---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 315e"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "315e"
heading: "Rights of way; development of mineral resources"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/315e"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Grazing Lands"
  - "Subchapter I — Generally"
---

# §315e. Rights of way; development of mineral resources


Nothing contained in this subchapter shall restrict the acquisition, granting or use of permits or rights of way within grazing districts under existing law; or ingress or egress over the public lands in such districts for all proper and lawful purposes; and nothing contained in this subchapter shall restrict prospecting, locating, developing, mining, entering, leasing, or patenting the mineral resources of such districts under law applicable thereto.


## Source credit

(June 28, 1934, ch. 865, § 6, 48 Stat. 1272.)