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LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 444 Petrified Forest National Monument; elimination of private holdings of land within boundaries; exchange of lands us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 1 NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES 444 16 U.S.C. § 444 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/s444 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml a153605d59a136b88f4ae2f241c8ec3c7784d2db72d8f62b4391b124826f0fa9 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 e7e25299785ea95719a80bfaa97dc4614577a005202ccd602aebe874e1bc9894 2026-07-04 official
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16 U.S.C. § 444 - Petrified Forest National Monument; elimination of private holdings of land within boundaries; exchange of lands

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The Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of eliminating private holdings of land within the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona, is empowered, in his discretion, to obtain for the United States the complete title to any or all of the lands held in private ownership within the boundaries of the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona, as now or as may be hereafter defined, 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 lands of equal value situated in Navajo and/or Apache Counties, in the State of Arizona, 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: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall, on application or otherwise, designate public lands located outside the extreme boundaries of the said monument subject to exchange under this section which are, in his opinion, chiefly valuable for grazing and raising forage crops, do not contain merchantable timber, are not susceptible of irrigation from any known source of water supply, and are of character similar to the privately owned lands offered in exchange.

(May 14, 1930, ch. 271, § 1, 46 Stat. 278.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Disestablishment of Petrified Forest National MonumentDisestablishment of Petrified Forest National Monument upon establishment of Petrified Forest National Park, see section 119 of this title.