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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

§ 577f. Exchange of lands

Statutory text

Upon finding and determination by the Secretary of Agriculture that the public purposes and objectives explicit and implicit in sections 577 to 577b of this title, more effectively can be accomplished by exchanging lands of the United States situated within the boundaries described in said sections for other lands in State, county, or private ownership situated within the said boundaries which are more suitable for public ownership, management, and use, for the purposes contemplated by said sections, such lands of the United States shall be subject to exchange under the provisions of sections 485 and 486 of this title, or the provisions of section 516 of this title.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 80–593 § 4 · 62 Stat. 568

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 577f

    (June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 4, 62 Stat. 570.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 4, 62 Stat. 570.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Exchange of lands. That upon finding and determination by the Secretary of Agriculture that the public purposes and objectives explicit and implicit in the Act approved July 10, 1930 (46 Stat. 1020), more effectively can be 16 U. S. C. §§ 577–577b. accomplished by exchanging lands of the United States situated within the boundaries described in said Act for other lands in State, county, or private ownership situated within the said boundaries which are more suitable for public ownership, management, and use, for the purposes contemplated by said Act, such lands of the United States shall be subject to exchange under the provisions 16 U. S. C. §§ 485, 486. 16 U. S. C. § 516. Annual payments. of the Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as amended, or the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1215).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 4, 62 Stat. 570.)

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