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§ 36b. —  Acquisition of lands or interests therein for use in gaging streams or underground water resources.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC36b]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
               CHAPTER 2--UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
 
Sec. 36b. Acquisition of lands or interests therein for use in 
        gaging streams or underground water resources
        
    The Secretary of the Interior may, on behalf of the United States 
and for use by the United States Geological Survey in gaging streams and 
underground water resources, acquire lands by donation or when funds 
have been appropriated by Congress by purchase or condemnation, but not 
in excess of ten acres for any one stream gaging station or observation 
well site. For the same purpose the Secretary of the Interior may obtain 
easements, licenses, rights-of-way, and leases limited to run for such a 
period of time or term of years as may be required for the effective 
performance of the function of gaging streams and underground water 
resources: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as 
affecting or intended to affect or in any way to interfere with the laws 
of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, 
or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right 
acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out 
the provisions of this section, shall proceed in conformity with such 
laws, and nothing in this section shall in any way affect any right of 
any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, 
appropriator, or user of water, in, to, or from any interstate stream or 
the waters thereof.

(Dec. 24, 1942, ch. 822, 56 Stat. 1086; Pub. L. 86-406, Apr. 4, 1960, 74 
Stat. 14; Pub. L. 102-154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000.)


                               Amendments

    1960--Pub. L. 86-406 authorized Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
lands and interests in lands for observation well sites to gage 
underground water resources.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States Geological Survey'' substituted in text for 
``Geological Survey'' pursuant to provision of title I of Pub. L. 102-
154, set out as a note under section 31 of this title.



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