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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "16 U.S.C. § 577c"
+description: "Acquisition of additional lands in northern Minnesota"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 16
+title_name: "CONSERVATION"
+chapter_number: "3"
+chapter_name: "FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT"
+section: "577c"
+citation: "16 U.S.C. § 577c"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s577c"
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+---
+
+# 16 U.S.C. § 577c - Acquisition of additional lands in northern Minnesota
+
+## Text
+
+To protect and administer more effectively the publicly owned lands within certain parts of the area described in section 577 of this title, and to accomplish certain public purposes explicit and implicit in sections 577a and 577b of this title, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to acquire any lands or interest in lands, and appurtenances thereto, situated within the area described in section 577d of this title, where in his opinion development or exploitation, or the potentialities for development or exploitation, impair or threaten to impair the unique qualities and natural features of the remaining wilderness canoe country.
+
+(June 22, 1948, ch. 593, § 1, 62 Stat. 568; Pub. L. 87–351, Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 772.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments1961—Pub. L. 87–351 removed the restriction on condemnation of contiguous tracts of land in one ownership, not exceeding five hundred acres in the aggregate, if the lands were encumbered with structures of a permanent type suitable for human occupancy and if the owners thereof filed written objections before expiration of the time for answering the petition in the proceedings.
+
+Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
+
+Short TitleThe act of June 22, 1948, ch. 593, 62 Stat. 568, as amended, which is classified to sections 577c, 577d, and 577e to 577h of this title, is popularly known as the “Thye-Blatnik Act”.