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[CITE: 16USC410hhh-6]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
     SUBCHAPTER LIX-FF--GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE
 
Sec. 410hhh-6. Acquisition of property and boundary adjustments


(a) Acquisition authority

    (1) Within the area depicted on the map as the ``Acquisition Area'' 
or the national monument, the Secretary may acquire lands and interests 
therein by purchase, donation, transfer from another Federal agency, or 
exchange: Provided, That lands or interests therein may only be acquired 
with the consent of the owner thereof.
    (2) Lands or interests therein owned by the State of Colorado, or a 
political subdivision thereof, may only be acquired by donation or 
exchange.

(b) Boundary adjustment

    As soon as practicable after the acquisition of any land or interest 
under this section, the Secretary shall modify the boundary of the unit 
to which the land is transferred pursuant to subsection (b) \1\ of this 
section to include any land or interest acquired.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``subsection (c)''.
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(c) Administration of acquired lands

                        (1) General authority

        Upon acquisition of lands under subsection (a) of this section, 
    the Secretary shall, as appropriate--
            (A) transfer administrative jurisdiction of the lands to the 
        National Park Service--
                (i) for addition to and management as part of the Great 
            Sand Dunes National Monument, or
                (ii) for addition to and management as part of the Great 
            Sand Dunes National Park (after designation of the Park) or 
            the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve; or

            (B) transfer administrative jurisdiction of the lands to the 
        United States Fish and Wildlife Service for addition to and 
        administration as part of the Baca National Wildlife Refuge.

                  (2) Forest service administration

        (A) Any lands acquired within the area depicted on the map as 
    being located within Zone B shall be transferred to the Secretary of 
    Agriculture and shall be added to and managed as part of the Rio 
    Grande National Forest.
        (B) For the purposes of section 460l-9 of this title, the 
    boundaries of the Rio Grande National Forest, as revised by the 
    transfer of land under paragraph (A), shall be considered to be the 
    boundaries of the national forest.

(Pub. L. 106-530, Sec. 8, Nov. 22, 2000, 114 Stat. 2532.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 410hhh-1 of this title.
