§ 157. — Application for withdrawal, reservation, or restriction; specifications.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC157]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 6--WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
Sec. 157. Application for withdrawal, reservation, or
restriction; specifications
Any application filed on and after February 28, 1958 for a
withdrawal, reservation, or restriction, the approval of which will,
under section 156 of this title, require an Act of Congress, shall
specify--
(1) the name of the requesting agency and intended using agency;
(2) location of the area involved, to include a detailed
description of the exterior boundaries and excepted areas, if any,
within such proposed withdrawal, reservation, or restriction;
(3) gross land and water acreage within the exterior boundaries
of the requested withdrawal, reservation, or restriction, and net
public land, water, or public land and water acreage covered by the
application;
(4) the purpose or purposes for which the area is proposed to be
withdrawn, reserved, or restricted, or if the purpose or purposes
are classified for national security reasons, a statement to that
effect;
(5) whether the proposed use will result in contamination of any
or all of the requested withdrawal, reservation, or restriction
area, and if so, whether such contamination will be permanent or
temporary;
(6) the period during which the proposed withdrawal,
reservation, or restriction will continue in effect;
(7) whether, and if so to what extent, the proposed use will
affect continuing full operation of the public land laws and Federal
regulations relating to conservation, utilization, and development
of mineral resources, timber and other material resources, grazing
resources, fish and wildlife resources, water resources, and scenic,
wilderness, and recreation and other values; and
(8) if effecting the purpose for which the area is proposed to
be withdrawn, reserved, or restricted, will involve the use of water
in any State, whether, subject to existing rights under law, the
intended using agency has acquired, or proposes to acquire, rights
to the use thereof in conformity with State laws and procedures
relating to the control, appropriation, use, and distribution of
water.
(Pub. L. 85-337, Sec. 3, Feb. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 28.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 155 of this title.
