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[CITE: 43USC157]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
     CHAPTER 6--WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
 
Sec. 157. Application for withdrawal, reservation, or 
        restriction; specifications
        
    Any application filed on and after February 28, 1958 for a 
withdrawal, reservation, or restriction, the approval of which will, 
under section 156 of this title, require an Act of Congress, shall 
specify--
        (1) the name of the requesting agency and intended using agency;
        (2) location of the area involved, to include a detailed 
    description of the exterior boundaries and excepted areas, if any, 
    within such proposed withdrawal, reservation, or restriction;
        (3) gross land and water acreage within the exterior boundaries 
    of the requested withdrawal, reservation, or restriction, and net 
    public land, water, or public land and water acreage covered by the 
    application;
        (4) the purpose or purposes for which the area is proposed to be 
    withdrawn, reserved, or restricted, or if the purpose or purposes 
    are classified for national security reasons, a statement to that 
    effect;
        (5) whether the proposed use will result in contamination of any 
    or all of the requested withdrawal, reservation, or restriction 
    area, and if so, whether such contamination will be permanent or 
    temporary;
        (6) the period during which the proposed withdrawal, 
    reservation, or restriction will continue in effect;
        (7) whether, and if so to what extent, the proposed use will 
    affect continuing full operation of the public land laws and Federal 
    regulations relating to conservation, utilization, and development 
    of mineral resources, timber and other material resources, grazing 
    resources, fish and wildlife resources, water resources, and scenic, 
    wilderness, and recreation and other values; and
        (8) if effecting the purpose for which the area is proposed to 
    be withdrawn, reserved, or restricted, will involve the use of water 
    in any State, whether, subject to existing rights under law, the 
    intended using agency has acquired, or proposes to acquire, rights 
    to the use thereof in conformity with State laws and procedures 
    relating to the control, appropriation, use, and distribution of 
    water.

(Pub. L. 85-337, Sec. 3, Feb. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 28.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 155 of this title.
