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[CITE: 43USC1314]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                       CHAPTER 29--SUBMERGED LANDS
 
  SUBCHAPTER II--LANDS BENEATH NAVIGABLE WATERS WITHIN STATE BOUNDARIES
 
Sec. 1314. Rights and powers retained by United States; purchase 
        of natural resources; condemnation of lands
        
    (a) The United States retains all its navigational servitude and 
rights in and powers of regulation and control of said lands and 
navigable waters for the constitutional purposes of commerce, 
navigation, national defense, and international affairs, all of which 
shall be paramount to, but shall not be deemed to include, proprietary 
rights of ownership, or the rights of management, administration, 
leasing, use, and development of the lands and natural resources which 
are specifically recognized, confirmed, established, and vested in and 
assigned to the respective States and others by section 1311 of this 
title.
    (b) In time of war or when necessary for national defense, and the 
Congress or the President shall so prescribe, the United States shall 
have the right of first refusal to purchase at the prevailing market 
price, all or any portion of the said natural resources, or to acquire 
and use any portion of said lands by proceeding in accordance with due 
process of law and paying just compensation therefor.

(May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, Sec. 6, 67 Stat. 32.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2105 of this title.
