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43 U.S.C. § 36b - Acquisition of lands or interests therein for use in gaging streams or underground water resources

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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. 86406, Apr. 4, 1960, 74 Stat. 14; Pub. L. 102154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000.)

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Editorial Notes

Amendments1960—Pub. L. 86406 authorized Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands and interests in lands for observation well sites to gage underground water resources.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name “United States Geological Survey” substituted in text for “Geological Survey” pursuant to provision of title I of Pub. L. 102154, set out as a note under section 31 of this title.