---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 6853"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "6853"
heading: "Digitization and publication of easements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/6853"
units:
  - "Chapter 87A — Modernizing Access to Public Land"
---

# §6853. Digitization and publication of easements

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 4 years after April 29, 2022, each of the [Secretaries](/usc/16/6851.md?p=4), to the maximum extent practicable, shall digitize and publish on the applicable agency website geographic information system mapping data that specifies, with respect to the relevant [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), all Federal interests in private land, including easements (other than flowage easements), reservations, and rights-of-way—
  - (1) to which the Federal Government does not have a fee title interest; and
  - (2) that may be used to provide public recreational access to the [Federal land](/usc/16/6851.md?p=1).
- (b) **Public comment—** The [Secretaries](/usc/16/6851.md?p=4) shall develop a process to allow members of the public to submit questions or comments regarding the information described in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–114, § 4, Apr. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 1176.)