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

Summary

Valid land claims, locations, or entries made before July 3, 1926 stay in force. People with those prior claims can keep and use their land as before. The Secretary of the Interior can make rules and issue permits to those claimants, owners, or lessees to cut timber for use on their land and to graze livestock. Fees for grazing cannot be higher than what the Forest Service charges nearby, and the activities must not harm the park’s main purpose. Any permit for water or power projects (like dams, reservoirs, power plants, or transmission lines) needs 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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