[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR14.51]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 14--RIGHTS-OF-WAY--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart D--Under Title 23, U.S.C. (Interstate and Defense Highway 
                                 System)
 
Sec. 14.51  Extent of grant.

    By decision of the Secretary, Nevada Department of Highways, 
A.24151, September 1945, it was held that the law

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imports discretion and indicates no intent to vest in the State a right 
at the end of the four months' period without further action by the 
Department having jurisdiction. It was held further that the interest 
transferred under the statute is merely a right-of-way or right to take 
materials and that the Government may reserve the right to dispose of 
leasable minerals.