---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 971a"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "971a"
heading: "Alaskan lands within highway, telephone, and pipeline withdrawals; disposal; amendment of land description of claim or entry on adjoining lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/971a"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Rights-Of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands"
---

# §971a. Alaskan lands within highway, telephone, and pipeline withdrawals; disposal; amendment of land description of claim or entry on adjoining lands


Upon revocation of a withdrawal for highways, telephone lines, or pipelines, in Alaska, the lands involved shall be subject to disposal only under laws specified by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior, subject to easements as established by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7). Notwithstanding any statutory limitation on the area which may be included in an unpatented claim or entry, the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) may permit the amendment of the land description of a claim or entry on adjoining lands to include the restored lands.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 848, § 1, 70 Stat. 898.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

This section was formerly classified to section 420 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.