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roneously or fraudulently omitted from the original 

 surveys (hereinafter referred to as "omitted 

 lands"). Any such conveyance shall not be made 

 without a survey: Provided, That the prospective 

 recipient may donate money or services to the Sec- 

 retary for the surveying necessary prior to con- 

 veyance if the Secretary accepts such money or 

 sevices, such services are conducted pursuant to 

 criteria established by the Director of the Bureau 

 of Land Management, and such survey is approved 

 by the Secretary prior to the conveyance. 



(2) The Secretary is authorized to convey to the 

 occupant of any omitted lands which, after survey, 

 are found to have been occuplied and developed for 

 a five-year period prior to January 1. 1975. if the 

 Secretary determines that such conveyance is in 

 the public interest and will serve objectives which 

 outweigh all public objectives and values which 

 would be served by retaining such lands in Federal 

 ownership. Conveyance under this subparagraph 

 shall be made at not less than the fair market value 

 of the land, as determined by the Secretary, and 

 upon payment in addition of administrative costs, 

 including the cost of making the survey, the cost of 

 appraisal, and the cost of making the conveyance. 



(c) '1) No conveyance shall be made pursuant to 

 this section until the relevant State government, 

 local government, and areawide planning agency 

 designated pursuant to section 204 of the Demons- 

 tration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act 

 of 1966 (80 Stat. 1255, 1262) and/or title IV of the 

 Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 (82 

 Stat. 1098, 1103-4) have notified the Secretary as 

 to the consistency of such conveyance with appli- 

 cable State and local government land use plans 

 and programs. 



(2) The provisions of section 210 of this Act shall 

 be applicable to all conveyance under this section. 



(d) The final sentence of section 1(c) of the Re- 

 creation and Public Purposes Act shall not be ap- 

 plicable to conveyances under this section. 



(e) No conveyance pursuant to this section shall 

 be used as the basis for determining the baseline 

 between Federal and State ownership, the boun- 

 dary of any State for purposes of determining the 

 extent of a State's submerged lands or the line of 

 demarcation of Federal jurisdiction, or any similar 

 or related purpose. 



(f ) The provisions of this section shall not apply 

 to any lands within the National Forest System, 

 defined in the Act of August 17, 1974 (88 Stat. 476; 

 16 U.S.C. 1601 ) , the National Park System, the Na- 

 tional Wildlife Refuge System, and the National 

 Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 



(g) Nothing in this section shall supersede the 

 provisions of the Act of December 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 

 1069, 43 U.S.C. 1068) , as amended, and the Act of 

 May 31, 1962 (76 Stat. 89), or any other Act au- 

 thorizing the sale of specific omitted lands. 



RECREATION AND PUBLIC PURPOSES ACT 



Sec 212. The Recreation and Public Purposes Act 

 of 1926 (44 Stat. 741, as amended; 43 U.S.C. 869-4 1 , 



as amended, is further amended as follows: 



(a) The second sentence of subsection (ai of the 

 first section of that Act (43 U.S.C. 869(a)) is 

 amended to read as follows: "Before the land may 

 disposed of under this Act it must be shown to the 

 satisfaction of the Secretary that the land is to be 

 used for an established or definitely proposed proj- 

 ect, that the land involved is not of national sig- 

 nificance nor more than is reasonably necessary for 

 the proposed use, and that for proposals of over 

 640 acres comprehensive land use plans and zoning 

 regulations applicable to the area in which the 

 public lands to be disposed of are located have been 

 adopted by the appropriate State or local authority. 

 The Secretary shall provide an opportunity for 

 participation by affected citizens in disposals under _ 

 this Act, including public hearings or meetings 

 where he deems it appropriate to provide public 

 comments, and shall hold at least one public meet- 

 ing on any proposed disposal of more than six hun- 

 dred forty acres under this Act." 



(b) Subsection (b) li) of the first section of that 

 Act (43 U.S.C. 869 (b>) is amended to read as 

 follows: 



"(b) Conveyances made in any one calendar year 

 shall be limited as follows: 



" (i) For recreational purposes : 



"(A) To any State or the State park agency 

 or any other agency having jurisdiction over 

 the State park system of such State designated 

 by the Governor of that State as its sole rep- 

 resentative for acceptance of lands imder 

 this provision, hereinafter referred to as the 

 State, or to any political subdivision of such 

 State, six thousand four hundred acres, and 

 such additional acreage as may be needed for 

 small roadside parks and rest sites of not more 

 than ten acres each. 



"(B) To any nonprofit corporation or non- 

 profit association, six hundred and forty acres. 



"(C) No more than twenty-five thousand 

 six hundred acres may be conveyed for recrea- 

 tional purposes under this Act in any one 

 State per calendar year. Should any State or 

 political subdivision, however, fail to secure, in 

 any one year, six thousand four hundred acres, 

 not counting lands for small roadside parks 

 and rest sites, conveyances may be made there- 

 after if pursuant to an application on file with 

 the Secretary of the Interior on or before the 

 last day of said year and to the extent that 

 the conveyance would not have exceeded the 

 limitations of said year.". 



(c) Section 2(a) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 869-1) is 

 amended by inserting "or recreational purpwses" 

 immediately after "historic-monument purposes". 



(d) Section 2(b) of that Act (43 U.S.C. 869-1) 

 is amended by adding ", except that leases of such 

 lands for recreational purposes shall be made with- 

 out monetary consideration" after the phase "rea- 

 sonable annual rental". 



NATIONAL FOREST TOWNSITES 



Sec. 213. The Act of July 31, 1958 (72 Stat. 438, 



