---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 3"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "3"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 636"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Bureau of Land Management"
---

# [§3. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 636 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts July 11, 1890, ch. 667, § 1, 26 Stat. 257; June 17, 1910, ch. 297, 36 Stat. 512, provided for the office of an assistant commissioner of the General Land Office, which was subsequently abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100. That Plan provided for a Bureau of Land Management, including an Associate Director and as many Assistant Directors as the Secretary of the Interior may find necessary. See note set out under section 1 of this title.