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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · S. 4949 (Engrossed in Senate) — To amend title 38, United States Code, to address green burial sections in national cemeteries, and for other purposes. · Sec. 5

Sec. 5. Transfer of Department of the Interior land for use as a national cemetery

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Section 2406 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— by striking As additional lands and inserting
(a); and In general .—As additional lands by adding at the end the following new subsection: Notwithstanding section 204(d) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1714(d) ), if the Secretary and the Secretary of the Interior agree to a transfer under subsection
(a)of any land for use by the Department as a national cemetery, the land shall be— withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws, the mineral leasing laws, and the geothermal leasing laws; subject to valid existing rights; transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and deemed to be property (as defined in section 102(9) of title 40) for as long as the land remains under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. .
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