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legal/us/code/title-43/chapter-39/section-2101.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "43 U.S.C. § 2101"
+description: "Findings"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 43
+title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
+chapter_number: "39"
+chapter_name: "ABANDONED SHIPWRECKS"
+section: "2101"
+citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2101"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc43@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s2101"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-43/usc43.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 43 U.S.C. § 2101 - Findings
+
+## Text
+
+The Congress finds that—
+
+(a) States have the responsibility for management of a broad range of living and nonliving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and
+
+(b) included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention.
+
+(Pub. L. 100–298, § 2, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 432.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
+
+Short TitlePub. L. 100–298, § 1, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 432, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987’.”