43 U.S.C. § 155 : US Code - Section 155: Withdrawal, reservation, or restriction of public lands for defense purposes; "public lands" defined; exception

Search 43 U.S.C. § 155 : US Code - Section 155: Withdrawal, reservation, or restriction of public lands for defense purposes; "public lands" defined; exception

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, except in time of
war or national emergency hereafter declared by the President or
the Congress, on and after February 28, 1958 the provisions hereof
shall apply to the withdrawal and reservation for, restriction of,
and utilization by, the Department of Defense for defense purposes
of the public lands of the United States, including public lands in
the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii: Provided, That -
(1) for the purposes of this Act, the term "public lands" shall
be deemed to include, without limiting the meaning thereof,
Federal lands and waters of the Outer Continental Shelf, as
defined in section 1331 of this title, and Federal lands and
waters off the coast of the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii;
(2) nothing in this Act shall be deemed to be applicable to the
withdrawal or reservation of public lands specifically as naval
petroleum, naval oil shale, or naval coal reserves;
(3) nothing in this Act shall be deemed to be applicable to the
warning areas over the Federal lands and waters of the Outer
Continental Shelf and Federal lands and waters off the coast of
the Territory of Alaska reserved for use of the military
departments prior to August 7, 1953, and
(4) nothing in this section, section 156, or section 157 of
this title shall be deemed to be applicable either to those
reservations or withdrawals which expired due to the ending of
the unlimited national emergency of May 27, 1941, and which
subsequent to such expiration have been and are now used by the
military departments with the concurrence of the Department of
the Interior, or to the withdrawal of public domain lands of the
Marine Corps Training Center, Twentynine Palms, California, and
the naval gunnery ranges in the State of Nevada designated as
Basic Black Rock and Basic Sahwave Mountain.