---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 939"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "939"
heading: "Alteration, amendment, or repeal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/939"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Rights-Of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands"
---

# §939. Alteration, amendment, or repeal


Congress reserves the right at any time to alter, amend, or repeal sections [934](/usc/43/934.md) to 939 of this title, or any part thereof.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 152, § 6, 18 Stat. 483.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeal; Savings Provision

Section repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. L. 94–579, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.