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[CITE: 16USC488]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 488. Establishment of exterior boundaries of national 
        forests
        
    On and after Mar. 3, 1899, all standard, meander, township, and 
section lines of the public-land surveys shall be established under the 
direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior or such 
officer as he may designate, whether the lands to be surveyed are within 
or without national forests, except that where the exterior boundaries 
of national forests are required to be coincident with standard, 
township, or section lines, such boundaries may, if not previously 
established in the ordinary course of the public-land surveys, be 
established and marked under the supervision of the Director of the 
United States Geological Survey whenever necessary to complete the 
survey of such exterior boundaries.

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 424, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 1097; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 
Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Codification

    ``National forests'' substituted in text for ``reservations'' and 
``public forest reservations'' on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 
2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter 
be known as national forests.

                         Change of Name

    ``Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate'' 
substituted in text for ``Commissioner of the General Land Office'' on 
authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
