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[CITE: 40USC319a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 319a. Termination of easements; notice to grantees, 
        successors or assignees; effective date
        
    The instrument granting any such easement may provide for 
termination of the easement in whole or in part if there has been--
        (a) a failure to comply with any term or condition of the grant, 
    or
        (b) a nonuse of the easement for a consecutive two-year period 
    for the purpose for which granted, or
        (c) an abandonment of the easement.

If such a provision is included, it shall require that written notice of 
such termination shall be given to the grantee, or its successors or 
assigns. The termination shall be effective as of the date of such 
notice.

(Pub. L. 87-852, Sec. 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1129.)

                                 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        Section repealed by Pub.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.


                            Savings Provision

    Repeal by Pub. L. 94-579 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 section 701 of Pub. 
L. 94-579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public 
Lands.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 319, 319b, 319c of this 
title.
