Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§79e Exchange of Property; Cash Equalization Payments; Commercial Operations, Minimum Economic Dislocation and Disruption

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER VII — REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK › § 79e

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can trade for private land inside the park, and for private land outside the park within the limits set by this subchapter. He can trade federal Bureau of Land Management lands in California for that private land, except lands needed for public use or management and except the Yurok Experimental Forest in the Northern Redwood Purchase Unit in Del Norte County (about 935 acres). Federal land can be used instead of, or with, cash to pay for taken property. Trades must be about equal in value or balanced with cash, and the Secretary must try to avoid harming the owner’s business or causing major economic disruption.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §79e

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In exercising his authority to acquire property by exchange, the Secretary may accept title to any non-Federal property within the boundaries of the park, and outside of such boundaries within the limits prescribed in this subchapter. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may acquire such property from the grantor by exchange for any federally owned property under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in California, except property needed for public use and management, which he classifies as suitable for exchange or other disposal, or any federally owned property he may designate within the Northern Redwood Purchase Unit in Del Norte County, California, except that section known and designated as the Yurok Experimental Forest, consisting of approximately nine hundred and thirty-five acres. Such federally owned property shall also be available for use by the Secretary in lieu of, or together with, cash in payment of just compensation for any real property taken pursuant to section 79c(b) of this title. The values of the properties so exchanged either shall be approximately equal or, if they are not approximately equal, the value shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secretary as the circumstances require. Through the exercise of his exchange authority, the Secretary shall, to the extent possible, minimize economic dislocation and the disruption of the grantor’s commercial operations.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 79e

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102