43 USC 2 - Sec. 2. Duties concerning public lands
43 USC - US Code - Title 43: Public Lands (January 2003)
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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.
Codification
R.S. Sec. 453 derived from acts Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, Sec. 1, 2 Stat. 716; July 4, 1836, ch. 352, Sec. 1, 5 Stat. 107; June 6, 1874, ch. 223, 18 Stat. 62; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 317.
Transfer Of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg.
Plan No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title. "The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall perform" substituted for "The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior," on authority of section 403 of Reorg.
Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
Bureau Of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority
Pub. L. 99-570, title V, subtitle C, as added by Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 6254(d)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4365, provided that: "SEC. 5061. SHORT TITLE. "This subtitle may be cited as the 'Bureau of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act'. "SEC. 5062. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZATION. "In order to improve Federal law enforcement activities relating to the use and production of narcotics and controlled substances on Bureau of Land Management public lands, from amounts appropriated there are made available to the Secretary of the Interior, in addition to sums made available under other authority of law, $1,500,000 for fiscal year 1989, and for each fiscal year thereafter, to be used for the employment and training of additional and existing personnel, for equipment and facilities to be used by such personnel, and for expenses related to such employment, training, equipment, and facilities."
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