Federal · Title 43 — Public Lands
43 U.S.C. § 2101: Findings
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States have the responsibility for management of a broad range of living and nonliving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention.
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