43 USC § 931c - Permits, leases, or easements; authorization to grant; payment; limitation

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title: "43 USC § 931c - Permits, leases, or easements; authorization to grant; payment; limitation"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "931c"
section_name: "Permits, leases, or easements; authorization to grant; payment; limitation"
chapter_number: 22
chapter_name: "RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1255, § 1, 68 Stat. 1146.)"
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# § 931c. Permits, leases, or easements; authorization to grant; payment; limitation

The head of any department or agency of the Government of the United States having jurisdiction over public lands and national forests, except national parks and monuments, of the United States is authorized to grant permits, leases, or easements, in return for the payment of a price representing the fair market value of such permit, lease, or easement, to be fixed by such head of such department or agency through appraisal, for a period not to exceed thirty years from the date of any such permit, lease, or easement to States, counties, cities, towns, townships, municipal corporations, or other public agencies for the purpose of constructing and maintaining on such lands public buildings or other public works. In the event such lands cease to be used for the purpose for which such permit, lease, or easement was granted, the same shall thereupon terminate.

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**Source Credit**: (Sept. 3, 1954, ch. 1255, § 1, 68 Stat. 1146.)

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Section repealed by , , , effective on and after , insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the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

### Existing Rights-of-Way

Provisions of , except as pertaining to rights-of-way, not to be construed as affecting the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture under this section, see , set out as a note under .