43 U.S.C. § 315l — Lands under national-forest administration

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The President can move certain watershed lands into national forests, or move grazing-valuable forest lands into Interior Department control. Existing legal rights on that land stay protected. Each transferred type of land then follows whichever set of rules fits its new administration.

The President may, by proclamation, reserve unclaimed public land that lies in a watershed feeding into an existing national forest and place it under national-forest administration, in any state where national forests can be created or expanded by executive order — as long as the President thinks it fits best with the forests already being managed there. The President may also do the reverse: place land inside a national forest that is mainly valuable for grazing under the Interior Department's administration instead, if the President thinks it fits best under this subchapter. Either kind of move cannot interfere with legal rights that people already acquired under public-land laws, as long as they keep those rights up properly. Land moved into national-forest administration then follows all the laws and regulations for national forests. Land moved into Interior Department administration then follows all the public-land laws and regulations that apply to grazing districts under this subchapter. Nothing in this section limits the President's separate power to reorganize executive departments under sections 124 through 132 of title 5.

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The President of the United States is authorized to reserve by proclamation and place under national-forest administration in any State where national forests may be created or enlarged by Executive order any unappropriated public lands lying within watersheds forming a part of the national forests which, in his opinion, can best be administered in connection with existing national-forest administration units, and to place under the Interior Department administration any lands within national forests, principally valuable for grazing, which, in his opinion, can best be administered under the provisions of this subchapter: Provided, That such reservations or transfers shall not interfere with legal rights acquired under any public-land laws so long as such rights are legally maintained. Lands placed under the national-forest administration under the authority of this subchapter shall be subject to all the laws and regulations relating to national forests, and lands placed under the Interior Department administration shall be subject to all public-land laws and regulations applicable to grazing districts created under authority of this subchapter. Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to limit the powers of the President (relating to reorganizations in the executive departments) granted by sections 124 to 132 of title 5.1

Source credit: (June 28, 1934, ch. 865, § 13, 48 Stat. 1274.)

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1934Enacted · Act of June 28, 1934, ch. 865 · 48 Stat. 1274

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