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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "16 U.S.C. § 1285a"
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description: "Lease of Federal lands"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 16
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title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_number: "28"
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chapter_name: "WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS"
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section: "1285a"
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citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1285a"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s1285a"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 1285a - Lease of Federal lands
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## Text
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(a) Authority of Secretary; restrictive covenants Where appropriate in the discretion of the Secretary, he may lease federally owned land (or any interest therein) which is within the boundaries of any component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and which has been acquired by the Secretary under this chapter. Such lease shall be subject to such restrictive covenants as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
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(b) Offer to prior owner Any land to be leased by the Secretary under this section shall be offered first for such lease to the person who owned such land immediately before its acquisition by the United States.
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(Pub. L. 90–542, § 14A, as added Pub. L. 95–625, title VII, § 764, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3534.)
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