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Bureau of Land Management (43 USC Ch. 1)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Document type
Legislation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Livestock, Land & soil
Keyword
Institution Land commission Survey/mapping Public land Private land Ownership Property rights Transfer Grazing
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter provides for the Bureau of Land Management. The chapter provides that the functions of the General Land Office and of the Grazing Service in the Department of the Interior are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Bureau of Land Management. The functions of the other agencies named in subsection (d) of this section are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall perform all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of the Government.

Full text
English
Website
uscode.house.gov