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LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 164 Eliminating private holdings of lands; timber or public lands of equal value in exchange us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 1 NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES 164 16 U.S.C. § 164 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip /us/usc/t16/s164 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml 3a6dbd274043b53016caa0e78f533684d368101d79703116726986d4878112d0 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 d86d84970e9d0e1255ab5ac8b6a7333beefbbcf7f69e257c0a88a9a03ac774d5 2026-07-04 official
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16 U.S.C. § 164 - Eliminating private holdings of lands; timber or public lands of equal value in exchange

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The Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of eliminating private holdings within the Glacier National Park and the preservation intact of the natural forest along the roads in the scenic portions of the park, both on patented and park lands, is empowered, in his discretion: (1) To obtain for the United States the complete title to any or all of the lands held in private or State ownership within the boundaries of said park within townships 32 and 33 north, ranges 18 and 19 west of Montana principal meridian, by the exchange of dead, decadent, or matured timber of approximately equal values that can be removed from any part of the park without injuriously affecting the scenic beauty thereof; or, upon the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, the timber to be selected or exchanged may be taken from the Government lands within the metes and bounds of the national forests within the State of Montana, or, (2) to obtain for the United States the complete title to any or all of the lands held in private ownership within the boundaries of said park by accepting from the owners of such privately owned lands complete relinquishment thereof and by granting and patenting to such owners, in exchange therefor, in each instance, like public land of equal value situate in the State of Montana, after due notice of the proposed exchange has been given by publication for not less than thirty days in the counties where the lands proposed to be exchanged or taken in exchange are located.

(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, § 1, 39 Stat. 1122; Feb. 28, 1923, ch. 144, § 1, 42 Stat. 1324.)

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Codification Section is based on section 1 of act Mar. 3, 1917, and section 1 of act Feb. 23, 1923; subdivision (1) being from the former and subdivision (2) being from the latter act. Of the language preceding subdivision (1), that portion from the beginning of the section to the word “and” was common to both of the sections aforesaid, while the remaining portion was derived from section 1 of act Mar. 3, 1917.