§484a Exchange of lands in national forests; public schools; deposit of funds by school authority with insufficient exchange land; limitations on use

Summary

State, county, city governments and public school authorities can finish a land exchange with the Forest Service even if they do not have enough land to trade. They can pay part or all of the value of the chosen federal land to the Secretary of Agriculture. That money goes into a special Treasury fund. When Congress allows spending, the Secretary can use it to buy land in the same State for the same purposes, and the new land follows the same rules as the original. This option cannot be used to give more than eighty acres to any one government or public school authority. Land can be conveyed this way only if the government was using that land on January 12, 1983, and it must keep using the land for the same purpose.