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16 U.S.C. § 505a — Interchange of lands between Department of Agriculture and military departments of Department of Defense; report to Congress
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The Secretary of Agriculture with respect to National Forest System 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 unit of the National Forest System are authorized, subject to any applicable provisions of chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41, 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 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 Congress by the respective Secretaries of notice of intention to make the interchange.
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The Secretary of Agriculture with respect to National Forest System 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 unit of the National Forest System are authorized, subject to any applicable provisions of chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41, 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 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 Congress by the respective Secretaries of notice of intention to make the interchange.
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Any National Forest System lands which are transferred to a military department in accordance with this section and [section 505a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section505a&num=0&edition=prelim) 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 section and [section 505a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section505a&num=0&edition=prelim) shall become subject to the laws applicable to lands acquired under the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), as amended. Lands interchanged under the authority of this section and [section 505a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section505a&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be deemed to include interests in lands.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 505b
sale thereof to be credited to the appropriation
or appropriations of the Forest Service cur-
rently available for the procurement or produc-
tion of seed or nursery stock at the time such
moneys are deposited: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may exchange with such
public agencies forest-tree seed and nursery
stock for forest-tree seed or nursery stock of the
same or different species upon a determination
that such exchange is in the interest of the
United States and that the value of the property
given in exchange does not exceed the value of
the property received: Provided further, That no
nursery stock shall be sold or exchanged under
this section as ornamental or other stock for
landscape planting of the types commonly
grown by established commercial nurserymen.
(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 9, 64 Stat. 85.)
§ 505. Use of national forests established on land
reserved for purposes of national defense;
maintenance available
Where a national forest is established under
section 471(b) of this title on land previously re-
served for the Army or Navy for purposes of na-
tional defense the land shall remain subject to
the unhampered use of the Department of the
Army or Navy Department for said purposes and
nothing in this section or section 471(b) of this
title shall be construed to relinquish the author-
ity over such lands for purposes of national de-
fense now vested in the department for which
the lands were formerly reserved. Any moneys
available for the maintenance, improvement,
protection, construction of highways and gen-
eral administration of the national forests shall
be available for expenditure on national forests
created under this section.
(June 7, 1924, ch. 348, § 9, 43 Stat. 655;
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