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

# §641d. Effective date of quitclaim; administration of lands relinquished by States


The quitclaim or relinquishment of all right, title, and interest by the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) to any lands under sections [641a](/usc/43/641a.md) to 641d of this title shall not be effective until the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) has transferred the lands applied for under [section 641a of this title](/usc/43/641a.md). The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) shall provide for the administration and disposition under the public-land laws of the lands quitclaimed or relinquished by the [States](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) pursuant to sections [641a](/usc/43/641a.md) to 641d of this title.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 727, § 4, 68 Stat. 703.)