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[CITE: 16USC460uu-43]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER CVI--EL MALPAIS NATIONAL MONUMENT AND CONSERVATION AREA
 
                       Part E--General Provisions
 
Sec. 460uu-43. State exchanges of lands and interests

    (a) Upon the request of the State of New Mexico (hereinafter 
referred to as the ``State'') and pursuant to the provisions of this 
section, the Secretary shall exchange public lands or interests in lands 
elsewhere in the State of New Mexico, of approximately equal value and 
selected by the State, acting through its Commissioner of Public Lands, 
for any lands or interests therein owned by the State (hereinafter 
referred to as ``State lands'') located within the boundaries of the 
monument or the conservation area which the State wishes to exchange 
with the United States.
    (b) Within six months after December 31, 1987, the Secretary shall 
notify the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands what State lands are 
within the monument or the conservation area. The notice shall contain a 
listing of all public lands or interest therein within the boundaries of 
the State of New Mexico which have not been withdrawn from entry and 
which the Secretary, pursuant to the provisions of sections 1712 and 
1716 of title 43, has identified as appropriate for transfer to the 
State in exchange for State lands. Such listing shall be updated at 
least annually. If the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands gives 
notice to the Secretary of the State's desire to obtain public lands so 
listed, the Secretary shall notify the Commissioner in writing as to 
whether the Department of the Interior considers the State lands within 
the monument or conservation area to be of approximately equal value to 
the listed lands or interests in lands the Commissioner has indicated 
the State desires to obtain. It is the sense of the Congress that the 
exchange of lands and interests therein with the State pursuant to this 
section should be completed within two years after December 31, 1987.

(Pub. L. 100-225, title V, Sec. 503, Dec. 31, 1987, 101 Stat. 1544.)
