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

# §971e. Definition of restored Alaskan lands


For the purposes of sections [971a](/usc/43/971a.md) to 971e of this title, the words “restored lands” include, without limiting the meaning thereof, those lands at Big Delta and Tok Junctions that are withdrawn by public land orders numbered 808 and 975 and that lie between the centerline of the Richardson and Glenn Highways and the land included within United States [surveys](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) 2727, 2728, 2770, 2771, 2772, 2773, 2774, 2723, 2724, 2725, and 2726.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 848, § 5, as added Pub. L. 86–512, June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 207.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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