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43 USC § 49 - Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s49"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 49 - Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "49"
section_name: "Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)"
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# § 49. Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico

The provisions of law authorizing the making of topographic and geological surveys and conducting investigations relating to mineral and water resources by the United States Geological Survey in various portions of the United States be, and the same are, extended to authorize such surveys and investigations in Puerto Rico.

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**Source Credit**: (June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)

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### 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 .