16 U.S.C. § 45c: Prior claims, locations, and…

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Existing valid claims, locations, or entries made before July 3, 1926 under U.S. land laws (for homestead, minerals, right-of-way, or other uses) stay in force. People with those claims keep the right to fully use and enjoy their land. The Secretary of the Interior may make rules and issue permits to legitimate claimants, owners, or lessees inside the park to cut timber for use on and to improve their land, and may allow grazing with fees no higher than Forest Service fees on nearby lands, so long as these uses do not harm the park’s main purpose. No permit, license, lease, or other approval for water storage or carriage works or for power development or transmission inside the park can be granted without specific approval from Congress.

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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