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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 43USC361]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
CHAPTER 11--DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKING OF WATER HOLES, ETC., BY 
                               GOVERNMENT
 
Sec. 361. Authority to explore for, develop, and mark water 
        holes, etc.
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered, in his 
discretion in so far as the authorization made herein will permit, to 
discover, develop, protect, and render more accessible for the benefit 
of the general public, springs, streams, and water holes on arid public 
lands of the United States; and in connection therewith to erect and 
maintain suitable and durable monuments and signboards at proper places 
and intervals along and near the accustomed lines of travel and over the 
general area of said desert lands, containing information and directions 
as to the location and nature of said springs, streams, and water holes, 
to the end that the same may be more readily traced and found by persons 
in search or need thereof; also to provide convenient and ready means, 
apparatus, and appliances by which water may be brought to the earth's 
surface at said water holes for the use of such persons; also to prepare 
and distribute suitable maps, reports, and general information relating 
to said springs, streams, and water holes, and their specific location 
with reference to lines of travel.

(Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 360, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 518.)
