---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 45a–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "45a–2"
heading: "Exchange of certain lands for lands conveyed to United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/45a-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §45a–2. Exchange of certain lands for lands conveyed to United States


In exchange for the conveyance to the United States of tract A, as provided in [section 45a–1 of this title](/usc/16/45a–1.md), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized, in his discretion, to patent to the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of tract A, subject to such terms and conditions as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may deem necessary, certain lands of approximately equal value described as follows:

Tract D. A portion of the southeast quarter of [section 33](/usc/16/33.md), township 16 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, comprising approximately two and fifty one-hundredths acres.

In exchange for the conveyance to the United States of tracts B and C, as provided in [section 45a–1 of this title](/usc/16/45a–1.md), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to patent, in a similar manner, to the [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of tracts B and C certain lands of approximately equal value described as follows:

Tract E. The southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of [section 4](/usc/16/4.md), which shall be subject to [section 818 of this title](/usc/16/818.md); the south half of the northeast quarter of [section 5](/usc/16/5.md); and approximately sixty-eight acres of the north half of the southeast quarter of [section 5](/usc/16/5.md), which shall not include the surveyed two-hundred-foot strip as shown on [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) “D” of exhibit “K”, entitled “Detailed [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) of Kaweah [Project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) of the Southern California Edison Company, Ltd.”, and filed in the office of the Federal Power [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) on December 12, 1923; all of said lands in tract E being situated in township 17 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, comprising approximately one hundred and eighty-eight acres.


## Source credit

(Dec. 21, 1943, ch. 372, § 2, 57 Stat. 606.)