Cooperative agreements and land trades and acquisitions

(a) Cooperative agreements The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall seek to enter into cooperative agreements with private, State, and corporate landowners and sovereign Indian Tribes the land of which is adjacent to public land in the biological connecting corridors designated under this title, if those agreements would benefit the ecological integrity and function of the designated corridors. (b) Land trades and acquisitions The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior may undertake land trades or acquisitions to carry out the purposes of this title if the Secretary concerned considers the action to be— (1) appropriate; and (2) in compliance with existing law (including regulations) applicable to land trades or acquisitions. (c) Report As part of the report required by section 501, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall describe the progress of cooperative agreements, acquisitions, and proposed land exchanges sought pursuant to this section.