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[CITE: 43USC971]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 22--RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 971. Bathhouses, hotels, etc., adjacent to mineral, 
        medicinal, etc., springs on public lands
        
    The Secretary of the Interior, upon such terms and under such 
regulations as he may deem proper, may permit responsible persons or 
associations to use and occupy, for the erection of bathhouses, hotels, 
or other improvements for the accommodation of the public, suitable 
spaces or tracts of land near or adjacent to mineral, medicinal, or 
other springs which are located upon unreserved public lands or public 
lands which have been withdrawn for the protection of such springs: 
Provided, That permits or leases hereunder shall be for periods not 
exceeding twenty years.

(Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 458, 43 Stat. 1133.)
