---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 444a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "444a"
heading: "Ascertainment of value of lands offered for exchange; evidence of title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/444a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §444a. Ascertainment of value of lands offered for exchange; evidence of title


The value of all patented lands within said monument offered for exchange, and the value of the lands of the United States to be given in exchange therefor, shall be ascertained in such manner as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may direct; and the [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of such privately owned lands within said monument shall, before any exchange is effective, furnish the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior evidence satisfactory to him of title to the patented lands offered in exchange; and lands conveyed to the United States under [section 444 of this title](/usc/16/444.md) shall be and remain a part of the Petrified Forest National Monument.


## Source credit

(May 14, 1930, ch. 271, § 2, 46 Stat. 278.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Disestablishment of Petrified Forest National Monument

Disestablishment of Petrified Forest National Monument upon establishment of Petrified Forest National Park, see section 119 of this title.