Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§460uu–42 Acquisition of Lands and Interests
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER CVI — EL MALPAIS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND CONSERVATION AREA › Part E — General Provisions › § 460uu–42
Summary
Secretary may acquire lands and land rights in both areas by donation, purchase, exchange, or transfer; State or local government lands only by exchange. Congress expects non‑Federal subsurface interests acquired no later than three full fiscal years after the fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter.
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Title 16, §460uu–42
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Within the monument and the conservation area, the Secretary is authorized to acquire lands and interests in lands by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, exchange, or transfer from any other Federal agency, except that such lands or interests therein owned by the State of New Mexico or a political subdivision thereof may be acquired only by exchange. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary is to complete the acquisition of non-Federal subsurface interests underlying the monument and the conservation area no later than three full fiscal years after the fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter.
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The fiscal year of enactment of this subchapter, referred to in text, is the fiscal year of the enactment of Pub. L. 100–225, which enacted this subchapter, and was approved Dec. 31, 1987.
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16 U.S.C. § 460uu–42
Title 16, Conservation
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Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102