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 107 STAT. 236 PUBLIC LAW 103-48—JULY 2, 1993 ing rights arising from factors other than those described in subsection (b)(1), any right, title, and interest in and to lands identified pursuant to paragraph (1) and not previously vested in the United States is hereby vested and confirmed in the United States. Public (3) In the same manner as the initial list was published and information. distributed pursuant to subsection (b)(2), the Secretary concerned shall publish and distribute an identification of all lands in which right, title, and interest is vested and confirmed in the United States by paragraph (2). (d) FINAL LISTS.— (1) As soon as possible after considering any requests made pursuant to subsection (b)(3) and the identification of lands pursuant to subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall each publish a final list, consisting of lands included on each Secretary's initial list not identified pursuant to subsection (c)(1). Unless a Secretary has published a final list on or before the date 24 months after the date of publication, pursuant to subsection (b)(2), of such Secretary's initial list, the initial list prepared by such Secretary shall be deemed on such date to be the final list required to be published by such Secretary, and thereafter no lands included on such initial list shall be excluded from operation of subsection (a) except lands located wholly or partially within a conservation system unit or any other area which Congress has designated for specific management. (2) If after publication of a final list a court makes a final decision that a parcel of land was arbitrarily and capriciously excluded from an initial list as provided by subsection (b), such parcel shall be deemed to have been included on a final list published pursuant to paragraph (1), unless such parcel is located wholly or partially inside a conservation system unit or any other area which Congress has designated for specific management, in which case such parcel shall be subject to the provisions of subsection (c)(2). (e) ISSUANCE OF INSTRUMENTS. —(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, no later than 6 months after the date on which the Secretary concerned publishes a final list of lands pursuant to subsection (d), the Secretary concerned shall issue documents of disclaimer of interest confirming the quitclaim made by subsection (a) of this section of all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands included on such final list, subject to valid existing rights arising from factors other than a relinquishment to the United States of the type described in subsection (b). Each such confirmatory document of disclaimer of interest shall operate to estop the United States from making any claim of right, title, or interest of the United States in and to the base lands described in the document of disclaimer of interest, shall be made in the name of the listed owner or entr3nnan, his heirs, devisees, successors, and assigns, and shall be in a form suitable for recordation and shall be filed and recorded by the United States with the recorder of deeds or other like official of the county or counties within which the lands covered by such confirmatory document of disclaimer of interest are located so that the title to such lands may be determined in accordance with applicable State law. (2) The United States shall not adjudicate and, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, does not consent to be sued in any suit instituted to adjudicate the ownership of, or to quiet

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