Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 484a. Exchange of lands in national forests; public schools; deposit of funds by school authority with insufficient exchange land; limitations on use
Statutory text
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 . Lands so conveyed may be used only for the purposes for which they were being used prior to conveyance.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 90–171 · 81 Stat. 531
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 484a
Pub. L. 90–171, Dec. 4, 1967, 81 Stat. 531
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–171, Dec. 4, 1967, 81 Stat. 531Pub. L. 97–465 § 8 · 96 Stat. 2535
Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 484a
Pub. L. 97–465 inserted references to State, county, or municipal government in three places in existing provisions
Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 484a
Pub. L. 97–465 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
Source evidence
Code amendment note
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.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 8. (a) The Act of December 4, 1967 (81 Stat. 531), is amended by inserting before the phrase “public school district” wherever it appears, and before the phrase “public school authority” the second time it appears, the words “State, county, or municipal government or”. (b) The Act of December 4, 1967 (81 Stat. 531), is further amended 16 USC 484a. by adding the following at the end thereof: “Lands may be conveyed to any State, county, or municipal government pursuant to this Act only if the lands were being utilized by such entities on the date of enactment of this sentence. Lands so conveyed may be used only for the purposes for which they were being used prior to conveyance.”.
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
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 , and requiring that lands so conveyed be used only for the purposes for which they were being used prior to conveyance.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
This section is popularly known as the Sisk Act.
Credits
1967–1983 · 2 acts
- 1967Pub. L. 90–171, , 81 Stat. 531
- 1983Pub. L. 97–465, § 8, , 96 Stat. 2536.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 90–171, , 81 Stat. 531; Pub. L. 97–465, § 8, , 96 Stat. 2536.)