43 U.S.C. § 2607 — Protection of Oregon and California Railroad grant lands

(a) Definitions. (1) “O & C land” means Oregon and California Railroad grant land that revested in the United States under the June 9, 1916 Act and is managed by the Interior Secretary through the Bureau of Land Management under the August 28, 1937 Act. (2) “CBWR land” means Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land reconveyed to the United States under the February 26, 1919 Act and managed the same way. (3) “Geographic area” means the Oregon area within the Medford, Roseburg, Eugene, Salem, and Coos Bay Districts and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District, as constituted January 1, 1998. (4) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior. (b) In land sales, purchases, and exchanges in that area, the Secretary must ensure that on October 30, 2008, and at the end of every later 10-year period, the acreage of O & C and CBWR land there is at least the acreage there on October 30, 1998. (c) Despite anything else in this section, it does not apply to an exchange authorized by section 1028 of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 or implementing legislation or rule if consistent with the February 19, 1998 memorandum of understanding between the Umpqua Land Exchange Project and the Association of Oregon and California Land Grant Counties.