§410hhh–6 Acquisition of property and boundary adjustments

Summary

The Secretary may acquire land inside the area shown on the map as the “Acquisition Area” or the national monument by buying it, accepting donations, getting it from another federal agency, or trading for it — but only if the landowner agrees. Land owned by the State of Colorado or its local governments can be taken only by donation or exchange. After the government gets any land, the Secretary must quickly change the unit’s boundary to include it. The Secretary will give day-to-day control of new lands either to the National Park Service (to add to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument or, later, the Great Sand Dunes National Park or Preserve), to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (to add to the Baca National Wildlife Refuge), or, for lands shown in Zone B, to the Secretary of Agriculture to add to the Rio Grande National Forest. For purposes of sections 100506(c) and 200306 of title 54, those revised forest boundaries count as the forest’s official boundaries.