16 Usc 516

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Agreement to Initiate (ATI) and Exchange Agreement (EA)

16 USC 516

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                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 516. Exchange of lands in the public interest; equal value; 
        cutting and removing timber; publication of contemplated 
        exchange
        
    When the public interests will be benefited thereby, the Secretary 
of Agriculture is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept on 
behalf of the United States title to any lands within the exterior 
boundaries of national forests which, in his opinion, are chiefly 
valuable for the purposes of this Act, and in exchange therefor to 
convey by deed not to exceed an equal value of such national forest land 
in the same State, or he may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an 
equal value of timber within such national forests in the same State, 
the values in each case to be determined by him: Provided, That before 
any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated exchange 
reciting the lands involved shall be published once each week for four 
successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county 
or counties in which may be situated the lands to be accepted, and in 
some like newspaper published in any county in which may be situated any 
lands or timber to be given in such exchange. Timber given in such 
exchanges shall be cut and removed under the laws and regulations 
relating to such national forests, and under the direction and 
supervision and in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of 
Agriculture. Lands so accepted by the Secretary of Agriculture shall, 
upon acceptance, become parts of the national forests within whose 
exterior boundaries they are located, and be subjected to all provisions 
of this Act.

(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, Sec. 7, 36 Stat. 962; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 473, 43 
Stat. 1215; Pub. L. 94-588, Sec. 17(a)(4), Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 
2961.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 
Stat. 961, as amended, popularly known as the Weeks Law, which is 
classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of this 
title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 552 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 94-588 substituted ``When the public interests will be 
benefited thereby, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, in 
his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any 
lands within the exterior boundaries of national forests which, in his 
opinion, are chiefly valuable for the purposes of this Act, and in 
exchange therefor to convey by deed not to exceed an equal value of such 
national forest land in the same State, or he may authorize the grantor 
to cut and remove an equal value of timber within such national forests 
in the same State, the values in each case to be determined by him: 
Provided, That before'' for ``The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
to purchase, in the name of the United States, such lands as have been 
approved for purchase by the National Forest Reservation Commission at 
the price or prices fixed by said commission. No deed or other 
instrument of conveyance shall be accepted or approved by the Secretary 
of Agriculture under this section until the legislature of the State in 
which the land lies shall have consented to the acquisition of such land 
by the United States for the purpose of preserving the navigability of 
navigable streams. With the approval of the National Forest Reservation 
Commission as provided by this section and section 515 of this title, 
and when the public interests will be benefited thereby, the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of 
the United States title to any lands within the exterior boundaries of 
national forests acquired under said sections which, in his opinion, are 
chiefly valuable for the purposes as therein stated, and in exchange 
therefor to convey by deed not to exceed an equal value of such national 
forest land in the same State, or he may authorize the grantor to cut 
and remove an equal value of timber within such national forests in the 
same State, the values in each case to be determined by him. Before''.
    1925--Act Mar. 3, 1925, inserted provisions covering the exchange of 
lands.


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