---
kind: "title"
title: "43"
heading: "Public Lands"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43"
sections_count: 1464
---

# Title 43 — Public Lands

## Contents

- [Chapter 1 — Bureau of Land Management](/usc/43/ch1.md)
- [Chapter 2 — United States Geological Survey](/usc/43/ch2.md)
- [Chapter 3 — Surveys](/usc/43/ch3.md)
- [Chapter 4 — District Land Offices](/usc/43/ch4.md)
- [Chapter 5 — Land Districts](/usc/43/ch5.md)
- [Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry](/usc/43/ch6.md)
- [Chapter 7 — Homesteads](/usc/43/ch7.md)
- [Chapter 8 — Timber and Stone Lands](/usc/43/ch8.md)
- [Chapter 8A — Grazing Lands](/usc/43/ch8A.md)
- [Chapter 9 — Desert-Land Entries](/usc/43/ch9.md)
- [Chapter 10 — Underground-Water Reclamation Grants](/usc/43/ch10.md)
- [Chapter 11 — Discovery, Development, and Marking of Water Holes, Etc., by Government](/usc/43/ch11.md)
- [Chapter 11A — Board on Geographic Names](/usc/43/ch11A.md)
- [Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government](/usc/43/ch12.md)
- [Chapter 12A — Boulder Canyon Project](/usc/43/ch12A.md)
- [Chapter 12B — Colorado River Storage Project](/usc/43/ch12B.md)
- [Chapter 13 — Federal Lands Included in State Irrigation Districts](/usc/43/ch13.md)
- [Chapter 14 — Grants of Desert Lands to States for Reclamation](/usc/43/ch14.md)
- [Chapter 15 — Appropriation of Waters; Reservoir Sites](/usc/43/ch15.md)
- [Chapter 16 — Sale and Disposal of Public Lands](/usc/43/ch16.md)
- [Chapter 17 — Reservation and Sale of Town Sites on Public Lands](/usc/43/ch17.md)
- [Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands](/usc/43/ch18.md)
- [Chapter 19 — Bounty Lands](/usc/43/ch19.md)
- [Chapter 20 — Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes](/usc/43/ch20.md)
- [Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads](/usc/43/ch21.md)
- [Chapter 21A — Forfeiture of Northern Pacific Railroad Indemnity Land Grants](/usc/43/ch21A.md)
- [Chapter 22 — Rights-Of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands](/usc/43/ch22.md)
- [Chapter 23 — Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands](/usc/43/ch23.md)
- [Chapter 24 — Drainage under State Laws](/usc/43/ch24.md)
- [Chapter 25 — Unlawful Inclosures or Occupancy; Obstructing Settlement or Transit](/usc/43/ch25.md)
- [Chapter 25A — Lands Held under Color of Title](/usc/43/ch25A.md)
- [Chapter 26 — Abandoned Military Reservations](/usc/43/ch26.md)
- [Chapter 27 — Public Lands in Oklahoma](/usc/43/ch27.md)
- [Chapter 28 — Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Public Lands](/usc/43/ch28.md)
- [Chapter 29 — Submerged Lands](/usc/43/ch29.md)
- [Chapter 30 — Administration of Public Lands](/usc/43/ch30.md)
- [Chapter 31 — Department of the Interior](/usc/43/ch31.md)
- [Chapter 32 — Colorado River Basin Project](/usc/43/ch32.md)
- [Chapter 32A — Colorado River Basin Salinity Control](/usc/43/ch32A.md)
- [Chapter 32B — Colorado River Floodway](/usc/43/ch32B.md)
- [Chapter 33 — Alaska Native Claims Settlement](/usc/43/ch33.md)
- [Chapter 33A — Implementation of Alaska Native Claims Settlement and Alaska Statehood](/usc/43/ch33A.md)
- [Chapter 34 — Trans-Alaska Pipeline](/usc/43/ch34.md)
- [Chapter 35 — Federal Land Policy and Management](/usc/43/ch35.md)
- [Chapter 36 — Outer Continental Shelf Resource Management](/usc/43/ch36.md)
- [Chapter 37 — Public Rangelands Improvement](/usc/43/ch37.md)
- [Chapter 38 — Crude Oil Transportation Systems](/usc/43/ch38.md)
- [Chapter 39 — Abandoned Shipwrecks](/usc/43/ch39.md)
- [Chapter 40 — Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief](/usc/43/ch40.md)
- [Chapter 41 — Federal Land Transaction Facilitation](/usc/43/ch41.md)
- [Chapter 42 — Rural Water Supply](/usc/43/ch42.md)
- [Chapter 43 — Suspended Entries and Claims; Patents](/usc/43/ch43.md)
- [Chapter 44 — Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands](/usc/43/ch44.md)
- [Chapter 45 — State Control of Noxious Plants on Federal Lands](/usc/43/ch45.md)
- [Chapter 46 — Geospatial Data](/usc/43/ch46.md)
- [Chapter 47 — Reclamation Title Transfer](/usc/43/ch47.md)
- [Chapter 48 — Renewable Energy Production on Federal Land](/usc/43/ch48.md)
- [Chapter 49 — National Landslide Preparedness](/usc/43/ch49.md)
- [Chapter 50 — Western Water Infrastructure](/usc/43/ch50.md)