Volume 70 · 657
Public Law 84–804
To authorize the interchange of lands between the Department of Agriculture and military departments of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Approved July 26, 1956
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the interchange of lands between the Department of Agriculture and military departments of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to national forest lands and the Secretary of a military department with respect to lands under the control of the military department which lie within or adjacent to the exterior boundaries of a national forest are authorized, subject to any applicable provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services
Act of 1949, as amended, to interchange such lands, or any part thereof, without reimbursement or transfer of funds whenever they shall determine that such interchange will facilitate land management and will
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provide maximum use thereof for authorized purposes: Provided, That no such interchange of lands shall become effective until forty-five days (counting only days occurring during any regular or special session of the Congress) after the submission to the Confess by the respective Secretaries of notice of intention to make the interchange.
Sec. 2.
Any national forest lands which are transferred to a military
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department in accordance with this Act shall be thereafter subject only to the laws applicable to other lands within the military installation or other public works project for which such lands are required and any lands which are transferred to the Department of Agriculture in accordance with this Act shall become subject to the laws applicable to lands acquired under the Act of March 1, 1911 (36
Stat. 961), as amended.
Approved July 26, 1956.