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[CITE: 16USC525]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 525. Rights-of-way for wagon roads or railroads

    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.

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 427, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 1233.)

                                 Repeals

        Section repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 
    21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, 
    insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, 
    under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest 
    System.

                          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    As originally enacted, this section contained following the word 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 Provision

    Repeal by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 
Stat. 2793, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way, not 
to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., 
existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see note set out under section 1701 of Title 
43, Public Lands.
