§157 Application for withdrawal, reservation, or restriction; specifications

Summary

If an agency files an application on or after February 28, 1958 for a land withdrawal, reservation, or restriction that will need Congress to approve it, the application must give certain basic facts. It must name the agency asking and the agency that will use the area; show the exact location with outside boundaries and any excluded spots; give total acres inside the outer boundary and the net public acres covered; explain the purpose or say if the purpose is classified for national security; say if the use will cause contamination and whether that would be temporary or permanent; state how long the action will last; describe how it will affect federal land laws and resource uses (minerals, timber, grazing, fish and wildlife, water, recreation, etc.); and, if it will use water in any State, say whether, subject to existing legal water rights, the using agency has obtained or plans to obtain water rights under that State’s laws.