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type: "LegalText"
title: "16 U.S.C. § 822"
description: "Reservation of right to alter or repeal chapter"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
chapter_number: "12"
chapter_name: "FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER"
section: "822"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 822"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 822 - Reservation of right to alter or repeal chapter
## Text
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this chapter is expressly reserved; but no such alteration, amendment, or repeal shall affect any license theretofore issued under the provisions of this chapter or the rights of any licensee thereunder.
(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 28, 41 Stat. 1077; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.)