43 U.S.C. § 942-5 : US Code - Section 942-5: Filing map and profile of road section; forfeiture of rights; reversion of grant

Search 43 U.S.C. § 942-5 : US Code - Section 942-5: Filing map and profile of road section; forfeiture of rights; reversion of grant

Any company desiring to secure the benefits of sections 687a,
687a-2 to 687a-5,(!1) and 942-1 to 942-9 of this title and sections
607a and 615a of title 16, shall, within twelve months after filing
the preliminary map of location of its road as hereinbefore
prescribed, whether upon surveyed or unsurveyed lands, file with
such officer as the Secretary of the Interior may designate of the
land office for the district where such land is located a map and
profile of at least a twenty-mile section of its road or a profile
of its entire road if less than twenty miles, as definitely fixed;
and shall thereafter each year definitely locate and file a map of
such location as aforesaid of not less than twenty miles additional
of its line of road until the entire road has been thus definitely
located, and upon approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior
the same shall be noted upon the records of said office, and
thereafter all such lands over which such right of way shall pass
shall be disposed of subject to each right of way: Provided, That
if any section of said road shall not be completed within one year
after the definite location of said section so approved, or if the
map of definite location be not filed within one year as herein
required, or if the entire road shall not be completed within four
years from the filing of the map of definite location, the rights
herein granted shall be forfeited as to any such uncompleted
section of said road, and thereupon shall revert to the United
States without further action or declaration, the notation of such
uncompleted section upon the records of the land office shall be
canceled, and the reservations of such lands for the purposes of
said right of way, stations, and terminals shall cease and become
null and void without further action.