16 U.S.C. § 251a — Additional lands

Page 153 TITLE 16—CONSERVATION § 251b north, range 4 west, sections 1 to 12, 17 to 20, and 29 to 32, inclusive (unsurveyed); township 27 north, range 4 west, sections 5 to 8, 17 to 20, and 29 to 36, inclusive (unsurveyed); township 28 north, range 4 west, sections 17 to 22, and 27 to 34, inclusive (unsurveyed); townships 25, 26, and 27 north, range 5 west (unsurveyed), township 28 north, range 5 west, sections 7 to 36, inclusive (unsurveyed); township 24 north, range 6 west, sections 3 to 10, 15 to 22, and 27 to 34, inclusive (unsurveyed); townships 25, 26, and 27 north, range 6 west (unsurveyed); township 28 north, range 6 west, sections 7 to 36, inclusive (unsurveyed); townships 24, 25, 26, and 27 north range 7 west (unsurveyed); township 28 north, range 7 west, sections 5 to 36, inclusive (unsurveyed); township 24 north, range 8 west, sections 1 to 18, inclusive (partly surveyed); townships 25, 26, 27, and 28 north, range 8 west (unsurveyed); township 29 north, range 8 west, sections 6, 7, 18, 19 to 21, and 28 to 33, inclusive (unsurveyed); township 30 north, range 8 west, sections 18, 19, 30, and 31 (partly surveyed); township 24 north, range 9 west, sections 1 2, 11, 12, 13, and 14 (partly surveyed); township 25 north, range 9 west (unsurveyed); township 26 north, range 9 west, sections 1 to 18, inclusive (unsurveyed) each half of section 19 (unsurveyed), sections 20 to 29, and 32 to 36, in- clusive (surveyed); townships 27 and 28 north, range 9 west (unsurveyed); township 29 north, range 9 west (partly surveyed); township 30 north, range 9 west, sections 13, 14, and 23 to 36, inclusive (partly surveyed); township 26 north, range 10 west, sections 1, 12, and 13 (surveyed); township 27 north, range 10 west, sections 1 to 6, inclusive, 12, 13, 24, 25, and 36 (surveyed); town- ship 28 north, range 10 west, south half section 7, south half section 8, south half section 9, south half section 10, south half section 11, south half section 12, sections 13 to 36, inclusive (unsurveyed) all west of the Willamette merid- ian, in Washington, are reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or disposal under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a public park for the benefit and en- joyment of the people and shall be known as the Olympic National Park, and all lands formerly included in the Mount Olympus National Monu- ment and not included in the above description are transferred to and made a part of the Olym- pic National Forest. (June 29, 1938, ch. 812, § 1, 52 Stat. 1241.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SHORT TITLE OF 2010 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 111–323, § 1, Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3532, pro- vided that: ‘‘This Act [enacting provisions set out as a note under this section] may be cited as the ‘Hoh In- dian Tribe Safe Homelands Act’.’’ QUILEUTE TRIBE—REDESIGNATIONS AND CONVEYANCES Pub. L. 112–97, Feb. 27, 2012, 126 Stat. 257, provided for removal of certain Federal land in the Olympic Na- tional Park from the National Wilderness Preservation System and placement of certain land in trust for the benefit of the Quileute Indian Tribe to grant the Tribe access to land outside the tsunami zone and resolve a dispute over the northern boundary of their Reserva- tion. HOH INDIAN TRIBE SAFE HOMELANDS Pub. L. 111–323, §§ 2, 3(a)(1), Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3532, provided that, effective Dec. 22, 2010, a parcel of Federal land of approximately 37 acres, administered by the Na- tional Park Service, and depicted on the Hoh Indian Tribe Safe Homelands Act Land Acquisition Map, is considered held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Tribe and shall be excluded from the boundaries of Olympic National Park. LAND EXCHANGE WITH CITY OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON Pub. L. 102–436, title I, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2217, pro- vided that if the city of Tacoma offered to convey to the United States approximately 45 acres of land lo- cated in the Soleduck and Quileute areas within the boundary of Olympic National Park, in exchange for approximately 30 acres of land adjacent to Lake Cushman as depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Proposed Boundary Revision Olympic National Park’’ and dated July 29, 1991, then the Secretary of the Interior was to carry out such exchange, provided Tacoma could de- liver clear and unencumbered title, and subject to the laws and regulations applicable to exchanges of land in the National Park System, adjustment of the Olympic National Park boundaries, and additional provisions excluding such exchange from affecting the operating level of Cushman Reservoir, rights of possible interve- nors in the Cushman Project, or fishing rights of the Skokomish Tribe or any other Indian tribe. [Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(c) [title I, § 116], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–156, 1321–178; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327, re- quired the Department of the Interior to issue a spe- cific schedule for the completion of title I of Pub. L. 102–436 (formerly set out above) within 30 days after Apr. 26, 1996, and to complete the land exchange not later than Sept. 30, 1996.] ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN BUILDINGS, ETC.; APPROPRIATION Act Dec. 6, 1944, ch. 506, 58 Stat. 793, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to purchase buildings and fix- tures of the Olympic Recreation Company and the Olympic Chalet Company, and appropriated $35,000 for that purpose. § 251a. Additional lands Title to State, county, and private lands situ- ated north of the line between townships 27 and 28 north, Willamette base and meridian, Wash- ington, and within the boundaries of the Olym- pic National Park as now or hereafter estab- lished by proclamation of the President of the United States, shall be subject to acceptance under the provisions of section 485 of this title, and such lands when vested in the ownership of the United States shall be a part of the Olympic National Park subject to all laws and regula- tions applicable thereto. (Dec. 22, 1942, ch. 800, 56 Stat. 1070.) § 251b. Exchange of lands The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to exchange approximately six thousand six hun- dred eight and ninety-six one-hundredths acres of land adjacent to the Queets Corridor and Ocean Strip portions of Olympic National Park, which were originally acquired by the Federal Government for public works purposes, for lands and interest in lands not in Federal ownership within the exterior boundaries of the park: Pro- vided, That the lands so exchanged shall be of approximately equal value. (Pub. L. 85–455, § 1, June 11, 1958, 72 Stat. 185.)