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[CITE: 16USC1285a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                   CHAPTER 28--WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS
 
Sec. 1285a. Lease of Federal lands


(a) Authority of Secretary; restrictive covenants

    Where appropriate in the discretion of the Secretary, he may lease 
federally owned land (or any interest therein) which is within the 
boundaries of any component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System and which has been acquired by the Secretary under this chapter. 
Such lease shall be subject to such restrictive covenants as may be 
necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

(b) Offer to prior owner

    Any land to be leased by the Secretary under this section shall be 
offered first for such lease to the person who owned such land 
immediately before its acquisition by the United States.

(Pub. L. 90-542, Sec. 14A, as added Pub. L. 95-625, title VII, Sec. 764, 
Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3534.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1279 of this title.
