16 U.S.C. § 484a : US Code - Section 484A: Exchange of lands in national forests; public schools; deposit of funds by school authority with insufficient exchange land; limitations on use

Search 16 U.S.C. § 484a : US Code - Section 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.