---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1771"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1771"
heading: "Coordination of applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1771"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Federal Land Policy and Management"
  - "Subchapter V — Rights-Of-Way"
---

# §1771. Coordination of applications


Applicants before Federal [departments](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m) and [agencies](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m) other than the [Department](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m) of the Interior or Agriculture seeking a license, certificate, or other authority for a project which involve a [right-of-way](/usc/43/1702.md?p=f) over, upon, under, or through public land or National Forest System lands must simultaneously apply to the [Secretary](/usc/43/1702.md?p=g) concerned for the appropriate authority to use [public lands](/usc/43/1702.md?p=e) or National Forest System lands and submit to the [Secretary](/usc/43/1702.md?p=g) concerned all information furnished to the other Federal [department](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m) or [agency](/usc/43/1702.md?p=m).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–579, title V, § 511, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2782.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

See note set out under section 1763 of this title.