[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: 36CFR14.70]

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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 E--Power Transmission Lines, General
 
Sec. 14.70  Statutory authority.


    (a) The Act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat. 790; 43 U.S.C. 959), 
authorizes the Secretary under such regulations as he may fix, to permit 
the use of rights-of-way through public lands and certain reservations 
of the United States, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the 
generation and distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and 
telegraph purposes, and for pipe lines, canals, ditches, water plants, 
and other purposes to the extent of the ground occupied by such canals, 
ditches, water plants, or other works permitted thereunder and not to 
exceed 50 feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, or not to 
exceed 50 feet on each side of the center line of such pipe lines, 
telephone and telegraph lines, and transmission lines, by any citizen, 
association, or corporation of the United States, where it is intended 
by such to exercise the use permitted under the Act.
    (b) The Act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 1253; 43 U.S.C. 961), as 
amended, authorizes the head of the department having jurisdiction over 
the lands, under general regulations fixed by him, to grant an easement 
for rights-of-way for a period not exceeding 50 years, over and across 
public lands and reservations of the United States, for poles and lines 
for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, and for poles 
and lines for communication purposes and for radio, television and other 
forms of communication transmitting, relay

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and receiving structures and facilities to the extent of 200 feet on 
each side of the center line of such lines and poles and not to exceed 
four hundred feet by four hundred feet for superstructures and 
facilities to any citizen, association, or corporation of the United 
States, where it is intended by such to exercise the use permitted under 
the Act.