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16 U.S.C. § 420 — Omitted
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Section, acts Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 238, 36 Stat. 1253; May 27, 1952, ch. 338, 66 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793; Pub. L. 113–287, § 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which authorized heads of departments to grant easements for rights-of-way on “the public lands, national forests, and reservations of the United States” for electrical power and communications purposes, was omitted because act Mar. 4, 1911, is also classified to [section 961 of Title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section961&num=0&edition=prelim), Public Lands. It was also classified to sections 5 and 523 of this title prior to their omission from the Code.
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, acts Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 238, 36 Stat. 1253; May 27, 1952, ch. 338, 66 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793; Pub. L. 113–287, § 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which authorized heads of departments to grant easements for rights-of-way on “the public lands, national forests, and reservations of the United States” for electrical power and communications purposes, was omitted because act Mar. 4, 1911, is also classified to [section 961 of Title 43](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section961&num=0&edition=prelim), Public Lands. It was also classified to sections 5 and 523 of this title prior to their omission from the Code.
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That the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to grant an easement for rights-of-way, for a period not exceeding fifty years from the date of the issuance of such grant, over, across, and upon the public lands, national forests, and reservations of the United States for electrical poles and lines for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, and for poles and lines for communication purposes, and for radio, television, and other forms of communication transmitting, relay, and receiving structures and facilities, to the extent of two hundred feet on each side of the center line of such lines and poles and not to exceed four hundred feet by four hundred feet for radio, television, and other forms of communication transmitting, relay, and receiving structures and facilities, to any citizen, association, or corporation of the United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the right-of-way herein granted for any one or more of the purposes herein named: Provided, That such right-of-way shall be allowed within or through any national park, national forest, military, Indian, or any other reservation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the department under whose supervision or control such reservation falls, and upon a finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the public interest: Provided further, That all or any part of such right-of-way may be forfeited and annulled by declaration of the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands for nonuse for a period of two years or for abandonment.
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Page 473
TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 422a
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘distant’’.
ferred to section 79 of this title and subsequently omit-
ted from the Code. Act Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 372, is also clas-
sified to section 959 of Title 43, Public Lands.
§ 420. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, acts Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 238, 36 Stat. 1253; May
27, 1952, ch. 338, 66 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, §
706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793; Pub. L. 113–287, § 7,
Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which authorized heads of
departments to grant easements for rights-of-way on
‘‘the public lands, national forests, and reservations of
the United States’’ for electrical power and commu-
nications purposes, was omitted because act Mar. 4,
1911, is also classified to section 961 of Title 43, Public
Lands. It was also classified to sections 5 and 523 of this
title prior to their omission from the Code.
§ 421. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 355, § 1, 37 Stat. 442; July
26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501, related to
vacancies occurring in commissions in charge of parks.
Section was restated as section 103303 of Title 54, Na-
tional Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L.
113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3166.
§ 422. Moores Creek National Battlefield; estab-
lishment
In order to preserve for historical and profes-
sional military study one of the most memo-
rable battles of the Revolutionary War, the bat-
tlefield of Moores Creek, in the State of North
Carolina, is declared to be a national battlefield
whenever the title to the same shall have been
acquired by the United States; that is to say,
the area inclosed by the following lines:
Those tracts or parcels of land in the county
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