43 USC § 32 - Acting Director

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title: "43 USC § 32 - Acting Director"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "32"
section_name: "Acting Director"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 1, 28 Stat. 197; Pub. L. 102–154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000.)"
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# § 32. Acting Director

The Secretary of the Interior may authorize one of the geologists to act as Director of the United States Geological Survey in the absence of that officer.

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**Source Credit**: (July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 1, 28 Stat. 197; Pub. L. 102–154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000.)

## 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 , set out as a note under .

## Executive Documents

### 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, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out under .