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[CITE: 43USC1302]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                       CHAPTER 29--SUBMERGED LANDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1302. Resources seaward of Continental Shelf

    Nothing in this subchapter or subchapter II of this chapter shall be 
deemed to affect in any wise the rights of the United States to the 
natural resources of that portion of the subsoil and seabed of the 
Continental Shelf lying seaward and outside of the area of lands beneath 
navigable waters, as defined in section 1301 of this title, all of which 
natural resources appertain to the United States, and the jurisdiction 
and control of which by the United States is confirmed.

(May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, Sec. 9, 67 Stat. 32.)
