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16 U.S.C. § 474 — Surveys; plats and field notes; maps; effect under Act June 4, 1897
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Surveys, field notes, and plats returned from the survey of public lands designated as national forests undertaken under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey in accordance with provisions of Act June 4, 1897, chapter 2, section 1, thirtieth Statutes, page 34, shall have the same legal force and effect as surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the Field Surveying Service; and such surveys, which include subdivision surveys under the rectangular system, approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate as in other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the respective land offices of the districts in which such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are declared inoperative as respects such survey. A copy of every topographic map and other maps showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be certified thereto by the Director of the Survey and filed in the Bureau of Land Management.
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Surveys, field notes, and plats returned from the survey of public lands designated as national forests undertaken under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey in accordance with provisions of Act June 4, 1897, chapter 2, section 1, thirtieth Statutes, page 34, shall have the same legal force and effect as surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the Field Surveying Service; and such surveys, which include subdivision surveys under the rectangular system, approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate as in other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the respective land offices of the districts in which such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are declared inoperative as respects such survey. A copy of every topographic map and other maps showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be certified thereto by the Director of the Survey and filed in the Bureau of Land Management.
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**(a) Establishment of office; appointment and duties; examination of geological structure, mineral resources, and products of national domain; prohibitions in respect to lands and surveys** The Director of the United States Geological Survey, which office is established, under the Interior Department, shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. This officer shall have the direction of the United States Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain. The Director and members of the United States Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations.
**(b) Examination of geological structure, mineral resources, and products outside national domain** The authority of the Secretary of the Interior, exercised through the United States Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior, to examine the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, is expanded to authorize such examinations outside the national domain where determined by the Secretary to be in the national interest.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 473
1 See References in Text note below.
‘‘(B) under a timber sale contract, including a
qualifying contract, before the date on which the
Secretary adjusts the contract term under sub-
section (c).
‘‘(2) RELEASE OF LIABILITY.—In the written request
for any option provided under subsections (b) and (c),
a timber purchaser shall release the United States
from all liability, including further consideration or
compensation, resulting from—
‘‘(A) the cancellation of a qualifying contract of
the purchaser or rate redetermination under sub-
section (b)(1), the substitution of a Producer Price
Index under subsection (b)(2), the modification of
the contract under subsection (b)(3) or a determina-
tion by the Secretary not to provide the cancella-
tion, redetermination, substitution, or modifica-
tion; or
‘‘(B) the modification of the term of a timber sale
contract (including a qualifying contract) of the
purchaser under subsection (c) or a determination
by the Secretary not to provide the modification.
‘‘(3) LIMITATION.—Subject to subsection (b)(1)(A),
the cancellation of a qualifying contract by the Sec-
retary under subsection (b)(1) shall release the timber
purchaser from further obligation under the canceled
contract.’’
[Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical
provisions. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a)
of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701
of Title 7, Agriculture.]
USE OF RECEIPTS FROM TIMBER SALES FOR ROAD
CONSTRUCTION
Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(h) [title II], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat.
1783–242, 1783–271, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(h) [title II],
Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–242, 3341–271, provided that:
‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-
retary of Agri
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