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Rights of way. 



Transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines. Act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 

 1253) ; sec. 523, title 16, U. S. C. 



That the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands 

 be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regu- 

 lations to be fixed by him, to grant an easement for rights of way. 

 for a period not exceeding fifty years from the date of the issuance oi 

 such grant, over, across, and upon the public lands, national forests, 

 and reservations of the United States for electrical poles and lines for 

 the transmission and distribution of electrical power, and for poles 

 and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes, to the extent of twenty 

 feet on each side of the center linex)f such electrical, telephone and tele- 

 graph lines and poles, to any citizen, association, or corporation of the 

 United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the right of way 

 herein granted for any one or more of the purposes herein named: 

 Provided, That such right of way shall be allowed within or through 

 any national park, national forest, military, Indian, or any other reser- 

 vation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the department 

 under whose supervision or control such reservation falls, and upon a 

 finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the public inter- 

 est : Provided, That all or any part of such right of way may be for- 

 feited and annulled by declaration of the head of the department 

 having jurisdiction over the lands for nonuse for a period of two years 

 or for abandonment. 



That any citizen, association, or corporation of the United States 

 to whom there has heretofore been issued a permit for any of the 

 purposes specified herein under any existing law, may obtain the 

 benefit of this act upon the same terms and conditions as shall be 

 required of citizens, associations, or corporations hereafter making 

 application under the provisions of this statute. 



Railroads. 



Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. 482) ; sec. 934 ff., title 43„ TJ. S. C. (This act is ad- 

 ministered by the Department of the Interior.) Act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 

 1233) ; sec. 525, title 16, U. S. O. 



In the form provided by existing law, the Secretary of the Interior 

 may file and approve surveys and plats of any right of way for a wagon 

 road, railroad, or other highway over and across aity forest reservation 

 or reservoir site when in his judgment the public interests will not be 

 injuriously affected thereby. 



Irrigation. 



Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1101) ; sec. 946 ff., title 43, U. S. C. (This act is 

 administered by the Department of the Interior.) Act of May 11, 3898 (30 Stat. 

 404) ; sec. 951, title 43, U. S. C. 



Water power. 



Act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1077) ; Act of August 26, 1935 (49 Stat. 838) ; 

 sec. 792 ff., title 16, U. S. O. 



