8,
Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2536.)

Amendments

1983--Pub. L. 97-465 inserted references to State, county, or
municipal government in three places in existing provisions and inserted
provision authorizing the conveyance of lands to any State, county, or
municipal government pursuant to this section only if the lands were
being utilized by such entities on January 12, 1983, and requiring that
lands so conveyed be used only for the purposes for which they were
being used prior to conveyance.