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 PUBLIC LAW 103-48—JULY 2, 1993 107 STAT. 235 (b) PURPOSE. —The purpose of this Act is to resolve the status of the title to base lands affected by the past legislation cited in subsection (a). SEC. 2. roENTIFICATION AND QUITCLAIM OF FEDERAL INTEREST IN BASE LANDS. (a) QUITCLAIM.— Except as otherwise provided by this Act, and subject to valid existing rights, but notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States hereby quitclaims to the listed owner or entryman, his heirs, devisees, successors, and assigns, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the base lands described on a final list published pursuant to subsection (d)(1), effective on the date of publication of such list. (b) PREPARATION OF INITIAL LISTS.— (1) Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to lands under such Secretary's jurisdiction, and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to National Forest System lands, shall each prepare an initial list of all parcels of base lands that were relinquished to the United States pursuant to the Act of June 4, 1897 (as amended), and for which selection or other rights under that Act or supplemental legislation were not realized or exercised. (2) The initial lists prepared under paragraph (1) shall be based on information in the actual possession of the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture on the date of enactment of this Act, including information submitted to Congress pursuant to the directive contained in Senate Report No. 98 -578, issued for the Fiscal Year 1985 Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation, as revised and updated. The initial lists shall be published and distrib- PH^'lic uted for public review in accordance with procedures adopted by information. the Secretary concerned. (3) For a period of 180 days after publication of a list pursuant to paragraph (2), persons asserting that particular parcels omitted from such a list should have been included may request the Secretary concerned to add such parcels to the appropriate list. The Secretary concerned shall add to the list any such parcels which the Secretary determines meet the conditions specified in paragraph (1). (c) NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT LANDS. —(1) During preparation or revision of an initial list under subsection (b), the Secretary concerned shall identify those listed lands which are located wholly or partially within any conservation system unit and all other listed lands which Congress has designated for specific management or which the Secretary concerned decides, in the concerned Secretary's sole discretion, should be retained in order to meet public, resource protection, or administrative needs. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "conservation system unit" means any unit of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, National Trails System, or National Wilderness Preservation System, a national forest monument, or a national conservation area, a national recreation area, or any lands being studied for possible designation as part of such a system or unit. (2) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to any lands identified by the Secretary concerned pursuant to paragraph (1). The Secretary concerned shall not include any such lands on any list prepared pursuant to subsection (d). Subject to valid exist-

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