Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§459u Exchange of Recreational Demonstration Project Lands by Grantee

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXIV — RECREATIONAL DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS › § 459u

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Interior Secretary may let grantees under sections 459r–459t trade or sell lands they were given so they can get other lands of about the same value. The Secretary can remove any clause that would automatically return ownership to the United States for the lands involved. Removing that clause is allowed only if the grantee agrees the new lands will follow the original transfer rules and will be given back to the United States if the Secretary finds the grantee failed to follow those rules for more than three years. Lands returned this way will be handled the same as other reverted project lands.

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Title 16, §459u

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In order to facilitate the administration of former recreational demonstration project lands and to consolidate the holdings of the grantees to whom such lands have been or may be granted pursuant to sections 459r to 459t of this title, the Secretary of the Interior may authorize any such grantee to exchange or otherwise dispose of any lands or interests in lands conveyed to it in order to acquire other lands or interests therein of approximately equal value. For the aforesaid purpose, the Secretary is authorized to execute a release, as to the particular lands involved, of any condition providing for a reversion of title to the United States, that may be contained in the conveyance by the United States to said grantee. No such release shall be executed, however, unless the grantee shall agree, in form satisfactory to the Secretary, that the lands to be acquired by it shall be subject to the conditions contained in the original conveyance from the United States, except that in lieu of a provision for reversion, the grantee shall agree to convey said lands to the United States upon a finding by the Secretary in accordance with the procedure provided in said sections, that the grantee has not complied with such conditions during a period of more than three years. Lands so conveyed to the United States shall be subject to administration or disposition in like manner as recreational demonstration project lands that revert to the United States under the terms of the aforesaid sections.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 459u

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102