United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 16. CONSERVATION |
Chapter 2. NATIONAL FORESTS |
SubChapter I. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION |
§ 525. Rights-of-way for wagon roads or railroads
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In the form provided by existing law the Secretary of the Interior may file and approve surveys and plats of any right of way for a wagon road, railroad, or other highway over and across any national forest when in his judgment the public interests will not be injuriously affected thereby.
Prospective Amendment
Section repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a),
Codification
As originally enacted, this section contained following the word “forest” the words “or reservoir site”. See sections 665 and 958 of Title 43, Public Lands, which represent the phase of the section here omitted.
“National forest” substituted in text for “forest reserve” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.
Savings
Repeal by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a),