Priv. L. 101-8, sec. 1
FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
SECTION 1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. (a) Findings.— The Congress finds and declares that— (1) certain landowners in Stone County, Arkansas, who own property adjacent to the Ozark National Forest have been adversely affected by certain erroneous surveys; (2) these landowners have occupied or improved their property in good faith and in reliance on erroneous surveys of their properties that they believed were accurate; and (3) the 1975 Bureau of Land Management dependent resurvey of the Ozark National Forest correctly established accurate boundaries between such forest and private lands. (b) Purpose.— It is the purpose of this Act to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey, without consideration, certain lands in Stone County, Arkansas, to persons claiming to have been deprived of title to such lands.