§ 1. — Repealed.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Sec. 1. Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80
Stat. 632
Section, R.S. Sec. 446; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July
16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided that there shall be in
the Department of the Interior a Director of the Bureau of Land
Management. Provision for a Bureau of Land Management in the Department
of the Interior and for the structure of such Bureau is contained in
section 403 of the 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, which is set out below.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out
under section 1451 of this title.
For transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds, see
sections 1001 to 1003 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, eff. July 16, 1946,
11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097, set out in the Appendix to Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees.
Bureau of Land Management Created
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R.
7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided:
``(a) The functions of the General Land Office and of the Grazing
Service in the Department of the Interior are hereby consolidated to
form a new agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the
Bureau of Land Management. The functions of the other agencies named in
subsection (d) of this section are hereby transferred to the Secretary
of the Interior.
``(b) There shall be at the head of such Bureau a Director of the
Bureau of Land Management, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of
the Interior under the classified civil service, who shall receive a
salary at the rate of $10,000 per annum, and who shall perform such
duties as the Secretary of the Interior shall designate.
``(c) There shall be in the Bureau of Land Management an Associate
Director of the Bureau of Land Management and so many Assistant
Directors of the Bureau of Land Management as may be necessary, who
shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior under the classified
civil service and subject to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended,
and who shall perform such duties as the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe.
``(d) The General Land Office, the Grazing Service, the offices of
Commissioner of the General Land Office, Assistant Commissioner of the
General Land Office, Director of the Grazing Service, all Assistant
Directors of the Grazing Service, all registers of the district land
offices, and United States Supervisor of Surveys, together with the
Field Surveying Service now known as the Cadastral Engineering Service,
are hereby abolished.
``(e) The Bureau of Land Management and its functions shall be
administered subject to the direction and control of the Secretary of
the Interior, and the functions transferred to the Secretary by
subsection (a) of this section shall be performed by the Secretary or,
subject to his direction and control, by such officers and agencies of
the Department of the Interior as he may designate.''