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[CITE: 16USC577f]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 577f. Exchange of lands

    Upon finding and determination by the Secretary of Agriculture that 
the public purposes and objectives explicit and implicit in sections 577 
to 577b of this title, more effectively can be accomplished by 
exchanging lands of the United States situated within the boundaries 
described in said sections for other lands in State, county, or private 
ownership situated within the said boundaries which are more suitable 
for public ownership, management, and use, for the purposes contemplated 
by said sections, such lands of the United States shall be subject to 
exchange under the provisions of sections 485 and 486 of this title, or 
the provisions of section 516 of this title.

(June 22, 1948, ch. 593, Sec. 4, 62 Stat. 570.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 577d-1, 577h, 1133 of this 
title.
