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[CITE: 43USC49]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
               CHAPTER 2--UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
 
Sec. 49. Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico

    The provisions of law authorizing the making of topographic and 
geological surveys and conducting investigations relating to mineral and 
water resources by the United States Geological Survey in various 
portions of the United States be, and the same are, extended to 
authorize such surveys and investigations in Puerto Rico.

(June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out 
under section 1451 of this title.
