16 U.S.C. § 420 : US Code - Section 420: Rights-of-way through military and other reservations for power and communications facilities

Search 16 U.S.C. § 420 : US Code - Section 420: Rights-of-way through military and other reservations for power and communications facilities

The head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands is
authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by
him, to grant an easement for rights-of-way, for a period not
exceeding fifty years from the date of the issuance of such grant,
over, across, and upon the public lands and reservations of the
United States for electrical poles and lines for the transmission
and distribution of electrical power, and for poles and lines for
communication purposes, and for radio, television, and other forms
of communication transmitting, relay, and receiving structures and
facilities, to the extent of two hundred feet on each side of the
center line of such lines and poles and not to exceed four hundred
feet by four hundred feet for radio, television, and other forms of
communication transmitting, relay, and receiving structures and
facilities, to any citizen, association, or corporation of the
United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the right-
of-way herein granted for any one or more of the purposes herein
named: Provided, That such right-of-way shall be allowed within or
through any national park, military or any other reservation only
upon the approval of the chief officer of the department under
whose supervision or control such reservation falls, and upon a
finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the public
interest: Provided further, That all or any part of such right-of-
way may be forfeited and annulled by declaration of the head of
the department having jurisdiction over the lands for nonuse for a
period of two years or for abandonment.
Any citizen, association, or corporation of the United States to
whom there has been issued a permit prior to March 4, 1911, for any
of the purposes specified herein under any law existing at that
date, may obtain the benefit of this section upon the same terms
and conditions as shall be required of citizens, associations, or
corporations making application under the provisions of this
section subsequent to such date.