43 USC § 665 - Rights of way over reservoir sites for wagon road, railroad, or other highway

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title: "43 USC § 665 - Rights of way over reservoir sites for wagon road, railroad, or other highway"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "665"
section_name: "Rights of way over reservoir sites for wagon road, railroad, or other highway"
chapter_number: 15
chapter_name: "APPROPRIATION OF WATERS; RESERVOIR SITES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 427, § 1, 30 Stat. 1233.)"
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# § 665. Rights of way over reservoir sites for wagon road, railroad, or other highway

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 any reservoir site when in his judgment the public interests will not be injuriously affected thereby.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 427, § 1, 30 Stat. 1233.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeal; Savings Provision

Section repealed by , , , effective on and after , insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest Systems. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on , see , set out as a note under .