[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR1864.0-5]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 1860_CONVEYANCES, DISCLAIMERS AND CORRECTION DOCUMENTS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart 1864_Recordable Disclaimers of Interest in Land
 
Sec. 1864.0-5  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart, the term:
    (a) Authorized officer means any employee of the Bureau of Land 
Management who has been delegated the authority to perform the duties 
described in this subpart.
    (b) Accreted lands have the meaning imparted to them by applicable 
law. In

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general, they are lands that have been gradually and imperceptibly 
formed along the banks of a body of water by deposition of water-borne 
soil.
    (c) Avulsed lands have the meaning imparted to them by applicable 
law. In general, they are lands that have been uncovered by a relatively 
sudden change in alignment of the channel of a river, or by a comparable 
change in some other body of water, or that remain as uplands following 
such a change, or that are located in the bed of the new channel.
    (d) Actual shoreline means the line which is washed by the water 
wherever it covers the bed of a body of water at its mean high water 
level.
    (e) Lands means lands and interests in lands now or formerly forming 
a part of the reserved or unreserved public lands of the contiguous 48 
States and Alaska and as to any coastal State, includes submerged lands 
inside of the seaward boundary of the State.
    (f) Meander line means a survey line established for the purpose of 
representing the location of the actual shoreline of a permanent natural 
body of water, without showing all the details of its windings and 
irregularities. A meander line rarely runs straight for any substantial 
distance. It is established not as a boundary line but in order to 
permit calculation of the quantity of lands in the fractional sections 
remaining after segregation of the water area.
    (g) Relicted lands have the meaning imparted that term by applicable 
law. In general, they are lands gradually uncovered when water recedes 
permanently.
    (h) State means ``the state and any of its creations including any 
governmental instrumentality within a state, including cities, counties, 
or other official local governmental entities.''

[49 FR 35299, Sept. 6, 1984, as amended at 68 FR 502, Jan. 6, 2003]