---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 3103"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "3103"
heading: "Ground subsidence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/3103"
units:
  - "Chapter 49 — National Landslide Preparedness"
---

# §3103. Ground subsidence


As the [Secretary](/usc/43/3101.md?p=8) determines to be appropriate and subject to appropriations, the [Secretary](/usc/43/3101.md?p=8), through existing programs, shall advance the identification, mapping, research, and monitoring of subsidence and groundwater resource accounting, particularly in areas affected by drought.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–323, § 4, Jan. 5, 2021, 134 Stat. 5081.)