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16 USC § 441m - Disposition of excess gunnery range lands and reservation lands; purchase; terms and conditions; life estates and use restrictions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s441m"
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title: "16 USC § 441m - Disposition of excess gunnery range lands and reservation lands; purchase; terms and conditions; life estates and use restrictions"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "441m"
section_name: "Disposition of excess gunnery range lands and reservation lands; purchase; terms and conditions; life estates and use restrictions"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "LXI"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 90–468, § 4, Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 664; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)"
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# § 441m. Disposition of excess gunnery range lands and reservation lands; purchase; terms and conditions; life estates and use restrictions

**(a)** **Gunnery range lands; reservation lands** *l*June 16, 193348 Stat. 200April 15, 1938

All Federal lands and interests in lands within the Badlands Air Force gunnery range that are outside the boundaries of the park, and that have been declared excess to the needs of the Department of the Air Force, and that are not purchased by former owners under section 441(b) of this title, and all lands that have been acquired by the United States under authority of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of  (), and subsequent relief Acts, situated within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, administrative jurisdiction over which has heretofore been transferred by the President from the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Interior by Executive Order Numbered 7868, dated , shall be subject to the following provisions of this section.

**(b)** **Purchases** August 8, 1968*l**l*

Any former Indian owner of land that is within the Badlands Air Force gunnery range and outside the boundaries of the park and that has not been declared excess to the needs of the Department of the Air Force on , may, within the period specified in section 441(b)(5) of this title, elect (i) to purchase an available tract of land described in subsection (a) of substantially the same value, or (ii) to purchase the tract formerly owned by him at such time as such tract is declared excess and transferred to the Secretary of the Interior as provided in section 441(a) of this title.

**(c)** **Life estates and use restrictions** section 441k of this title*l*

Any former Indian owner of a tract of land within the boundaries of the park that was acquired by the United States for the Badlands Air Force gunnery range, and that is transferred to the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to , may, within the period specified in section 441(b)(5) of this title, elect (i) to acquire from the Secretary of the Interior a life estate in such tract at no cost, subject to restrictions on use that may be prescribed in regulations applicable to the park, or (ii) to purchase an available tract of land described in subsection (a) of substantially the same value.

**(d)** **Purchase restrictions** *l*

Purchases under subsection (b) and clause (ii) of subsection (c) of this section shall be made on the terms provided in section 441(b) of this title.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 90–468, § 4, Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 664; Pub. L. 95–625, title VI, § 611, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3521.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The National Industrial Recovery Act of , referred to in subsec. (a), is , . Title II of the Act was classified principally to subchapter I (§ 401 et seq.) of chapter 8 of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and was terminated  by , . Provisions of title II of the Act which were classified to former Title 40 were repealed by , , . For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Executive Order Numbered 7868, dated , referred to in subsec. (a), was not classified to the Code.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Word “park” substituted for “monument” in subsecs. (a) to (c) pursuant to , which is classified to  and which redesignated Badlands National Monument as Badlands National Park.