---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 396e"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "396e"
heading: "Exchange of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/396e"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLII–A — Kaloko-Honoko̅hau National Historical Park"
---

# §396e. Exchange of lands


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized and shall seek to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) the lands described in [section 396d(a) of this title](/usc/16/396d.md?p=a) by first acquiring Federal surplus lands of equivalent value from the General Services Administration and then exchanging such surplus lands for the lands described in [section 396d(a) of this title](/usc/16/396d.md?p=a) with the land [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4). Exchanges shall be on the basis of equal value, and any party to the exchange may pay or accept cash in order to equalize the value of the property exchanged.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–514, title I, § 100, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2960.)