---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 971d"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "971d"
heading: "Effect on valid existing Alaskan rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/971d"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Rights-Of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands"
---

# §971d. Effect on valid existing Alaskan rights


Nothing in sections [971a](/usc/43/971a.md) to [971e](/usc/43/971e.md) of this title shall affect adversely any valid existing rights.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 848, § 4, 70 Stat. 898.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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