Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§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 Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can allow grantees who received recreational demonstration project lands under sections 459r to 459t to trade or otherwise dispose of those lands to get other lands of about the same value. The Secretary can remove a clause that would make the land return to the United States for the specific lands swapped, but only if the grantee agrees, in a form the Secretary approves, that the new lands will be bound by the same original conditions. Instead of an automatic return, the grantee must agree to convey the lands back to the United States if the Secretary, using the same procedure in those sections, finds the grantee has failed to follow the conditions for more than three years. Lands returned this way will be handled the same as lands that revert under those sections.

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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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16 U.S.C. § 459u

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60