§45c — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Valid land claims, locations, or entries made before July 3, 1926 stay valid. People with those claims keep the right to use and enjoy their land. The Secretary of the Interior can, under rules he sets, give permits to legitimate claimants, owners, or lessees to cut timber for use or improvement of their land and to graze livestock. Fees for grazing cannot be higher than Forest Service rates nearby, and these activities must not harm the park’s main purpose. No permit or lease for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other water or power works inside the park can be granted without Congress’s specific approval.

Title 16, §45c

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Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry established prior to July 3, 1926, under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right-of-way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land: Provided, That under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him the Secretary of the Interior may issue permits to any bona fide claimant, entryman, landowner, or lessee of land within the boundaries herein established to secure timber for use on and for the improvement of his land; and he shall also have authority to issue, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, grazing permits and authorize the grazing of livestock on the lands within said park at fees not to exceed those charged by the Forest Service on adjacent areas, so long as such timber cutting and grazing are not detrimental to the primary purpose for which such park is created: Provided, That no permit, license, lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the development, transmission, or utilization of power within the limits of said park as constituted by said sections, shall be granted or made without specific authority of Congress.

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Herein, referred to in text, means act July 3, 1926, which is classified to section 45a, 45b to 45e, and 688 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

§45c Prior claims, locations, and entries; permits for use of natural resources

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Title 16, §45c

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