---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 294.17"
title: "36"
number: "294.17"
heading: "Scope and applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/294.17"
---

# §294.17. Scope and applicability.

- (a) The provisions of this subpart apply exclusively to the development and review of petitions made pursuant to this subpart.
- (b) Nothing in this subpart shall be construed to provide for the transfer to, or administration by, a State or local authority of any Federally owned lands.
- (c) Nothing in this subpart, nor any regulation promulgated pursuant to this petitioning process, shall prohibit the exercise of any valid existing rights.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 472, 529, 551, 1608, 1613; 23 U.S.C. 201, 205.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 25661, May 13, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 472, 529, 551, 1131, 1608, and 1613 and 23 U.S.C. 201 and 205.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 5852, Mar. 5, 1973, unless otherwise noted.