---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 958"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "958"
heading: "Rights of way for wagon roads or railroads"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/958"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Rights-Of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands"
---

# §958. Rights of way for wagon roads or railroads


In the form provided by existing law the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior may file and approve [surveys](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) and plats of any right of way for a wagon road, railroad, or other highway over and across any reservoir site when in his judgment the public interests will not be injuriously affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 427, § 1, 30 Stat. 1233.)

## 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Section repealed by Pub.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.