43 U.S.C. § 959 : US Code - Section 959: Rights of way for electrical plants, etc.

Search 43 U.S.C. § 959 : US Code - Section 959: Rights of way for electrical plants, etc.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered, under
general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of rights
of way through the public lands, forest and other reservations of
the United States, and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant
national parks, California, for electrical plants, poles, and lines
for the generation and distribution of electrical power, and for
telephone and telegraph purposes, and for canals, ditches, pipes
and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, or other water conduits, and for
water plants, dams, and reservoirs used to promote irrigation or
mining or quarrying, or the manufacturing or cutting of timber or
lumber, or the supplying of water for domestic, public, or any
other beneficial uses to the extent of the ground occupied by such
canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, reservoirs, or other water
conduits or water plants, or electrical or other works permitted
hereunder, and not to exceed fifty feet on each side of the
marginal limits thereof, or not to exceed fifty feet on each side
of the center line of such pipes and pipe lines, electrical,
telegraph, and telephone lines and poles, by any citizen,
association, or corporation of the United States, where it is
intended by such to exercise the use permitted hereunder or any one
or more of the purposes herein named: Provided, That such permits
shall be allowed within or through any of said parks or any forest,
military, Indian, or other reservation only upon the approval of
the chief officer of the Department under whose supervision such
park or reservation falls and upon a finding by him that the same
is not incompatible with the public interest: Provided further,
That all permits given hereunder for telegraph and telephone
purposes shall be subject to the provisions of title 65 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States, and amendments thereto,
regulating rights of way for telegraph companies over the public
domain: And provided further, That any permission given by the
Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this section may
be revoked by him or his successor in his discretion, and shall not
be held to confer any right, or easement, or interest in, to, or
over any public land, reservation, or park.