§482i Plumas National Forest; offer of lands; additions; mining rights

Summary

Private lands in the areas listed that the Secretary of Agriculture finds mainly useful for national-forest purposes can be offered for exchange under sections 485 and 486; if the title is accepted, those lands become part of the Plumas National Forest. Government-owned lands in those areas that both the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior find mainly useful for national-forest purposes and that are not already in a national forest may be added by a Presidential proclamation, subject to valid claims and existing withdrawals. Any lands received in exchange are open to mineral locations, mineral development, and patenting under the mining laws of the United States. Area: Township 18 North, Range 7 East, Mount Diablo base and meridian, California — Sections 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 22, 23, 26, and 27.