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[CITE: 16USC444]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 444. Petrified Forest National Monument; elimination of 
        private holdings of land within boundaries; exchange of lands
        
    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, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 278.)


         Disestablishment of Petrified Forest National Monument

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 119, 444a of this title.
