---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 152"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "152"
heading: "Restoration of lands previously withdrawn"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/152"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry"
---

# §152. Restoration of lands previously withdrawn


Where under the law the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior is authorized or directed to make restoration of lands previously withdrawn he may also restrict the restoration as prescribed in [section 151 of this title](/usc/43/151.md).


## Source credit

(Sept. 30, 1913, ch. 15, § 2, 38 Stat. 114.)