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[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 Repealed.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.''



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