---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 241b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "241b"
heading: "Exchange of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/241b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXVI — Theodore Roosevelt National Park"
---

# §241b. Exchange of lands


For the purposes of acquiring non-[Federal lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=2) within the boundaries of said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) as established by this section and [section 241a of this title](/usc/16/241a.md), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to exchange federally owned lands within sections [1](/usc/16/1.md), [12](/usc/16/12.md), and [13](/usc/16/13.md), township 148 north, range 100 west, and sections [6](/usc/16/6.md), [7](/usc/16/7.md), and [18](/usc/16/18.md), township 148 north, range 99 west. Reserving, however, to the stockmen of the surrounding [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) a perpetual right-of-way through the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) for the trailing of livestock, to and from the railroad, along and adjacent to the Little Missouri River, being the same trail or route which has been used by the stockmen for that purpose since the beginning of the livestock industry in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A). Administrative jurisdiction over any of such lands that the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior finds are not required for exchange purposes as herein provided may be conveyed to other Federal agencies by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior without exchange of funds, or if such lands are not required by other Federal agencies they may be conveyed to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of North Dakota without reimbursement to the United States.


## Source credit

(June 12, 1948, ch. 455, § 2, 62 Stat. 384.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act Apr. 25, 1947, ch. 41, 61 Stat. 52, which comprises this subchapter.