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43 U.S.C. § 931c — Permits, leases, or easements; authorization to grant; payment; limitation
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The head of any department or agency of the Government of the United States having jurisdiction over public lands and national forests, except national parks and monuments, of the United States is authorized to grant permits, leases, or easements, in return for the payment of a price representing the fair market value of such permit, lease, or easement, to be fixed by such head of such department or agency through appraisal, for a period not to exceed thirty years from the date of any such permit, lease, or easement to States, counties, cities, towns, townships, municipal corporations, or other public agencies for the purpose of constructing and maintaining on such lands public buildings or other public works. In the event such lands cease to be used for the purpose for which such permit, lease, or easement was granted, the same shall thereupon terminate.
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The head of any department or agency of the Government of the United States having jurisdiction over public lands and national forests, except national parks and monuments, of the United States is authorized to grant permits, leases, or easements, in return for the payment of a price representing the fair market value of such permit, lease, or easement, to be fixed by such head of such department or agency through appraisal, for a period not to exceed thirty years from the date of any such permit, lease, or easement to States, counties, cities, towns, townships, municipal corporations, or other public agencies for the purpose of constructing and maintaining on such lands public buildings or other public works. In the event such lands cease to be used for the purpose for which such permit, lease, or easement was granted, the same shall thereupon terminate.
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**(a)** The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States that—
(1) the public lands be retained in Federal ownership, unless as a result of the land use planning procedure provided for in this Act, it is determined that disposal of a particular parcel will serve the national interest;
(2) the national interest will be best realized if the public lands and their resources are periodically and systematically inventoried and their present and future use is projected through a land use planning process coordinated with other Federal and State planning efforts;
(3) public lands not previously designated for any specific use and all existing classifications of public lands that were effected by executive action or statute before October 21, 1976, be reviewed in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4) the Congress exercise its constitutional authority to withdraw or otherwise designate or dedicate Federal lands for specified purposes and that Congress delineate the extent to which the Executive may withdraw lands without legislative action;
(5) in administering public land statutes and exercising discretionary authority granted by them, the Secretary be required to establish comprehensive rules and regulations after considering the views of the general public; and to structure adjudication procedures to assure adequate third party participation, objective administrative review of initial decisions, and expeditious decisionmaking;
(6) judicial review of public land adjudication decisions be provided by law;
(7) goals and objectives be established by law as guidelines for public land use planning, and that management be on the basis of multiple use and sustained yield unless otherwise specified by law;
(8) the public lands be managed in a manner t
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The authority conferred by [section 931c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section931c&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of any authority heretofore conferred upon the head of any department or agency of the Government of the United States to grant permits, leases, easements, or rights-of-way.
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 935
§ 931c. Permits, leases, or easements; authoriza-
tion to grant; payment; limitation
The head of any department or agency of the
Government of the United States having juris-
diction over public lands and national forests,
except national parks and monuments, of the
United States is authorized to grant permits,
leases, or easements, in return for the payment
of a price representing the fair market value of
such permit, lease, or easement, to be fixed by
such head of such department or agency through
appraisal, for a period not to exceed thirty years
from the date of any such permit, lease, or ease-
ment to States, counties, cities, towns, town-
ships, municipal corporations, or other public
agencies for the purpose of constructing and
maintaining on such lands public buildings or
other public works. In the event such lands
cease to be used for the purpose for which such
permit, lease, or easement was granted, the
same shall thereupon terminate.
(Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1255, § 1, 68 Stat. 1146.)
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
REPEAL; SAVINGS PROVISION
Section repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 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. Such repeal
not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, per-
mit, 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.
EXISTING RIGHTS-OF-WAY
Provisions of section 706(a) of Pub. L. 94–579, except
as pertaining to rights-of-way, not to be construed as
affecting the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture
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