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[CITE: 43USC1441]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
               CHAPTER 30--ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC LANDS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER VIII--PUBLIC AIRPORTS
 
Sec. 1441. Lease of contiguous public lands for public airports; 
        authority of Secretary of the Interior
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and 
under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lease for use as a public 
airport any contiguous public lands, unreserved and unappropriated, not 
to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in area, subject to 
valid rights in such lands under the public-land laws.

(May 24, 1928, ch. 728, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 728; Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 354, 55 
Stat. 621.)

                       References in Text

    The public-land laws, referred to in text, are classified generally 
to this title.

                          Codification

    Section was previously classified to section 211 of former Title 49, 
Transportation.


                               Amendments

    1941--Act Aug. 16, 1941, increased area of land authorized for lease 
as airport from six hundred and forty acres to two thousand five hundred 
and sixty acres.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1442 of this title.
