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43 USC § 416 - Laws applicable to withdrawn lands; restoration to entry 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s416"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 416 - Laws applicable to withdrawn lands; restoration to entry"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "416"
section_name: "Laws applicable to withdrawn lands; restoration to entry"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "INSTITUTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF PROJECTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 3, 32 Stat. 388; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.)"
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# § 416. Laws applicable to withdrawn lands; restoration to entry

All lands entered and entries made under the homestead laws within areas so withdrawn during such withdrawal shall be subject to all the provisions, limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of this Act; that said surveys shall be prosecuted diligently to completion, and upon the completion thereof, and of the necessary maps, plans, and estimates of cost, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine whether or not said project is practicable and advisable, and if determined to be impracticable or unadvisable he shall thereupon restore said lands to entry.

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**Source Credit**: (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 3, 32 Stat. 388; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act , popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

Said surveys, referred to in text, mean the surveys for contemplated irrigation works authorized by .

### Codification

Section is comprised of part of section 3 of act . Remainder of such section 3 is classified to sections 432 and 434 of this title.

### Amendments

1976— struck out provisions that the Secretary of the Interior withdraw from public entry lands required for irrigation works contemplated under the Act of , prior to the giving of the public notice provided for in , that he restore such withdrawn lands to public entry when he deemed such lands unnecessary for the purposes of such Act, and that he withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed to be susceptible of irrigation from said works prior to the beginning of surveys for any contemplated irrigation works.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

, , , provided that the amendment made by section 704(a) is effective on and after .

### Savings Provision

Amendment by  not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on , see , set out as a note under .

### Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see .