---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 852b"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "852b"
heading: "Survey of lands prior to transfer; time for survey; availability of funds; lands suitable for transfer"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/852b"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes"
---

# §852b. Survey of lands prior to transfer; time for survey; availability of funds; lands suitable for transfer


Prior to issuance of an instrument of transfer, lands must be surveyed. The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior shall within five years, subject to the availability of funds, [survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) the exterior boundaries of lands approved as suitable for transfer to the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–470, § 4, June 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 220.)