---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 160e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "160e"
heading: "Payment of value differential by Secretary to owner of commercial timberlands exchanging lands for State lands outside of park; determination of value; prerequisites"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/160e"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XIX — Voyageurs National Park"
---

# §160e. Payment of value differential by Secretary to owner of commercial timberlands exchanging lands for State lands outside of park; determination of value; prerequisites


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to pay a differential in value, as hereinafter set forth, to any [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of commercial timberlands within the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) with whom the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Minnesota has negotiated, for the purpose of conveyance to the United States, an exchange of lands for [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) lands outside the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3). Payment hereunder may be made when an exchange is based upon valuations for timber purposes only, and shall be the difference between the value of such lands for timber purposes, as agreeable to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), and any [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4), and the higher value, if any, of such lands for recreational purposes not attributable to establishment or authorization of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3): Provided, That any payment shall be made only at such time as fee title of lands so acquired within the boundaries is conveyed to the United States.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–661, § 204, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1972.)