43 U.S.C. § 956

Right of way for tramroads, canals, or reservoirs

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of the right of way through the public lands of the United States, not within the limits of any national forest, park, military or Indian reservation, for tramroads, canals, or reservoirs to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the canals and reservoirs and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, or fifty feet on each side of the center line of the tramroad, by any citizen or any association of citizens of the United States engaged in the business of mining or quarrying or of cutting timber and manufacturing lumber or for the purposes of furnishing water for domestic, public, and other beneficial uses.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1933–2005 · leading case: Hage v. United States, 51 Fed. Cl. 570 (Fed. Cl. 2002).
Hage v. United States, 51 Fed. Cl. 570 (Fed. Cl. 2002). “§ 946 ; Act of 1895, 43 U.S.C. § 956 ; and Act of 1901, 43 U.S.”
United States v. Weyerhaeuser Co., a Washington Corp., & Crown Zellerbach Corp., a Nevada Corp., 538 F.2d 1363 (9th Cir. 1976). “43 U.S.C. § 956 ; 43 C.F.R. § 2812 . 6-1(a) (Supp.”
Walker v. United States, 69 Fed. Cl. 222 (Fed. Cl. 2005). “§ 946 ; Act of 1895, 43 U.S.C. § 956 ; and Act of 1901, 43 U.S.”
Hage v. United States, 42 Fed. Cl. 249 (Fed. Cl. 1998). “§ 946 , 4 Act of 1895, 43 U.S.C. § 956 , 5 and Act of 1901, 43 U.”
Rickert v. Thompson, 8 Alaska 398 (D. Alaska 1933). “ditch, thereby practically preventing such work from benefiting the noncontiguous claim, but, in the case of ditches' where the intervening ground is public land of the government of the United States which by statute (title 30 U.”
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