43 U.S.C. § 49 — Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico

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This law extends existing federal survey laws to Puerto Rico. It lets the United States Geological Survey do topographic and geological surveys there. It also lets the Survey investigate Puerto Rico's mineral and water resources.

Other federal laws already let the United States Geological Survey make topographic maps, conduct geological surveys, and investigate mineral and water resources in parts of the United States. This law takes those same powers and extends them to Puerto Rico. That means the Geological Survey can do the same mapping, surveying, and investigating work in Puerto Rico that it does elsewhere in the country.

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The provisions of law authorizing the making of topographic and geological surveys and conducting investigations relating to mineral and water resources by the United States Geological Survey in various portions of the United States be, and the same are, extended to authorize such surveys and investigations in Puerto Rico.

Source credit: (June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)

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1935Enacted · Act of June 17, 1935, ch. 268 · 49 Stat. 386

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