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Title 43 - Public Lands
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contains | Sections 1 to 3208 |
| Date | 2021 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2022 |
| Positive Law | No |
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Chapter 1 - Bureau of Land Management
(Section 1 - 25b)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632
- Sec. 2 - Duties concerning public lands
- Sec. 3 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 636
- Sec. 3a - Omitted
- Secs. 4, 5 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 641
- Sec. 6 - Duties of employees to certify, record, etc., patents
- Sec. 7 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 641
- Sec. 8 - Omitted
- Sec. 9 - Repealed. June 17, 1948, ch. 496, §2(b), 62 Stat. 476
- Sec. 10 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 645
- Sec. 11 - Restriction on officers, clerks, and employees
- Sec. 12 - Seal, books, and records
- Sec. 13 - Original papers on file as evidence
- Sec. 14 - Returns relative to lands
- Sec. 15 - Issuance and signing of patents by Secretary of the Interior; delegation of authority; notice
- Sec. 16 - Engrossing and recording patents
- Sec. 17 - Plats of land surveyed
- Sec. 18 - Copies of papers filed
- Secs. 19 to 21 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Sec. 22 - Repealed. July 30, 1947, ch. 354, §2, 61 Stat. 522
- Sec. 23 - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-649, title II, §202(b), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 507
- Sec. 24 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 646, 647
- Secs. 25 to 25b - Repealed. Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, §1(25), 65 Stat. 639
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Chapter 2 - United States Geological Survey
(Section 31 - 50e)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 31 - Director of United States Geological Survey
- Sec. 31a - Findings and purpose
- Sec. 31b - Definitions
- Sec. 31c - Geologic mapping program
- Sec. 31d - Advisory committee
- Sec. 31e - Geologic mapping program 5-year plan
- Sec. 31f - National geologic map database
- Sec. 31g - Biennial report
- Sec. 31h - Authorization of appropriations
- Sec. 31i - Report on resource research activities
- Sec. 31j - Biological research activity of Survey; review and report by National Academy of Sciences
- Sec. 31k - National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System
- Sec. 31l - Earth Mapping Resources Initiative
- Sec. 32 - Acting Director
- Sec. 33 - Repealed. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §53, 70A Stat. 641
- Sec. 34 - Scientific employees
- Sec. 35 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-304, §9(a)(2), Sept. 26, 1961, 75 Stat. 664
- Sec. 36 - Purchase of books
- Sec. 36a - Acquisition of scientific or technical books, maps, etc., for library
- Sec. 36b - Acquisition of lands or interests therein for use in gaging streams or underground water resources
- Sec. 36c - Acceptance of contributions from public and private sources; cooperation with other agencies in prosecution of projects
- Sec. 36d - Cooperative agreements
- Sec. 37 - Omitted
- Sec. 38 - Topographic surveys; marking elevations
- Secs. 39, 40 - Omitted
- Sec. 41 - Publications and reports; preparation and sale
- Sec. 42 - Distribution of maps and atlases, etc.
- Sec. 42a - Use of receipts from sale of maps for map printing and distribution
- Sec. 43 - Copies to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates
- Sec. 44 - Sale of transfers or copies of data
- Sec. 45 - Production and sale of copies of photographs and records; disposition of receipts
- Sec. 46 - Omitted
- Sec. 47 - Repealed. Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, §1(11), 60 Stat. 867
- Sec. 48 - Omitted
- Sec. 49 - Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico
- Sec. 50 - Survey's share of cost of topographic mapping or water resources investigations carried on with States
- Sec. 50-1 - Funds for mappings and investigations considered intragovernmental funds
- Sec. 50a - Working capital fund for United States Geological Survey
- Sec. 50b - Recording of obligations against accounts receivable and crediting of amounts received; work involving cooperation with State, Territory, etc.
- Sec. 50c - Payment of costs incidental to utilization of services of volunteers
- Sec. 50d - Services of students or recent graduates
- Sec. 50e - USGS energy and minerals research facility
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Chapter 3 - Surveys
(Section 51 - 63)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 51 - Omitted
- Sec. 52 - Surveying duties
- Sec. 53 - Powers devolved on Secretary of the Interior on turning over of papers to States
- Sec. 54 - Completion of surveys; delivery to States
- Sec. 55 - Field notes delivered to States; access to
- Sec. 56 - Conditions of delivery to States
- Sec. 57 - Authenticated copies or extracts from records as evidence
- Sec. 58 - Transcripts from records of Louisiana
- Sec. 59 - Official papers in office of surveyor general in California; copies
- Sec. 60 - Stationery for mineral surveys
- Secs. 61 to 63 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
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Chapter 4 - District Land Offices
(Section 70 - 107)
- Table of Contents
- Secs. 70 to 73 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 638, 645, 646
- Sec. 74 - Omitted
- Sec. 75 - Administration of oaths
- Secs. 75a to 79b - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 645, 646, 652
- Sec. 79c - Payment of fees, commissions, etc.; deposit in Treasury
- Sec. 79d - Alaska land claimant liable for fees, commissions or purchase money; deposit in Treasury
- Secs. 80, 80a - Repealed. Apr. 24, 1944, ch. 177, §4, 58 Stat. 215
- Sec. 81 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 645, 646
- Sec. 82 - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-649, title II, §202(b), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 507
- Sec. 83 - Transcripts of records as evidence
- Sec. 84 - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-649, title II, §202(b), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 507
- Sec. 85 - Omitted
- Sec. 86 - Accounting for fees for notices of cancellation of entries
- Secs. 87, 88 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 634, 645, 646
- Sec. 89 - Monthly returns of district land offices
- Sec. 90 - Omitted
- Sec. 91 - Deposit in Treasury of unearned fees and unofficial moneys
- Sec. 92 - Lists furnished with deposits
- Sec. 93 - Deposit of moneys deposited by unknown parties
- Sec. 94 - Reimbursement of sums disbursed as special disbursing agents
- Secs. 95 to 98a - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-649, title II, §204(b), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 507
- Sec. 99 - Repayment of moneys deposited and covered into Treasury
- Sec. 100 - Disqualification
- Sec. 101 - Report of disqualification; designation of officer to act
- Sec. 102 - Attendance of witnesses
- Sec. 103 - Witnesses' fees
- Sec. 104 - Disobedience to subpoena
- Sec. 105 - Depositions of witnesses residing outside county
- Sec. 106 - Continuing taking of depositions in behalf of opposite party
- Sec. 107 - Penalty for false information
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Chapter 5 - Land Districts
(Section 121 - 130)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 121 - Discontinuance of land offices by President
- Sec. 122 - Discontinuance of land offices by Secretary of the Interior
- Sec. 123 - Continuance of land offices when required by public convenience
- Sec. 123a - Continuation of existing land districts and offices in Alaska; change of district boundaries, or discontinuance of districts; designation and location of land offices
- Sec. 124 - Consolidation of land offices
- Sec. 125 - Annexation of discontinued district to adjacent district
- Sec. 126 - Change of location of land offices
- Sec. 127 - Change of boundaries of land districts
- Sec. 128 - Division or change of boundaries; continuance of business of original district
- Sec. 129 - Office rent and clerk hire for consolidated land offices
- Sec. 130 - Entry of public lands in States where no land offices exist
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Chapter 6 - Withdrawal From Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry
(Section 141 - 158)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 141 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
- Sec. 142 - Rights of occupants or claimants of oil- or gas-bearing lands; exceptions to withdrawals
- Sec. 143 - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-533, §1(14), June 29, 1960, 74 Stat. 248
- Sec. 144 - Entries on land withdrawn as valuable for oil or gas validated
- Sec. 145 - Sale of lands withdrawn
- Sec. 146 - Patents to purchasers of lands withdrawn
- Sec. 147 - Disposition of proceeds of sale of withdrawn lands
- Sec. 148 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
- Sec. 149 - Exchange of private lands included in Indian reservation for other lands
- Sec. 150 - Withdrawals of land for Indian reservations prohibited
- Sec. 151 - Opening of lands restored to entry after withdrawals
- Sec. 152 - Restoration of lands previously withdrawn
- Sec. 153 - Reservation of lands in North Dakota
- Sec. 154 - Vacation of withdrawals under reclamation law; lands valuable for minerals; reservation of rights, ways, and easements; rules and regulations
- Sec. 155 - Withdrawal, reservation, or restriction of public lands for defense purposes; "public lands" defined; exception
- Sec. 156 - Approval by Congress necessary for withdrawal, reservation, or restriction of over 5,000 acres for any Department of Defense project or facility
- Sec. 157 - Application for withdrawal, reservation, or restriction; specifications
- Sec. 158 - Mineral resources on withdrawn lands; disposition and exploration
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Chapter 7 - Homesteads
(Section 161 - 302)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 161 - 180)
- Subchapter II - Right of Particular Persons to Make Entry (Section 181 - 191)
- Subchapter III - Lands Subject to Entry (Section 201 - 210)
- Subchapter IV - Limitation as to Amount and Additional and Enlarged Entries (Section 211 - 224)
- Subchapter V - Leaves of Absence and Excuses for Nonresidence or Noncultivation (Section 231 - 243a)
- Subchapter VI - Final Proof Generally (Section 251 - 256b)
- Subchapter VII - Payments and Refunds (Section 261 - 263)
- Subchapter VIII - Alaska Homesteads (Section 270 - 270-17)
- Subchapter IX - Soldiers' and Sailors' Homestead (Section 271 - 284)
- Subchapter X - Stock-Raising Homestead (Section 291 - 302)
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Chapter 8A - Grazing Lands
(Section 315 - 316o)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Generally (Section 315 - 315r)
- Subchapter II - Alaska (Section 316 - 316o)
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Chapter 9 - Desert-Land Entries
(Section 321 - 339)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 321 - Entry right generally; extent of right to appropriate waters
- Sec. 322 - Desert lands defined; question how determined
- Sec. 323 - Application to certain States
- Sec. 324 - Assignment of entries
- Sec. 325 - Resident citizenship of State as qualification for entry
- Sec. 326 - Unsurveyed lands not subject to entry; preferential right of entry after survey
- Sec. 327 - Filing irrigation plan; association of entrymen
- Sec. 328 - Expenditures and cultivation requirements
- Sec. 329 - Issue of patent on final proof; citizenship requirement as to patentee; limit as to amount of holding
- Sec. 330 - Desert-land entry in addition to homestead entry
- Sec. 331 - Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.
- Sec. 332 - Omitted
- Sec. 333 - Extension of time for completion of irrigation works
- Sec. 334 - Further extension of time for final proofs
- Sec. 335 - Further extension in cases not covered by sections 333 and 334 of this title
- Sec. 336 - Further extension in addition to that authorized by sections 333 to 335 of this title
- Secs. 336a, 336b - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §702, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2787
- Sec. 336c - Omitted
- Sec. 336d - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §702, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2787
- Sec. 337 - Entry, after expenditures, perfected as homestead entry
- Sec. 338 - Election to perfect entry; final proof
- Sec. 339 - Perfection of title to entry; supplementary provisions to sections 335, 337, and 338
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Chapter 11A - Board on Geographic Names
(Section 364 - 364f)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 364 - Uniformity in geographic nomenclature and orthography; exercise of functions of Secretary of the Interior
- Sec. 364a - Board on Geographic Names; establishment and membership; appointment and term of office
- Sec. 364b - Formulation of principles, policies and procedures; action by Secretary; recommendations of Board
- Sec. 364c - Studies, investigations, and records; staff assistance; advisory committees
- Sec. 364d - Promulgation of decisions; furnishing information
- Sec. 364e - Standardization of geographic names; abolition of United States Board on Geographical Names in Department of the Interior; transfer of duties
- Sec. 364f - Application to naming of offices or establishments
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Chapter 12 - Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
(Section 371 - 616yyyy)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 371 - 390h-39)
- Subchapter I-A - Reclamation Reform (Section 390aa - 390zz-1)
- Subchapter II - Reclamation Fund Generally (Section 391 - 404)
- Subchapter II-A - Reclamation Water Settlements Fund (Section 407 - 407)
- Subchapter III - Institution and Construction of Projects (Section 411 - 422)
- Subchapter IV - Construction of Small Projects (Section 422a - 422l)
- Subchapter V - Administration of Existing Projects (Section 423 - 425b)
- Subchapter VI - Water Right Applications and Land Entries (Section 431 - 449)
- Subchapter VII - Exchange and Amendment of Farm Units (Section 451 - 451k)
- Subchapter VIII - Taxation (Section 455 - 455c)
- Subchapter IX - Construction Charges (Section 461 - 482)
- Subchapter X - Payment of Construction Charges (Section 485 - 485k)
- Subchapter XI - Maintenance and Operation of Works Generally (Section 491 - 505a-2)
- Subchapter XI-A - Reclamation Safety of Dams (Section 506 - 509b)
- Subchapter XI-B - Aging Infrastructure (Section 510 - 510d)
- Subchapter XII - Contracts With State Irrigation Districts for Payment of Charges (Section 511 - 513)
- Subchapter XIII - Sale or Lease of Surplus Waters, Water Power, Storage Capacity, and Water Transportation Facilities (Section 521 - 526)
- Subchapter XIV - Patents and Final Water-Right Certificates (Section 541 - 547)
- Subchapter XV - Town Sites, Parks, Playgrounds, and School Sites (Section 561 - 573)
- Subchapter XVI - Refunds to War Veterans (Section 581 - 586)
- Subchapter XVII - Legislation Applicable to Particular Projects Generally (Section 591 - 600e)
- Subchapter XVIII - Cibolo Project, Texas (Section 600f - 600f-4)
- Subchapter XIX - Nueces River Project, Texas (Section 600g - 600g-4)
- Subchapter XX - Klamath Project, Oregon-California (Section 601 - 612)
- Subchapter XXI - Gila Project, Arizona (Section 613 - 613e)
- Subchapter XXII - Washoe Project, Nevada-California (Section 614 - 614d)
- Subchapter XXIII - Washita River Basin Project, Oklahoma (Section 615 - 615e)
- Subchapter XXIV - Crooked River Project, Oregon (Section 615f - 615j-1)
- Subchapter XXV - Little Wood River Project, Idaho (Section 615k - 615n)
- Subchapter XXVI - San Angelo Project, Texas (Section 615o - 615r)
- Subchapter XXVII - Spokane Valley Project, Washington and Idaho (Section 615s - 615u)
- Subchapter XXVIII - Dallas Project, Oregon (Section 615v - 615x)
- Subchapter XXIX - Norman Project, Oklahoma (Section 615aa - 615hh)
- Subchapter XXX - Navajo Irrigation Project, New Mexico; San Juan-Chama Project, Colorado-New Mexico (Section 615ii - 615zz)
- Subchapter XXXI - Closed Basin Division; San Luis Valley Project, Colorado (Section 615aaa - 615iii)
- Subchapter XXXII - Brantley Project, Pecos River Basin, New Mexico (Section 615jjj - 615ooo)
- Subchapter XXXIII - Salmon Falls Division, Upper Snake River Project, Idaho (Section 615ppp - 615www)
- Subchapter XXXIV - O'Neill Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska (Section 615xxx - 615cccc)
- Subchapter XXXV - North Loup Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska (Section 615dddd - 615jjjj)
- Subchapter XXXVI - Polecat Bench Area, Shoshone Extensions Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Wyoming (Section 615kkkk - 615kkkk-6)
- Subchapter XXXVII - Pollock-Herreid Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, South Dakota (Section 615llll - 615llll-6)
- Subchapter XXXVIII - Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado (Section 616 - 616f)
- Subchapter XXXIX - Mann Creek Project, Idaho (Section 616g - 616j)
- Subchapter XL - Arbuckle Project, Oklahoma (Section 616k - 616s)
- Subchapter XLI - Baker Project, Oregon (Section 616t - 616w)
- Subchapter XLII - Dixie Project, Utah (Section 616aa - 616hh)
- Subchapter XLIII - Savery-Pot Hook Project, Colorado-Wyoming; Bostwick Park and Fruitland Mesa Projects, Colorado (Section 616ii - 616mm)
- Subchapter XLIV - Lower Teton Division of Teton Basin Project, Idaho (Section 616nn - 616rr)
- Subchapter XLV - Whitestone Coulee Unit, Chief Joseph Dam Project, Washington (Section 616ss - 616vv-5)
- Subchapter XLVI - McKay Dam and Reservoir, Umatilla Project, Oregon (Section 616ww - 616ww-5)
- Subchapter XLVII - Auburn-Folsom South Unit; San Felipe Division: Central Valley Project, California (Section 616aaa - 616fff-7)
- Subchapter XLVIII - Southern Nevada Project, Nevada (Section 616ggg - 616mmm)
- Subchapter XLIX - Tualatin Project, Oregon (Section 616nnn - 616sss)
- Subchapter L - Missouri River Basin Project, South Dakota (Section 616ttt - 616yyy)
- Subchapter LI - Mountain Park Project, Oklahoma (Section 616aaaa - 616ffff-2)
- Subchapter LII - Palmetto Bend Project, Texas (Section 616gggg - 616llll)
- Subchapter LIII - Merlin Division; Rogue River Basin Project, Oregon (Section 616mmmm - 616ssss)
- Subchapter LIV - Touchet Division; Walla Walla Project, Oregon-Washington (Section 616tttt - 616yyyy)
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Chapter 12A - Boulder Canyon Project
(Section 617 - 619b)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Boulder Canyon Project Act (Section 617 - 617v)
- Subchapter II - Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act (Section 618 - 618p)
- Subchapter III - Hoover Dam Contracts and Facilities (Section 619 - 619b)
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Chapter 12B - Colorado River Storage Project
(Section 620 - 620o)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 620 - Upper Colorado River Basin; purpose of development of water resources; initial units; construction of Wayne N. Aspinall unit contingent upon certification; participating projects; Rainbow Bridge National Monument
- Sec. 620a - Priority to planning reports of certain additional participating projects; reports to States; San Juan-Chama project; Juniper project
- Sec. 620a-1 - Construction of participating projects to be concurrent with Central Arizona Project
- Sec. 620a-2 - Establishment of nonexcess irrigable acreage for participating projects
- Sec. 620b - Congressional intent; additional undesignated projects not precluded; construction not authorized within national park or monument
- Sec. 620c - Laws governing; irrigation repayment contracts; time for making contract; contracts for municipal water; payment by Indian lands; restricted delivery of water for excess commodity; apportionments of use
- Sec. 620c-1 - Laws governing priority of appropriation
- Sec. 620d - Upper Colorado River Basin Fund
- Sec. 620d-1 - Reimbursement of Fund from Colorado River Development Fund; operation of Hoover Dam
- Sec. 620e - Cost allocations; Indian lands; report to Congress
- Sec. 620f - Powerplant operations
- Sec. 620g - Recreational and fish and wildlife facilities
- Sec. 620h - Saving provisions
- Sec. 620i - Expenditures; units excepted from soil survey and land classification requirements
- Sec. 620j - Court decree; effectivity and approval
- Sec. 620k - Authorization of appropriations
- Sec. 620l - Net power revenues
- Sec. 620m - Compliance with law required in operation of facilities; enforcement of provisions
- Sec. 620n - Water quality study and reports
- Sec. 620n-1 - Top water bank
- Sec. 620o - Definitions
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Chapter 13 - Federal Lands Included in State Irrigation Districts
(Section 621 - 630)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 621 - Subjection of lands in State irrigation district to State laws generally
- Sec. 622 - Cost of construction and maintenance of irrigation project as charge on land
- Sec. 623 - Map of district and plan of irrigation project; approval by Secretary
- Sec. 624 - Entry of approval on land records
- Sec. 625 - Release of unentered land from lien on noncompletion of irrigation project
- Sec. 626 - Enforcement of lien against entered but unpatented land
- Sec. 627 - Sale of unpatented and unentered land prohibited; suspension of entry
- Sec. 628 - Patents to entered but unpatented land
- Sec. 629 - Delivery of notices required by State law; right to hearing, appeal, etc.
- Sec. 630 - Disposition by Government of proceeds of land sold
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Chapter 14 - Grants of Desert Lands to States for Reclamation
(Section 641 - 648)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 641 - Grant of desert land to States authorized
- Sec. 641a - Issuance of quitclaim deeds; patents for segregated lands
- Sec. 641b - Filing of application for quitclaim deeds
- Sec. 641c - Requirements of application for quitclaim deed
- Sec. 641d - Effective date of quitclaim; administration of lands relinquished by States
- Sec. 642 - Liens for expenses of reclamation
- Sec. 643 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
- Sec. 644 - Preference right to entryman under State laws
- Sec. 645 - Additional arid lands available to Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming for reclamation
- Sec. 646 - Grant extended to New Mexico and Arizona
- Sec. 647 - Grant extended to desert lands within part of former Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado
- Sec. 648 - Omitted
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Chapter 15 - Appropriation of Waters; Reservoir Sites
(Section 661 - 666)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 661 - Appropriation of waters on public lands; rights of way for canals and ditches
- Sec. 662 - Reservation of reservoir sites generally
- Sec. 663 - Restriction of sites to inclusion of necessary lands
- Sec. 664 - Rights of way over reservoir sites generally
- Sec. 665 - Rights of way over reservoir sites for wagon road, railroad, or other highway
- Sec. 666 - Suits for adjudication of water rights
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Chapter 16 - Sale and Disposal of Public Lands
(Section 671 - 700)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 671 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 672 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Secs. 673 to 676 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 677 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Secs. 678 to 682 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Secs. 682a to 682e - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §702, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2787
- Secs. 683 to 687 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Secs. 687a to 687a-3 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 687a-4 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
- Secs. 687a-5 to 687b-4 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 687b-5 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 687c - Alaskan land leases for fur farming; citizenship; acreage limitation; period; terms and conditions; laws applicable to mineral resources; reservations
- Sec. 687c-1 - Execution of provisions of section 687c; authority of Secretary of the Interior
- Secs. 688 to 700 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
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Chapter 17 - Reservation and Sale of Town Sites on Public Lands
(Section 711 - 738)
- Table of Contents
- Secs. 711 to 715 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 716 - Repealed. Aug. 24, 1954, ch. 904, §2, 68 Stat. 792
- Secs. 717 to 728 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 729 - Repealed. June 14, 1926, ch. 578, §5, as added June 4, 1954, ch. 263, 68 Stat. 175
- Secs. 730 to 736 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 737 - Unrestricted deeds for townsite lands held by Alaska natives
- Sec. 738 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
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Chapter 18 - Survey of Public Lands
(Section 751 - 775)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 751 - Rules of survey
- Sec. 751a - Survey system extended to Alaska
- Sec. 751b - Surveys in Nome and Fairbanks districts
- Sec. 752 - Boundaries and contents of public lands; how ascertained
- Sec. 753 - Lines of division of half quarter sections; how run
- Secs. 754 to 756 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Sec. 757 - Cost of survey of private land claims to be reported and paid
- Sec. 758 - Delivery of patent contingent on refund of cost of survey
- Sec. 759 - Survey for and by settlers in township
- Sec. 760 - Deposit for expenses deemed an appropriation
- Sec. 761 - Repayment of excess of deposits to cover cost of surveys of mineral lands
- Sec. 762 - Deposits made by settlers for surveys to go in part payment of lands
- Sec. 763 - Deposits in Louisiana applicable to resurveys
- Secs. 764, 765 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Sec. 766 - Geological surveys, extension of public surveys, expenses of subdividing
- Sec. 767 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Secs. 768, 769 - Repealed. Apr. 29, 1950, ch. 134, §4, 64 Stat. 93
- Sec. 770 - Rectangular mode of survey; departure from
- Sec. 771 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Sec. 772 - Resurveys or retracements to mark boundaries of undisposed lands
- Sec. 773 - Resurveys or retracements of township lines, etc.
- Sec. 774 - Protection of surveyor by marshal
- Sec. 775 - Omitted
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Chapter 19 - Bounty Lands
(Section 781 - 844)
- Sec. 781 - Repealed. June 29, 1936, ch. 867, title III, §303, 49 Stat. 2033
- Secs. 782, 783 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-558, §1, July 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 246
- Sec. 784 - Repealed. Pub. L. 85-56, title XXII, §2202(1), June 17, 1957, 71 Stat. 162
- Sec. 785 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-558, §1, July 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 246
- Sec. 786 - Repealed. Pub. L. 85-56, title XXII, §2202(1), June 17, 1957, 71 Stat. 162
- Sec. 787 - Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 645, §21, 62 Stat. 862
- Secs. 791 to 808 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-558, §1, July 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 246
- Secs. 821 to 835 - Repealed. Pub. L. 87-558, §1, July 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 246
- Sec. 841 - Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 645, §21, 62 Stat. 862
- Secs. 842 to 844 - Repealed. June 17, 1957, Pub. L. 85-56, title XXII, §2202(1), 71 Stat. 162
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Chapter 20 - Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes
(Section 851 - 873)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 851 - Deficiencies in grants to State by reason of settlements, etc., on designated sections generally
- Sec. 852 - Selections to supply deficiencies of school lands
- Sec. 852a - Applications for unsurveyed lands; regulations; acreage requirements
- Sec. 852b - Survey of lands prior to transfer; time for survey; availability of funds; lands suitable for transfer
- Sec. 853 - Selections in Utah to supply deficiencies of school lands
- Sec. 854 - Selections in New Mexico to supply deficiencies of school lands
- Sec. 855 - Omitted
- Sec. 856 - Selection of school lands on ceded Indian reservations
- Sec. 857 - Grant to new States
- Sec. 858 - Grants to counties for seats of justice
- Sec. 859 - Fee simple to pass in all grants
- Sec. 860 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
- Sec. 861 - Preference right of selection granted certain Western States; bona fide settlers
- Sec. 862 - Omitted
- Sec. 863 - Survey of lands granted to certain Western States
- Sec. 864 - Survey of land grants to Florida
- Sec. 865 - Confirmation of certain lands selected by California
- Sec. 866 - Exchange of cut over land in Montana
- Sec. 867 - Omitted
- Sec. 868 - Representation of Indian claimants in suits to determine right to school lands
- Sec. 869 - Disposal of lands for public or recreational purposes
- Sec. 869-1 - Sale or lease to State or nonprofit organization; reservation of mineral deposits; termination of lease for nonuse
- Sec. 869-2 - Conditions of transfer by grantee; solid waste disposal
- Sec. 869-3 - Authority for transfers; applicability of section 869-2 to prior patents; termination of restrictions
- Sec. 869-4 - Disposition of moneys received from or on account of revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands or reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands
- Sec. 869a - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-66, §1, June 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 110
- Sec. 870 - Grants of land in aid of common or public schools; extension to those mineral in character; effect of leases
- Sec. 871 - Certain grants and laws unaffected
- Sec. 871a - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §705(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
- Sec. 872 - Conveyances to United States in connection with applications for amendment of patented entries or for exchange of land, etc.; withdrawal or rejection of applications; reconveyances
- Sec. 873 - Lands granted for erecting public buildings; purpose of grant
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Chapter 21 - Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads
(Section 881 - 914)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 881 - Cost of survey of grants to railroads; payment
- Sec. 882 - Surveyed lands taxable notwithstanding lien; provisos
- Sec. 883 - Collection of costs of surveying, etc.; reimbursement of purchaser
- Sec. 884 - Right of forfeiture of railroad grants not affected
- Sec. 885 - Union Pacific Railroad lands
- Sec. 886 - Survey of lands within limits of railroad grants
- Sec. 887 - Deposits for surveys of lands granted to railroads
- Sec. 888 - Selection by railroads of lands in lieu of lands entered subsequent to accrual of rights; title of settlers
- Sec. 889 - Rights of entrymen whose entries had not been admitted to record
- Sec. 890 - Homestead entries on railroad lands prior to withdrawal or after restoration to market confirmed
- Sec. 891 - Abandoned railroad lands; reentry
- Sec. 892 - Entries after expiration of grant
- Sec. 893 - Rights of permissive settlers on railroad lands restored to public domain
- Sec. 894 - Adjustment of land grants to railroads
- Sec. 895 - Cancellation of patents erroneously issued; reconveyance
- Sec. 896 - Erroneous cancellation of bona fide entries corrected
- Sec. 897 - Patents to purchasers from railroads; purchase money
- Sec. 898 - Rights of purchasers from railroads of coterminous lands not within grants
- Sec. 899 - Limitation of quantity to be conveyed
- Sec. 900 - Suits to cancel patents to lands erroneously issued under railroad or wagon-road grants
- Sec. 901 - Claims of bona fide purchasers; establishment of rights
- Sec. 902 - Cancellation; investigation before suit
- Sec. 903 - Relief of settlers on lands granted in aid of wagon roads
- Sec. 904 - Forfeiture of unearned grants; restoration to public domain
- Sec. 905 - Homestead entries on forfeited lands
- Sec. 906 - Purchase by bona fide purchasers from grantees; removal of crops and improvements
- Sec. 907 - Rights of original grantees to forfeited lands
- Sec. 908 - Deposits by railroad companies for costs of surveying and conveying unsurveyed lands granted
- Sec. 909 - Forfeiture of grant on failure to make deposit
- Sec. 910 - Right to extend public surveys over lands granted, and other rights of United States, not affected
- Sec. 911 - Regulations
- Sec. 912 - Disposition of abandoned or forfeited railroad grants
- Sec. 913 - Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of rights of way to State, county, or municipality
- Sec. 914 - Omitted
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Chapter 22 - Rights-of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands
(Section 931 - 975g)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 931 - Navigable rivers as public highways
- Sec. 931a - Authority of Attorney General to grant easements and rights-of-way to States, etc.
- Sec. 931b - Repealed. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §53, 70A Stat. 641
- Sec. 931c - Permits, leases, or easements; authorization to grant; payment; limitation
- Sec. 931d - Additional authority of department or agency head
- Sec. 932 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793
- Sec. 933 - Repealed. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, §53, 70A Stat. 641
- Sec. 934 - Right of way through public lands granted to railroads
- Sec. 935 - Several roads through canyons
- Sec. 936 - Condemnation of private land
- Sec. 937 - Filing profile of road; forfeiture of rights
- Sec. 938 - Lands excepted
- Sec. 939 - Alteration, amendment, or repeal
- Sec. 940 - Forfeiture of rights where railroad not constructed in five years after location
- Sec. 941 - Railroad stations on rights of way granted
- Sec. 942 - Omitted
- Sec. 942-1 - Rights of way in Alaska; railroad rights of way; reservations; water transportation connections; State title to submerged lands; Federal repossession as trustee; "navigable waters" defined; posting schedules of rates; changes in rates
- Sec. 942-2 - Rights of several roads through canyons
- Sec. 942-3 - Condemnation of land
- Sec. 942-4 - Filing preliminary survey, map and profile of road
- Sec. 942-5 - Filing map and profile of road section; forfeiture of rights; reversion of grant
- Sec. 942-6 - Rights of way for Alaskan wagon roads, wire rope, aerial, or other tramways; reservations; filing preliminary survey and map of location; alteration, amendment, repeal, or grant of equal rights; forfeiture of rights; reversion of grant; liens
- Sec. 942-7 - Military park, Indian or other reservation
- Sec. 942-8 - Reservation of right of alteration, amendment, or repeal; assignment of right of way
- Sec. 942-9 - Map location of road
- Sec. 943 - Right of way for railroads; reserved lands in Minnesota
- Sec. 944 - Right of way in Oklahoma and Arizona
- Sec. 945 - Reservation in patents of right of way for ditches or canals
- Sec. 945a - Compensation for rights-of-way for certain reclamation projects
- Sec. 945b - Jurisdiction; procedure
- Sec. 946 - Right of way to canal ditch companies and irrigation or drainage districts for irrigation or drainage purposes and operation and maintenance of reservoirs, canals, and laterals
- Sec. 947 - Map; damages to settlers
- Sec. 948 - Application to existing and future canals
- Sec. 949 - Use for canal or ditch only
- Sec. 950 - Right of way to canal and ditch companies for irrigation purposes; additional grants
- Sec. 951 - Right of way for water transportation, domestic purposes, or development of power
- Sec. 952 - Reservoir sites for water for livestock
- Sec. 953 - Declaratory statement as to reservoirs
- Sec. 954 - Survey; map of reservoirs
- Sec. 955 - Amendment, alteration, or repeal
- Sec. 956 - Right of way for tramroads, canals, or reservoirs
- Sec. 957 - Right of way to electric power companies
- Sec. 958 - Rights of way for wagon roads or railroads
- Sec. 959 - Rights of way for electrical plants, etc.
- Sec. 961 - 1 Rights-of-way for power and communications facilities
- Sec. 962 - Right of way in Colorado and Wyoming to pipeline companies
- Sec. 963 - Applications for Colorado and Wyoming pipeline right of way
- Sec. 964 - Limit of time for completion of Colorado and Wyoming pipelines; forfeiture
- Sec. 965 - Restriction on use of Colorado and Wyoming pipeline right of way
- Sec. 966 - Right of way in Arkansas to pipe-line companies
- Sec. 967 - Applications for Arkansas pipeline right of way
- Sec. 968 - Restriction on use of Arkansas pipeline right of way
- Sec. 969 - Forfeiture of Arkansas pipeline right of way for nonuser, etc.
- Sec. 970 - Forfeiture of Arkansas pipeline right of way for violation of antitrust law
- Sec. 971 - Bathhouses, hotels, etc., adjacent to mineral, medicinal, etc., springs on public lands
- Sec. 971a - Alaskan lands within highway, telephone, and pipeline withdrawals; disposal; amendment of land description of claim or entry on adjoining lands
- Sec. 971b - Sale of restored Alaskan lands; preference rights; consent of Federal agency
- Sec. 971c - Utilization or occupancy of Alaskan easements; consent of agency
- Sec. 971d - Effect on valid existing Alaskan rights
- Sec. 971e - Definition of restored Alaskan lands
- Secs. 975, 975a - Repealed. Pub. L. 97-468, title VI, §615(a)(1), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2577
- Sec. 975b - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
- Secs. 975c to 975g - Repealed. Pub. L. 97-468, title VI, §615(a)(1), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2577
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Chapter 23 - Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands
(Section 981 - 994)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 981 - Indemnity to States on sale of lands
- Sec. 982 - Grant to States to aid in construction of levees and drains
- Sec. 983 - Lists and plats of lands, for governors of States
- Sec. 984 - Legal subdivisions mostly wet and unfit for cultivation
- Sec. 985 - Omitted
- Sec. 986 - Selection of lands confirmed
- Sec. 987 - Lands to be certified to State within one year
- Sec. 988 - Act extended to Minnesota and Oregon
- Sec. 989 - Homestead entries by purchasers from Missouri of lands declared not to be swamp lands
- Sec. 990 - Grant to Missouri
- Sec. 991 - Title of purchasers of unconfirmed lands in Arkansas confirmed
- Sec. 992 - Sale of erroneously designated water-covered areas in Arkansas
- Sec. 993 - Sale of lands in Louisiana; preference rights; application for purchase; appraisal; payment for land
- Sec. 994 - Sale of lands in Wisconsin
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Chapter 25 - Unlawful Inclosures or Occupancy; Obstructing Settlement or Transit
(Section 1061 - 1066)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1061 - Inclosure of or assertion of right to public lands without title
- Sec. 1062 - Suits for violations of law
- Sec. 1063 - Obstruction of settlement on or transit over public lands
- Sec. 1064 - Violations of chapter; punishment
- Sec. 1065 - Summary removal of inclosures
- Sec. 1066 - Permission of Secretary to sue
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Chapter 26 - Abandoned Military Reservations
(Section 1071 - 1081)
- Secs. 1071 to 1073 - Repealed. Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, §1(114), 65 Stat. 706
- Sec. 1074 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
- Sec. 1075 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §§702, 703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2787, 2789
- Secs. 1076 to 1081 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, §703(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789
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Chapter 27 - Public Lands in Oklahoma
(Section 1091 - 1134)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 1091 - 1102g)
- Subchapter II - Town Sites (Section 1111 - 1119)
- Subchapter III - Lands in Greer County (Section 1131 - 1134)
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Chapter 28 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Public Lands
(Section 1151 - 1243)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Patents for Private Land Claims (Section 1151 - 1156)
- Subchapter II - Disposition of Suspended Entries and Claims; Invalid and Defective Claims and Patents Therefor (Section 1161 - 1167)
- Subchapter III - Sales of Isolated Tracts (Section 1171 - 1177)
- Subchapter IV - Timber Culture (Section 1181 - 1181)
- Subchapter V - Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands (Section 1181a - 1181j)
- Subchapter VI - Disposal of Materials on Public Lands (Section 1185 - 1188)
- Subchapter VII - Evidences of Title (Section 1191 - 1193)
- Subchapter VIII - Indian Lands (Section 1195 - 1200e)
- Subchapter IX - Enforcement of Provisions (Section 1201 - 1201)
- Subchapter X - Oaths in Certain Land Matters (Section 1211 - 1212)
- Subchapter XI - Wisconsin River and Lake Land Titles (Section 1221 - 1223)
- Subchapter XII - Moving Expenses Resulting From Acquisition of Lands by Secretary of the Interior (Section 1231 - 1234)
- Subchapter XIII - State Control of Noxious Plants on Government Lands (Section 1241 - 1243)
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Chapter 29 - Submerged Lands
(Section 1301 - 1356b)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 1301 - 1303)
- Subchapter II - Lands Beneath Navigable Waters Within State Boundaries (Section 1311 - 1315)
- Subchapter III - Outer Continental Shelf Lands (Section 1331 - 1356b)
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Chapter 30 - Administration of Public Lands
(Section 1361 - 1443)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 1361 - 1364)
- Subchapter II - Service Charges and Excess Payments (Section 1371 - 1374)
- Subchapter III - Deposits and Forfeitures (Section 1381 - 1383)
- Subchapter IV - Public Land Law Review Commission (Section 1391 - 1400)
- Subchapter V - Classification of Lands to Provide for Disposal or Interim Management (Section 1411 - 1418)
- Subchapter VI - Sale of Public Land (Section 1421 - 1427)
- Subchapter VII - Sale of Public Lands Subject to Unintentional Trespass (Section 1431 - 1435)
- Subchapter VIII - Public Airports (Section 1441 - 1443)
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Chapter 31 - Department of the Interior
(Section 1451 - 1477)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1451 - Establishment
- Sec. 1452 - Deputy Secretary of the Interior; appointment
- Sec. 1453 - Assistant Secretaries of the Interior
- Sec. 1453a - Additional Assistant Secretary of the Interior; appointment; duties; compensation
- Sec. 1454 - Duties of Assistant Secretary and assistant to Secretary
- Sec. 1455 - Solicitor; appointment; duties
- Sec. 1456 - Chief clerk
- Sec. 1456a - Repealed. Pub. L. 95-164, title III, §306(b), Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1322
- Sec. 1457 - Duties of Secretary
- Sec. 1457a - Authorization of appropriations for particular programs
- Sec. 1457b - Use of cooperative agreements
- Sec. 1457c - Power of Secretary or designated officer
- Sec. 1458 - Secretary to exercise certain powers over Territories
- Sec. 1459 - Expenditures of department
- Sec. 1460 - Copies of records, documents, etc.; charges; disposition of receipts
- Sec. 1461 - Rules and regulations governing inspection and copying
- Sec. 1462 - Attestation of copies by official seal
- Sec. 1463 - Disposition of receipts
- Sec. 1464 - Agents or attorneys representing claimants before department
- Sec. 1465 - Annual reports of department and its bureaus
- Sec. 1466 - Administration of oaths, affirmations, etc., by employees of Division of Investigations; force and effect
- Sec. 1467 - Working capital fund; establishment; uses; reimbursement
- Sec. 1467a - Working capital fund; credit card refunds or rebates
- Sec. 1468 - Working capital fund; availability for uniforms or allowances therefor
- Sec. 1469 - Employment and compensation of personnel to perform work occasioned by emergencies
- Sec. 1470 - Appropriations; availability for certain administrative expenses
- Sec. 1471 - Appropriations; availability for payment of property damages
- Sec. 1471a - Availability of appropriations for emergency repair or replacement of damaged or destroyed facilities and equipment
- Sec. 1471b - Availability of appropriations for suppression and emergency prevention of forest and range fires
- Sec. 1471c - Availability of appropriations for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities
- Sec. 1471c-1 - Availability of appropriations for operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities
- Sec. 1471d - Availability of appropriations for transportation, reprint, telephone, and library membership expenses
- Sec. 1471e - Reimbursement of employee license costs and certification fees
- Sec. 1471f - Availability of appropriations for incremental funding of research work orders for cooperative agreements
- Sec. 1471g - Availability of appropriations to support Memorial Day and Fourth of July ceremonies and activities in National Capital Region
- Sec. 1471h - Availability of appropriations for uniforms or allowances
- Sec. 1471i - Availability of appropriations for services or rentals
- Sec. 1472 - Bureau of Reclamation working capital fund
- Sec. 1473 - Acceptance of contributions from private and public sources by Mineral Management Service
- Sec. 1473a - Acceptance of contributions by Secretary; cooperation with prosecution of projects
- Sec. 1473b - Awards for contributions to Department of the Interior programs
- Sec. 1473c - Payment of costs incidental to services contributed by volunteers
- Sec. 1473d - Insurance costs covering vehicles, aircraft, and boats operated by Department of the Interior in Canada and Mexico
- Sec. 1473e - Acceptance of donations and bequests for Natural Resources Library
- Sec. 1474 - Availability of receipts from administrative fees for program operations in Mining Law Administration
- Sec. 1474a - Emergency Department of the Interior Firefighting Fund; amounts considered "emergency requirements"
- Sec. 1474b - Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund; availability of assessments
- Sec. 1474b-1 - Transfer of funds from Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund
- Sec. 1474c - North American Wetlands Conservation Fund; availability of fines or forfeitures
- Sec. 1474d - Environmental Improvement and Restoration Fund
- Sec. 1474e - Sums received by the Bureau of Land Management for the sale of seeds
- Sec. 1474f - Sums received by the Bureau of Land Management from vendors under enterprise information technology-procurements
- Sec. 1475 - Bureau of Reclamation acceptance of services of volunteers
- Sec. 1475a - Participation of non-Federal entities in contract negotiations and source selection proceedings
- Sec. 1475b - Volunteer authority
- Sec. 1476 - Elimination of oaths for written statements; discretion of Secretary of the Interior
- Sec. 1476a - Unsworn written statements subject to penalties of presenting false claims
- Sec. 1477 - Snow water supply forecasting
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Chapter 32 - Colorado River Basin Project
(Section 1501 - 1556)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Objectives (Section 1501 - 1501)
- Subchapter II - Investigations and Planning (Section 1511 - 1514)
- Subchapter III - Authorized Units; Protection of Existing Uses (Section 1521 - 1528)
- Subchapter IV - Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund (Section 1541 - 1544)
- Subchapter V - General Provisions (Section 1551 - 1556)
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Chapter 32A - Colorado River Basin Salinity Control
(Section 1571 - 1599)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Programs Downstream From Imperial Dam (Section 1571 - 1580)
- Subchapter II - Measures Upstream From Imperial Dam (Section 1591 - 1599)
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Chapter 32B - Colorado River Floodway
(Section 1600 - 1600l)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1600 - Findings and purposes
- Sec. 1600a - Definitions
- Sec. 1600b - Colorado River Floodway Task Force
- Sec. 1600c - Colorado River Floodway
- Sec. 1600d - Limitations on Federal expenditures affecting Floodway
- Sec. 1600e - Exceptions
- Sec. 1600f - Certification of compliance
- Sec. 1600g - Priority of laws
- Sec. 1600h - Separability
- Sec. 1600i - Reports to Congress
- Sec. 1600j - Federal leases
- Sec. 1600k - Notices and existing laws
- Sec. 1600l - Authorization of appropriations
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Chapter 33 - Alaska Native Claims Settlement
(Section 1601 - 1629h)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1601 - Congressional findings and declaration of policy
- Sec. 1602 - Definitions
- Sec. 1603 - Declaration of settlement
- Sec. 1604 - Enrollment
- Sec. 1605 - Alaska Native Fund
- Sec. 1606 - Regional Corporations
- Sec. 1607 - Village Corporations
- Sec. 1608 - Revenue sharing
- Sec. 1609 - Limitation of actions
- Sec. 1610 - Withdrawal of public lands
- Sec. 1611 - Native land selections
- Sec. 1612 - Surveys
- Sec. 1613 - Conveyance of lands
- Sec. 1613a - ANCSA amendment
- Sec. 1614 - Timber sale contracts; modification; timber from contingency area
- Sec. 1615 - Withdrawal and selection of public lands; funds in lieu of acreage
- Sec. 1616 - Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska
- Sec. 1617 - Revocation of Indian allotment authority in Alaska
- Sec. 1618 - Revocation of reserved rights; excepted reserve; acquisition of title to surface and subsurface estates in reserve; election of Village Corporations; restoration of land to Elim Native Corporation
- Sec. 1619 - Attorney and consultant fees
- Sec. 1620 - Taxation
- Sec. 1621 - Miscellaneous provisions
- Sec. 1622 - Annual reports to Congress until 1984; submission in 1985 of report of status of Natives, summary of actions taken, and recommendations
- Sec. 1623 - Authorization of appropriations
- Sec. 1624 - Regulations; issuance; publication in Federal Register
- Sec. 1625 - Securities laws exemption
- Sec. 1626 - Relation to other programs
- Sec. 1627 - Merger of Native corporations
- Sec. 1628 - Assignments by Regional Corporations of rights to receive payments from Fund
- Sec. 1629 - Cape Krusenstern National Monument land exchange between United States and NANA Regional Corporation, Inc.
- Sec. 1629a - Relinquishment by NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., of lands compact and contiguous to public lands in Cape Krusenstern National Monument
- Sec. 1629b - Procedures for considering amendments and resolutions
- Sec. 1629c - Duration of alienability restrictions
- Sec. 1629d - Dissenters rights
- Sec. 1629e - Settlement Trust option
- Sec. 1629f - Claims arising from contamination of transferred lands
- Sec. 1629g - Open season for certain Alaska Native veterans for allotments
- Sec. 1629g-1 - Alaska Native Vietnam era veterans land allotment
- Sec. 1629h - Kake Tribal Corporation land transfer
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Chapter 33A - Implementation of Alaska Native Claims Settlement and Alaska Statehood
(Section 1631 - 1642)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1631 - Ownership of submerged lands
- Sec. 1632 - Statute of limitations on decisions of Secretary and reconveyance of land by Village Corporation
- Sec. 1633 - Administrative provisions
- Sec. 1634 - Alaska Native allotments
- Sec. 1635 - State selections and conveyances
- Sec. 1636 - Alaska land bank
- Sec. 1637 - Use of protraction diagrams
- Sec. 1638 - National Environmental Policy Act
- Sec. 1639 - Construction with Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
- Sec. 1640 - Relinquishment of selections partly within conservation units
- Sec. 1641 - Conveyances to Village Corporations
- Sec. 1642 - Land conveyances
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Chapter 35 - Federal Land Policy and Management
(Section 1701 - 1787)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 1701 - 1703)
- Subchapter II - Land Use Planning and Land Acquisition and Disposition (Section 1711 - 1723)
- Subchapter III - Administration (Section 1731 - 1748d)
- Subchapter IV - Range Management (Section 1751 - 1753)
- Subchapter V - Rights-of-Way (Section 1761 - 1772)
- Subchapter VI - Designated Management Areas (Section 1781 - 1787)
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Chapter 36 - Outer Continental Shelf Resource Management
(Section 1801 - 1866)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1801 - Congressional findings
- Sec. 1802 - Congressional declaration of purposes
- Subchapter I - Offshore Oil Spill Pollution Fund (Section 1811 - 1824)
- Subchapter II - Fishermen's Contingency Fund (Section 1841 - 1847)
- Subchapter III - Miscellaneous Provisions (Section 1861 - 1866)
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Chapter 37 - Public Rangelands Improvement
(Section 1901 - 1908)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1901 - Congressional findings and declaration of policy
- Sec. 1902 - Definitions
- Sec. 1903 - Rangelands inventory and management; public availability
- Sec. 1904 - Range improvement funding
- Sec. 1905 - Grazing fees; economic value of use of land; fair market value components; annual percentage change limitation
- Sec. 1906 - Authority for cooperative agreements and payments effective as provided in appropriations
- Sec. 1907 - National Grasslands; exemptions
- Sec. 1908 - Experimental stewardship program
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Chapter 38 - Crude Oil Transportation Systems
(Section 2001 - 2012)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 2001 - Findings
- Sec. 2002 - Statement of purposes
- Sec. 2003 - Definitions
- Sec. 2004 - Applications for approval of proposed crude oil transportation systems
- Sec. 2005 - Review schedule
- Sec. 2006 - Environmental impact statements
- Sec. 2007 - Decision of President
- Sec. 2008 - Procedures for waiver of Federal law
- Sec. 2009 - Expedited procedures for issuance of permits: enforcement of rights-of-way
- Sec. 2010 - Negotiations with Government of Canada
- Sec. 2011 - Judicial review
- Sec. 2012 - Authorization for appropriation
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Chapter 40 - Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief
(Section 2201 - 2247)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 2201 - Definitions
- Subchapter I - Drought Program (Section 2211 - 2215)
- Subchapter II - Drought Contingency Planning (Section 2221 - 2226)
- Subchapter III - General and Miscellaneous Provisions (Section 2241 - 2247)
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Chapter 42 - Rural Water Supply
(Section 2401 - 2434)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Reclamation Rural Water Supply (Section 2401 - 2409)
- Subchapter II - Twenty-First Century Water Works (Section 2421 - 2434)
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Chapter 43 - Suspended Entries and Claims; Patents
(Section 2501 - 2507)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 2501 - "Suspended entries of public lands" and "suspended preemption land claims"
- Sec. 2502 - Adjudications as to suspended entries; approval
- Sec. 2503 - Patents surrendered and new ones issued
- Sec. 2504 - Extent of foregoing provisions
- Sec. 2505 - Suspension of entries for correction of clerical errors; patents
- Sec. 2506 - Limitations of suits to annul patents
- Sec. 2507 - Entries and final proofs, made out of proper district, confirmed
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Chapter 44 - Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands
(Section 2601 - 2634)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Administration (Section 2601 - 2607)
- Subchapter II - Disposition of Funds (Section 2621 - 2624)
- Subchapter III - Administrative Jurisdiction (Section 2631 - 2634)
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Chapter 46 - Geospatial Data
(Section 2801 - 2811)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 2801 - Definitions
- Sec. 2802 - Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Sec. 2803 - National Geospatial Advisory Committee
- Sec. 2804 - National spatial data infrastructure
- Sec. 2805 - National Geospatial Data Asset data themes
- Sec. 2806 - Geospatial data standards
- Sec. 2807 - Geoplatform
- Sec. 2808 - Covered agency responsibilities
- Sec. 2809 - Limitation on use of Federal funds
- Sec. 2810 - Savings provision
- Sec. 2811 - Private sector
- + Chapter 47 - Reclamation Title Transfer (Section 2901 - 2907)
- + Chapter 48 - Renewable Energy Production on Federal Land (Section 3001 - 3005)
- + Chapter 49 - National Landslide Preparedness (Section 3101 - 3104)
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Chapter 50 - Western Water Infrastructure
(Section 3201 - 3208)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 3201 - Authorizations of appropriations
- Sec. 3202 - Water storage, groundwater storage, and conveyance projects
- Sec. 3203 - Small water storage and groundwater storage projects
- Sec. 3204 - Critical maintenance and repair
- Sec. 3205 - Competitive grant program for large-scale water recycling and reuse program
- Sec. 3206 - Drought contingency plan funding requirements
- Sec. 3207 - Multi-benefit projects to improve watershed health
- Sec. 3208 - Federal assistance for groundwater recharge, aquifer storage, and water source substitution projects
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