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LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 485 Exchange of lands in national forests; cutting timber in national forests in exchange for lands therein us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 2 NATIONAL FORESTS 485 16 U.S.C. § 485 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/s485 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml 186ea1675ededecb2153aeb4f6b3365b7084b359553f7955443ca97503109600 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 5b8e8407329d76fd41a1124790489df11524d2d1061819d7f7ae67e603aa921b 2026-07-04 official
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16 U.S.C. § 485 - Exchange of lands in national forests; cutting timber in national forests in exchange for lands therein

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When the public interests will be benefited thereby, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in his discretion to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands within the exterior boundaries of the national forests which, in his opinion, are chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes, and in exchange therefor may patent not to exceed an equal value of such national-forest land, in the same State, surveyed and nonmineral in character, or he may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an equal value of timber within the national forests of the same State; the values in each case to be determined by him. Before any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given in such exchange. Timber given in such exchanges shall be cut and removed under the laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and under the direction and supervision and in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Lands conveyed to the United States under this section and section 486 of this title shall, upon acceptance of title, become parts of the national forest within whose exterior boundaries they are located.

(Mar. 20, 1922, ch. 105, § 1, 42 Stat. 465; Pub. L. 86509, § 1(a), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions Functions of Secretary of the Interior under this section and section 486 of this title, with respect to exchanges of non-Federal lands for national forest lands or timber, transferred to Secretary of Agriculture, see Pub. L. 86509, June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205, set out as a note under section 2201 of Title 7, Agriculture. “Secretary of Agriculture is authorized”, “in his opinion”, “he may authorize” and “the values in each case to be determined by him” substituted in text for “Secretary of the Interior is authorized”, “in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture”, “the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize” and “the values in each case to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture”, respectively, in view of transfer of functions under this section to Secretary of Agriculture from Secretary of the Interior by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 86509, set out as a note under section 2201 of Title 7.