---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 641b"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "641b"
heading: "Filing of application for quitclaim deeds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/641b"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — Grants of Desert Lands to States for Reclamation"
---

# §641b. Filing of application for quitclaim deeds


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) shall not issue such quitclaim deeds or patents to any [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), however, unless that [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) files a proper application for the transfer of these lands within three years after August 13, 1954.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 727, § 2, 68 Stat. 703.)