# Conveyance of Small Tracts
> **Forest Service** · Final rule. · Published 2020-09-29 · Effective 2020-10-29 · 85 FR 60913
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-21258
- **Category:** forest-service
- **Sub-agency:** Forest Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 60913
- **CFR reference:** 36 CFR 254
- **Publication date:** 2020-09-29
- **Effective date:** 2020-10-29
## Abstract

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service is issuing this final rule to implement certain changes to the Small Tracts Act, which was enacted in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the 2018 Farm Bill. These statutory changes create two new categories of lands eligible for conveyance outside of the National Forest System under the Small Tracts Act: parcels 40 acres or less that are physically isolated, inaccessible, or have lost National Forest System character; and parcels of ten acres or less that are not eligible for conveyance under previous eligibility conditions and are encroached on by a permanent habitable improvement for which there is no evidence that the encroachment was intentional or negligent.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/29/2020-21258/conveyance-of-small-tracts)
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