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[CITE: 43USC1342]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                       CHAPTER 29--SUBMERGED LANDS
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS
 
Sec. 1342. Prior claims as unaffected

    Nothing herein contained shall affect such rights, if any, as may 
have been acquired under any law of the United States by any person in 
lands subject to this subchapter and such rights, if any, shall be 
governed by the law in effect at the time they may have been acquired: 
Provided, however, That nothing herein contained is intended or shall be 
construed as a finding, interpretation, or construction by the Congress 
that the law under which such rights may be claimed in fact applies to 
the lands subject to this subchapter or authorizes or compels the 
granting of such rights in such lands, and that the determination of the 
applicability or effect of such law shall be unaffected by anything 
herein contained.

(Aug. 7, 1953, ch. 345, Sec. 14, 67 Stat. 470.)
