Pub. L. 102-393, tit. VI, sec. 636

Sec. 636. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture may enter into an agreement with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to provide a total of 30 acres of land on which the Beltsville Agricultural Research 106 STAT. 1779Center is located at Beltsville, Maryland, and permit the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to utilize said land to design and construct wetland mitigation projects to replace wetlands eliminated by authorized construction by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as required by the terms and conditions of any permit issued to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority by the United States Army, Corps of Engineers, pursuant to section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1344: Provided, That title to such land shall remain vested in the United States of America: Provided further, That the Secretary shall dedicate a perpetual conservation easement with respect to such land prohibiting any filling, flooding, excavation, clear cutting, construction, removal of vegetation, or alteration of trees in areas delineated as created wetlands, except when authorized under Federal and State law: Provided further, That such land may be used in a manner not inconsistent with the perpetual conservation easement to further research, extension, or teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences of the Department of Agriculture.