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[CITE: 48USC1706]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
        CHAPTER 15--CONVEYANCE OF SUBMERGED LANDS TO TERRITORIES
 
Sec. 1706. Reserved rights


(a) Establishment of naval defense sea areas and airspace reservations

    Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the President to 
establish naval defensive sea areas and naval airspace reservations 
around and over the islands of Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin 
Islands when deemed necessary for national defense.

(b) Navigation; flood control; power production

    Nothing in this Act shall affect the use, development, improvement, 
or control by or under the constitutional authority of the United States 
of the lands transferred by section 1705 of this title, and the 
navigable waters overlying such lands, for the purposes of navigation or 
flood control or the production of power, or be construed as the release 
or relinquishment of any rights of the United States arising under the 
constitutional authority of Congress to regulate or improve navigation, 
or to provide for flood control or the production of power.

(c) Navigational servitude and powers of regulation for purposes of 
        commerce, navigation, national defense, and international 
        affairs

    The United States retains all of its navigational servitude and 
rights in and powers of regulation and control of the lands conveyed by 
section 1705 of this title, and the navigable waters overlying such 
lands, for the constitutional purposes of commerce, navigation, national 
defense, and international affairs, all of which shall be paramount to, 
but shall not be deemed to include, proprietary rights of ownership, or 
the rights of management, administration, leasing, use, and development 
of the lands and natural resources which are specifically conveyed to 
the government of Guam, the Virgin Islands, or American Samoa, as the 
case may be, by section 1705 of this title.

(d) Status of lands beyond the three-mile limit

    Nothing in this Act shall affect the status of lands beyond the 
three-mile limit described in section 1705 of this title.

(Pub. L. 93-435, Sec. 2, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1211.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), is Pub. L. 93-
435, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1210, as amended, which enacted sections 
1705 to 1708 of this title, amended section 1545 of this title, and 
repealed sections 1701 to 1703 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1545, 1707, 1708 of this 
title.
