public lands

The term “public lands” means any land and interest in land owned by the United States within the several States and administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management, without regard to how the United States acquired ownership, except—

Source

43 USC § 1702(e)

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Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (subchapter I) of this section.

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