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[CITE: 43USC957]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 22--RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 957. Right of way to electric power companies

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered, under 
general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of right of 
way to the extent of twenty-five feet, together with the use of 
necessary ground, not exceeding forty acres, upon the public lands and 
national forests of the United States by any citizen or association of 
citizens of the United States for the purposes of generating, 
manufacturing, or distributing electric power.

(Jan. 21, 1895, ch. 37, Sec. 2, as added May 14, 1896, ch. 179, 29 Stat. 
120; amended Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269.)

                            Repeal of Section

        Section repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 
    21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, 
    insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, 
    under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest 
    System.

                          Codification

    The words ``national forests'' substituted in text for ``forest 
reservations'' pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1907, which changed the 
designation of forest reserves to national forests.


                            Savings Provision

    Repeal by Pub. L. 94-579 insofar as applicable to the issuance of 
rights-of-way not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, 
permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. 
L. 94-579, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.


                            Cross References

    Right-of-way over public lands for electrical poles and lines, see 
section 961 of this title.
