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[CITE: 40USC319c]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 319c. Definitions for easement provisions

    As used in sections 319 to 319c of this title--
    (a) The term ``State'' means the States of the Union, the District 
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of the 
United States.
    (b) The term ``executive agency'' means any executive department or 
independent establishment in the executive branch of the Government, 
including any wholly owned Government corporation.
    (c) The term ``person'' includes any corporation, partnership, firm, 
association, trust, estate, or other entity.
    (d) The term ``real property of the United States'' excludes the 
public lands (including minerals, vegetative, and other resources) in 
the United States, including lands reserved or dedicated for national 
forest purposes, lands administered or supervised by the Secretary of 
the Interior in accordance with sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of title 16, as 
amended and supplemented, Indian-owned trust and restricted lands, and 
lands acquired by the United States primarily for fish and wildlife 
conservation purposes and administered by the Secretary of the Interior, 
lands withdrawn from the public domain primarily under the jurisdiction 
of the Secretary of the Interior, and lands acquired for national forest 
purposes.

(Pub. L. 87-852, Sec. 4, 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        Section repealed by Pub.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 of this title.
