Any company mentioned in sections
687a,
687a–2 to
687a–5, and
942–1 to
942–9 of this title and sections
607a and
615a of title
16, by filing with the Secretary of the Interior a preliminary actual survey and plat of its proposed route, shall have the right at any time within one year thereafter to file the map and profile of definite location and such preliminary survey and plat shall during the said period of one year from the time of filing the same have the effect to render all the lands on which said preliminary survey and plat shall pass subject to the right of way mentioned in section
942–3 of this title.