-CITE- 30 USC TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING -MISC1- Chap. Sec. 1. United States Bureau of Mines 1 2. Mineral Lands and Regulations in General 21 3. Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone 71 3A. Leases and Prospecting Permits 181 4. Lease of Gold, Silver, or Quicksilver Deposits When Title Confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims 291 5. Lease of Oil and Gas Deposits in or Under Railroads and Other Rights-of-Way 301 6. Synthetic Liquid Fuel Demonstration Plants [Omitted] 321 7. Lease of Mineral Deposits Within Acquired Lands 351 8. Development of Lignite Coal Resources 401 9. Rare and Precious Metals Experiment Station 411 10. Coal Mine Safety [Repealed] 451 11. Mining Claims on Lands Subject to Mineral Leasing Laws 501 12. Multiple Mineral Development of the Same Tracts 521 12A. Entry and Location on Coal Lands on Discovery of Source Material 541 13. Control of Coal-Mine Fires 551 14. Anthracite Mine Drainage and Flood Control 571 15. Surface Resources 601 16. Mineral Development of Lands Withdrawn for Power Development 621 17. Exploration Program for Discovery of Minerals 641 18. Coal Research and Development 661 19. Lead and Zinc Stabilization Program [Omitted] 681 20. Conveyances to Occupants of Unpatented Mining Claims 701 21. Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety [Repealed] 721 22. Mine Safety and Health 801 23. Geothermal Steam and Associated Geothermal Resources 1001 24. Geothermal Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration 1101 25. Surface Mining Control and Reclamation 1201 26. Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources 1401 27. Geothermal Energy 1501 28. Materials and Minerals Policy, Research, and Development 1601 29. Oil and Gas Royalty Management 1701 30. National Critical Materials Council 1801 31. Marine Mineral Resources Research 1901 -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -MISC1- Sec. 1. United States Bureau of Mines; establishment; director; experts and other employees. 1a. Transfer of activities, employees, records, etc., from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines. 2. Performance of duties in absence of director. 3. Duties of United States Bureau of Mines. 4. Investigation of lignite coal and peat. 4a. Omitted. 4b. Cooperation with individuals, municipalities, etc.; contracts with owners; agreements as to prices. 4c. Investigation of sub-bituminous and lignite coal. 4d. Plants, machinery, and equipment. 4e. Omitted. 4f to 4o. Transferred. 5. Reports of investigations. 6. Personal interest of director and members of Bureau in mines. 7. Fees for tests or investigations. 8. Additional mining experiment stations and mine safety stations authorized. 9. Acceptance of lands from States. 10. Headquarters of mine rescue cars; site for experimental work; leases and donations. 11, 12. Omitted or Repealed. 13. Research laboratory for utilization of anthracite coal; establishment and maintenance. 14. Acquisition of land; cooperation with other agencies. 15. Repealed. 16. Research laboratory for utilization of anthracite coal; establishment of advisory committee; composition; functions; appointment. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 1 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 1. United States Bureau of Mines; establishment; director; experts and other employees -STATUTE- There is hereby established in the Department of the Interior a bureau of mining, metallurgy, and mineral technology, to be designated the United States Bureau of Mines, and there shall be a director of said bureau, who shall be thoroughly equipped for the duties of said office by technical education and experience and who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and there shall also be in the said bureau such experts and other employees, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, as may be required to carry out the purposes of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title in accordance with the appropriations made from time to time by Congress for such purposes. -SOURCE- (May 16, 1910, ch. 240, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 369; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 681; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1925; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out below. Section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285 provided that: "The Bureau of Mines established by the Act of May 16, 1910 (30 U.S.C. 1), is designated as and shall hereafter [on and after May 18, 1992] be known as the United States Bureau of Mines." -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Pub. L. 104-134, title I, Sec. 101(c) [title I], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321-156, 1321-167; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104-140, Sec. 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327, provided in part: "That there hereby are transferred to, and vested in, the Secretary of Energy: (1) the functions pertaining to the promotion of health and safety in mines and the mineral industry through research vested by law in the Secretary of the Interior or the United States Bureau of Mines and performed in fiscal year 1995 by the United States Bureau of Mines at its Pittsburgh Research Center in Pennsylvania, and at its Spokane Research Center in Washington; (2) the functions pertaining to the conduct of inquiries, technological investigations and research concerning the extraction, processing, use and disposal of mineral substances vested by law in the Secretary of the Interior or the United States Bureau of Mines and performed in fiscal year 1995 by the United States Bureau of Mines under the minerals and materials science programs at its Pittsburgh Research Center in Pennsylvania, and at its Albany Research Center in Oregon; and (3) the functions pertaining to mineral reclamation industries and the development of methods for the disposal, control, prevention, and reclamation of mineral waste products vested by law in the Secretary of the Interior or the United States Bureau of Mines and performed in fiscal year 1995 by the United States Bureau of Mines at its Pittsburgh Research Center in Pennsylvania: Provided further, That, if any of the same functions were performed in fiscal year 1995 at locations other than those listed above, such functions shall not be transferred to the Secretary of Energy from those other locations: Provided further, That the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to make such determinations as may be necessary with regard to the transfer of functions which relate to or are used by the Department of the Interior, or component thereof affected by this transfer of functions, and to make such dispositions of personnel, facilities, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds held, used, arising from, available to or to be made available in connection with, the functions transferred herein as are deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes of this transfer: Provided further, That all reductions in personnel complements resulting from the provisions of this Act [probably means Pub. L. 104-134, title I, Sec. 101(c), Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321-156; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104-140, Sec. 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327, known as the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, see Tables for classification] shall, as to the functions transferred to the Secretary of Energy, be done by the Secretary of the Interior as though these transfers had not taken place but had been required of the Department of the Interior by all other provisions of this Act before the transfers of function became effective: Provided further, That the transfers of function to the Secretary of Energy shall become effective on the date specified by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, but in no event later than 90 days after enactment into law of this Act [Apr. 26, 1996]: Provided further, That the reference to 'function' includes, but is not limited to, any duty, obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, and activity, or the plural thereof, as the case may be." [Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, title I, Sec. 101(e) [title II], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-233, 3009-244, provided in part: "That the functions described in clause (1) of the first proviso under the subheading 'mines and minerals' under the heading 'Bureau of Mines' in the text of title I of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, as enacted by section 101(c) of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-134) [set out above], are hereby transferred to, and vested in, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, subject to section 1531 of title 31, United States Code".] Functions vested in, or delegated to, Secretary of Energy and Department of Energy under or with respect to sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title and other authorities relating to certain fossil energy research and development transferred to, and vested in, Secretary of the Interior, by section 100 of Pub. L. 97-257, 96 Stat. 841, set out as a note under section 7152 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Functions of Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior, and officers and components of Department of the Interior under sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title and other authorities exercised by Bureau of Mines relating to fuel supply and demand analysis and data gathering, research and development relating to increased efficiency of production technology of solid fuel minerals other than research relating to mine health and safety and research relating to the environmental and leasing consequences of solid fuel mining, and coal preparation and analysis transferred to, and vested in, Secretary of Energy as part of the creation of Department of Energy by Pub. L. 95-91, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 565. See section 7152(d) of Title 42. For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Bureau of Mines originally created in Department of the Interior. Bureau transferred to Department of Commerce by Ex. Ord. No. 4239, but transferred back to Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. No. 6611. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 of this title; title 42 sections 5821, 7152. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 1a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 1a. Transfer of activities, employees, records, etc., from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines -STATUTE- There is hereby transferred from the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, to the Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Mines, all those activities of the Minerals Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce concerned with economic and statistical analyses of mineral commodities, domestic and foreign, together with all employees, records, files, equipment, publications, and funds pertaining thereto, effective immediately. -SOURCE- (May 9, 1935, ch. 101, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 205; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 2 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 2. Performance of duties in absence of director -STATUTE- On and after July 1, 1916, in the absence of the Director of the United States Bureau of Mines the assistant director of said bureau shall perform the duties of the director during the latter's absence, and in the absence of the Director and of the Assistant Director of the United States Bureau of Mines the Secretary of the Interior may designate some officer of said bureau to perform the duties of the director during his absence. -SOURCE- (July 1, 1916, ch. 209, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 303; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1925; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 3 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 3. Duties of United States Bureau of Mines -STATUTE- It shall be the province and duty of the United States Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; to investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use; and to disseminate information concerning these subjects in such manner as will best carry out the purposes of the provisions of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title. -SOURCE- (May 16, 1910, ch. 240, Sec. 2, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, Sec. 2, 37 Stat. 681; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1925; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 of this title; title 42 sections 5821, 7152. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 4 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 4. Investigation of lignite coal and peat -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make experiments and investigations, through the United States Bureau of Mines, of lignite coals and peat, to determine the commercial and economic practicability of their utilization in producing fuel oil, gasoline substitutes, ammonia, tar, solid fuels, gas for power, and other purposes. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed subject to applicable regulations under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949,(!1) as amended, to sell or otherwise dispose of any property, plant, or machinery purchased or acquired under the provisions of this section, as soon as the experiments and investigations authorized have been concluded, and report the results of such experiments and investigations to Congress. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1919, ch. 23, Secs. 1, 2, 40 Stat. 1154; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1925; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, Sec. 2(18), 65 Stat. 707; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, referred to in text, is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, as amended. Except for title III of the Act, which is classified generally to subchapter IV (Sec. 251 et seq.) of chapter 4 of Title 41, Public Contracts, the Act was repealed and reenacted by Pub. L. 107-217, Secs. 1, 6(b), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062, 1304, as chapters 1 to 11 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. -COD- CODIFICATION First sentence of this section is from first clause of section 1 of act Feb. 25, 1919. Second sentence is from section 2 of said act. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1951 - Act Oct. 31, 1951, inserted reference to applicable regulations of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 4a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 4a. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act June 25, 1926, ch. 674, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 768, authorized appropriation of $100,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, and the four succeeding fiscal years for investigation of potash deposits. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 4b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 4b. Cooperation with individuals, municipalities, etc.; contracts with owners; agreements as to prices -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce jointly are hereby authorized, within their discretion, to cooperate under formal agreement with individuals, associations, corporations, States, and municipalities, educational institutions, or other bodies, for the purposes of this section: Provided, That before undertaking drilling operations upon any tract or tracts of land, the mineral deposits of which are not the property of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce jointly shall enter into a contract or contracts with the owners or lessees, or both, of the mineral rights therein, and the aforesaid contract or contracts shall provide, among other things, that, if deposits of potash minerals or oil shall be discovered in pursuance of operations under said contract or contracts and if and when said mineral deposits shall be mined and sold, the owners or lessees, or both, of said mineral rights shall pay to the Government and its cooperators a royalty of not less than 2 1/2 per centum of the sale value of any potash minerals and oil therefrom, said payments to continue until such time as the total amount derived from said royalty is equal to not more than the cost of the exploration, as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce jointly: Provided further, That all Federal claims for reimbursement under this section shall automatically expire twenty years from the date of approval of the contracts entered into, in accordance with the provisions thereof, unless sooner terminated by agreement between the owners or lessees of the potash mineral rights and oil and the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce jointly: Provided further, That said contract or contracts shall not restrict the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce jointly in the choice of drilling locations within the property or in the conduct of the exploratory operations, so long as such selection or conduct do not interfere unreasonably with the surface of the land or with the improvements thereof, and said contract or contracts shall provide that the United States shall not be liable for damages on account of such reasonable use of the surface as may be necessary in the proper conduct of the work. -SOURCE- (June 25, 1926, ch. 674, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 768; Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 356, 44 Stat. 1388.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1927 - Act Mar. 3, 1927, amended provisions generally. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 4c 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 4c. Investigation of sub-bituminous and lignite coal -STATUTE- The United States Bureau of Mines, under the general direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to conduct investigations, studies, and experiments on its own initiative and in cooperation with individuals, State institutions, laboratories, and other organizations, with a view to (1) the development of a commercially practicable carbonization method of processing sub-bituminous and lignite coal so as to convert such coal into an all-purpose fuel, to provide fertilizers, and obtain such other byproducts thereof as may be commercially valuable; (2) the development of efficient methods, equipment, and devices for burning lignite or char therefrom; and (3) determining and developing methods for more efficient utilization of such sub-bituminous and lignite coal for purposes of generating electric power. -SOURCE- (May 15, 1936, ch. 397, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1275; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 4d of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 4d 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 4d. Plants, machinery, and equipment -STATUTE- The United States Bureau of Mines is further authorized, under the general direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to erect such plants, construct and purchase such machinery and equipment, and to take such other steps as it may deem necessary and proper to effectuate the purposes of section 4c of this title. -SOURCE- (May 15, 1936, ch. 397, Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1275; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 4e 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 4e. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act May 15, 1936, ch. 397, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 1275, appropriated $100,000 for carrying out provisions of sections 4c and 4d of this title to be expended during certain fiscal years, the last ending June 30, 1939. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 4f to 4o 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Secs. 4f to 4g742o. Transferred -COD- CODIFICATION Sections 4f to 4o were transferred to sections 451 to 460, respectively, of this title, and subsequently repealed by Pub. L. 91-173, title V, Sec. 509, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 803. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 5 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 5. Reports of investigations -STATUTE- The Director of the United States Bureau of Mines shall prepare and publish, subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under the appropriations made from time to time by Congress, reports of inquiries and investigations, with appropriate recommendations of the bureau, concerning the nature, causes, and prevention of accidents, and the improvement of conditions, methods, and equipment, with special reference to health, safety, and prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; the use of explosives and electricity, safety methods and appliances, and rescue and first-aid work in said industries; the causes and prevention of mine fires; and other subjects included under the provisions of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title. -SOURCE- (May 16, 1910, ch. 240, Sec. 3, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, Sec. 3, 37 Stat. 681; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1925; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 1, 3, 6, 7, 8 of this title; title 42 sections 5821, 7152. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 6 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 6. Personal interest of director and members of Bureau in mines -STATUTE- In conducting inquiries and investigations authorized under sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title neither the director nor any member of the United States Bureau of Mines shall have any personal or private interest in any mine or the products of any mine under investigation, or shall accept employment from any private party for services in the examination of any mine or private mineral property, or issue any report as to the valuation or the management of any mine or other private mineral property. Nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the temporary employment by the United States Bureau of Mines, at a compensation not to exceed $10 per day, in a consulting capacity or in the investigation of special subjects, of any engineer or other expert whose principal professional practice is outside of such employment by said bureau. -SOURCE- (May 16, 1910, ch. 240, Sec. 4, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, Sec. 4, 37 Stat. 682; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 of this title; title 42 sections 5821, 7152. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 7 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 7. Fees for tests or investigations -STATUTE- For tests or investigations authorized by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title, except those performed for the Government of the United States or State governments within the United States, a fee sufficient in each case to compensate the United States Bureau of Mines for the entire cost of the services rendered shall be charged, according to a schedule prepared by the Director of the United States Bureau of Mines and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall prescribe rules and regulations under which such tests and investigations may be made. All moneys received from such sources shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. -SOURCE- (May 16, 1910, ch. 240, Sec. 5, 36 Stat. 370; Feb. 25, 1913, ch. 72, Sec. 5, 37 Stat. 682; June 30, 1932, ch. 314, Sec. 311, 47 Stat. 410; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1935; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1932 - Act June 30, 1932, substituted "Secretary of Commerce" for "Secretary of the Interior" and changed a reasonable fee to be charged to a fee sufficient to compensate for entire cost of services rendered. -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -MISC2- EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1932 AMENDMENT Amendment by act June 30, 1932, effective July 1, 1932, see section 314 of that act. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 of this title; title 42 sections 5821, 7152. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 8 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 8. Additional mining experiment stations and mine safety stations authorized -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain in the several important mining regions of the United States and the Territory of Alaska, as Congress may appropriate for the necessary employees and other expenses, under the United States Bureau of Mines and in accordance with the provisions of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title, ten mining experiment stations and seven mine safety stations, movable or stationary, in addition to those established prior to March 3, 1915, the province and duty of which shall be to make investigations and disseminate information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, safeguarding life among employees, preventing unnecessary waste of resources, and otherwise contributing to the advancement of these industries. Not more than three mining experiment stations and mine safety stations authorized in this section shall be established in any one fiscal year under the appropriations made therefor. -SOURCE- (Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 95, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 959; Ex. Ord. No. 4239, June 4, 1925; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 9 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 9 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 9. Acceptance of lands from States -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept lands, buildings, or other contributions from the several States offering to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of section 8 of this title. -SOURCE- (Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 95, Sec. 2, 38 Stat. 959; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 10 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 10. Headquarters of mine rescue cars; site for experimental work; leases and donations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements that may be donated for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental mine and plant for studying explosives, and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress. -SOURCE- (June 5, 1920, ch. 235, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 912; Ex. Ord. No. 6611, Feb. 22, 1934.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 11 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 11. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act May 9, 1938, ch. 187, Sec. 1, 52 Stat. 329, providing that purchase of supplies and equipment or procurement of services for Bureau of Mines might be made in open market without compliance with section 5 of Title 41, Public Contracts, where amount involved did not exceed $100, was a provision of Interior Department appropriation act and was discontinued in acts subsequent to 1938 appropriation act. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 12 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 12. Repealed. Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, Sec. 1(16), 65 Stat. 638 -MISC1- Section, act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 961, 60 Stat. 1057, related to preservation of technical and economic records of domestic sources of ores of metals and minerals. See sections 2103, 2908, and 3102 of Title 44, Public Printing and Documents. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 13 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 13. Research laboratory for utilization of anthracite coal; establishment and maintenance -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain a research laboratory in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania to conduct researches and investigations on the mining, preparation, and utilization of anthracite coal and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for anthracite coal and its products. Such laboratory shall be planned as a center for information and assistance in matters pertaining to conserving resources for national defense; to the more efficient mining, preparation, and utilization of anthracite coal; and pertaining to safety, health, and sanitation in mining operations and other matters relating to problems of the anthracite industry. -SOURCE- (Dec. 18, 1942, ch. 764, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 1056.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS Section 5 of act Dec. 18, 1942, provided that: "In order to carry out the purposes of this Act [sections 13 to 16 of this title] there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of (a) $450,000 for the erection and equipment of a building or buildings, including plumbing, lighting, heating, general service, and experimental equipment and apparatus, the necessary roads, walks, and ground improvement, and land for the site of the building if no land is donated; and (b) $175,000 annually for the maintenance and operation of the experimental station, including personal services, supplies, equipment, and expenses of travel and subsistence." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 14 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 14 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 14. Acquisition of land; cooperation with other agencies -STATUTE- For the purpose of sections 13 to 16 of this title the Secretary, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized to acquire land and interests therein, and to accept in the name of the United States donations of any property, real or personal, and to utilize voluntary or uncompensated services at such laboratory. The Secretary is authorized and directed to cooperate with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, and State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business or other organizations, corporations, associations, universities, scientific societies, and individuals, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. -SOURCE- (Dec. 18, 1942, ch. 764, Sec. 2, 56 Stat. 1057.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 15 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 15. Repealed. Pub. L. 86-533, Sec. 1(17), June 29, 1960, 74 Stat. 248 -MISC1- Section, act Dec. 18, 1942, ch. 764, Sec. 3, 56 Stat. 1057, related to reports to Congress of expenditures and donations to laboratory established under sections 13 to 16 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 16 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 1 - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES -HEAD- Sec. 16. Research laboratory for utilization of anthracite coal; establishment of advisory committee; composition; functions; appointment -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, may, in his discretion, create and establish an advisory committee composed of not more than six members to exercise consultative functions, when required by the Secretary, in connection with the administration of sections 13 to 16 of this title. The said committee shall be composed of representatives of anthracite coal mine owners, of representatives of anthracite coal mine workers and the public in equal number. The members of said committee shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior without regard to the civil-service laws. -SOURCE- (Dec. 18, 1942, ch. 764, Sec. 4, 56 Stat. 1057.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The civil-service laws, referred to in text, are set forth in Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- TERMINATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 14 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -MISC1- Sec. 21. Mineral lands reserved. 21a. National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs. 22. Lands open to purchase by citizens. 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes. 24. Proof of citizenship. 25. Affidavit of citizenship. 26. Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment. 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right. 28. Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner's succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure. 28-1. Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions. 28-2. Definitions. 28a. Omitted. 28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions. 28c. Length and termination of deferment. 28d. Performance of deferred work. 28e. Recordation of deferment. 28f. Fee. (a) Claim maintenance fee. (b) Time of payment. (c) Oil shale claims subject to claim maintenance fees under Energy Policy Act of 1992. (d) Waiver. 28g. Location fee. 28h. Co-ownership. 28i. Failure to pay. 28j. Other requirements. (a) Federal Land Policy and Management Act requirements. (b) Omitted. (c) Fee adjustments. 28k. Regulations. 29. Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits. 30. Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title. 31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim. 32. Findings by jury; costs. 33. Existing rights. 34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls. 35. Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land. 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements. 37. Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent. 38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent. 39. Surveyors of mining claims. 40. Verification of affidavits. 41. Intersecting or crossing veins. 42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment. (a) Vein or lode and mill site owners eligible. (b) Placer claim owners eligible. 43. Conditions of sale by local legislature. 44, 45. Omitted. 46. Additional land districts and officers. 47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property. 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands. 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands. 49a. Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State. 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska. 49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims. 49d. Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized. 49e. Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury. 49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements. 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands. 51. Water users' vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession. 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights. 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title. 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in title 16 section 1907; title 43 sections 299, 1783. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 21 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 21. Mineral lands reserved -STATUTE- In all cases lands valuable for minerals shall be reserved from sale, except as otherwise expressly directed by law. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2318.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2318 derived from act July 4, 1866, ch. 166, Sec. 5, 14 Stat. 86. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 43 section 1712. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 21a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 21a. National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs -STATUTE- The Congress declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government in the national interest to foster and encourage private enterprise in (1) the development of economically sound and stable domestic mining, minerals, metal and mineral reclamation industries, (2) the orderly and economic development of domestic mineral resources, reserves, and reclamation of metals and minerals to help assure satisfaction of industrial, security and environmental needs, (3) mining, mineral, and metallurgical research, including the use and recycling of scrap to promote the wise and efficient use of our natural and reclaimable mineral resources, and (4) the study and development of methods for the disposal, control, and reclamation of mineral waste products, and the reclamation of mined land, so as to lessen any adverse impact of mineral extraction and processing upon the physical environment that may result from mining or mineral activities. For the purpose of this section "minerals" shall include all minerals and mineral fuels including oil, gas, coal, oil shale and uranium. It shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior to carry out this policy when exercising his authority under such programs as may be authorized by law other than this section. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 91-631, title I, Sec. 101, formerly Sec. 2, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1876; Pub. L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1081(b), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 721; renumbered title I, Sec. 101, Pub. L. 104-325, Sec. 2(1), (2), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3994.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1995 - Pub. L. 104-66 in last par. struck out at end "For this purpose the Secretary of the Interior shall include in his annual report to the Congress a report on the state of the domestic mining, minerals, and mineral reclamation industries, including a statement of the trend in utilization and depletion of these resources, together with such recommendations for legislative programs as may be necessary to implement the policy of this section." SHORT TITLE Section 1 of Pub. L. 91-631 provided: "That this Act [enacting this section] may be cited as the 'Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970'." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 1292, 1601, 1605 of this title; title 43 sections 1701, 1866. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 22 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 22. Lands open to purchase by citizens -STATUTE- Except as otherwise provided, all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2319.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2319 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 1, 17 Stat. 91. Words "Except as otherwise provided," were editorially supplied on authority of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, popularly known as the Mineral Lands Leasing Act, which is classified to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. -MISC1- SHORT TITLE Sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 43, and 47 of this title are based on sections of the Revised Statutes which are derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, 17 Stat. 91, popularly known as the "General Mining Act of 1872". -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 23 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes -STATUTE- Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, located prior to May 10, 1872, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location. A mining claim located after the 10th day of May 1872, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the 10th day of May 1872 render such limitation necessary. The end lines of each claim shall be parallel to each other. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2320.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2320 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 2, 17 Stat. 91. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 24 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 24. Proof of citizenship -STATUTE- Proof of citizenship, under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, may consist, in the case of an individual, of his own affidavit thereof; in the case of an association of persons unincorporated, of the affidavit of their authorized agent, made on his own knowledge, or upon information and belief; and in the case of a corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, by the filing of a certified copy of their charter or certificate of incorporation. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2321.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2321 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 7, 17 Stat. 94. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 25 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 25. Affidavit of citizenship -STATUTE- Applicants for mineral patents, if residing beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make any oath or affidavit required for proof of citizenship before the clerk of any court of record or before any notary public of any State or Territory. -SOURCE- (Apr. 26, 1882, ch. 106, Sec. 2, 22 Stat. 49.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 26 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 26. Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment -STATUTE- The locators of all mining locations made on any mineral vein, lode, or ledge, situated on the public domain, their heirs and assigns, where no adverse claim existed on the 10th day of May 1872 so long as they comply with the laws of the United States, and with State, territorial, and local regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes, and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations. But their right of possession to such outside parts of such veins or ledges shall be confined to such portions thereof as lie between vertical planes drawn downward as above described, through the end lines of their locations, so continued in their own direction that such planes will intersect such exterior parts of such veins or ledges. Nothing in this section shall authorize the locator or possessor of a vein or lode which extends in its downward course beyond the vertical lines of his claim to enter upon the surface of a claim owned or possessed by another. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2322.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2322 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 3, 17 Stat. 91. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 27 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right -STATUTE- Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface; and locations on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall be invalid; but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2323.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2323 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 4, 17 Stat. 92. -MISC1- SHORT TITLE This section is popularly known as the Tunnel Site Act. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28. Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner's succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure -STATUTE- The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims made after May 10, 1872, shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the 10th day of May 1872, that is granted a waiver under section 28f of this title, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the 10th day of May 1872, $10 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made each year, for each one hundred feet in length along the vein until a patent has been issued therefor; but where such claims are held in common, such expenditure may be made upon any one claim; and upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location. Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by this section, his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required expenditures. The period within which the work required to be done annually on all unpatented mineral claims located since May 10, 1872, including such claims in the Territory of Alaska, shall commence at 12 o'clock meridian on the 1st day of September succeeding the date of location of such claim. Where a person or company has or may run a tunnel for the purposes of developing a lode or lodes, owned by said person or company, the money so expended in said tunnel shall be taken and considered as expended on said lode or lodes, whether located prior to or since May 10, 1872; and such person or company shall not be required to perform work on the surface of said lode or lodes in order to hold the same as required by this section. On all such valid claims the annual period ending December 31, 1921, shall continue to 12 o'clock meridian July 1, 1922. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2324; Feb. 11, 1875, ch. 41, 18 Stat. 315; Jan. 22, 1880, ch. 9, Sec. 2, 21 Stat. 61; Aug. 24, 1921, ch. 84, 42 Stat. 186; Pub. L. 85-736, Sec. 1, Aug. 23, 1958, 72 Stat. 829; Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10105(b), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 406.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2324 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 5, 17 Stat. 92. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1993 - Pub. L. 103-66 inserted "that is granted a waiver under section 28f of this title," after "On each claim located after the 10th day of May 1872,". 1958 - Pub. L. 85-736 changed period for doing annual assessment work on unpatented mineral claims, substituting "1st day of September" for "1st day of July". ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. ASSESSMENT WORK YEARS, 1957-58 AND 1958-59 Section 2 of Pub. L. 85-736 provided that the period commencing in 1957 for the performance of annual assessment work under this section shall end at 12 o'clock meridian on the 1st day of July 1958, and the period commencing in 1958 for the performance of such annual assessment work shall commence at 12 o'clock meridian on the 1st day of July 1958, and shall continue to 12 o'clock meridian on Sept. 1, 1959. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 28-1, 28b, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732; title 50 App. section 565. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28-1 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28-1. Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions -STATUTE- The term "labor", as used in the third sentence of section 28 of this title, shall include, without being limited to, geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys conducted by qualified experts and verified by a detailed report filed in the county office in which the claim is located which sets forth fully (a) the location of the work performed in relation to the point of discovery and boundaries of the claim, (b) the nature, extent, and cost thereof, (c) the basic findings therefrom, and (d) the name, address, and professional background of the person or persons conducting the work. Such surveys, however, may not be applied as labor for more than two consecutive years or for more than a total of five years on any one mining claim, and each such survey shall be nonrepetitive of any previous survey on the same claim. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-876, Sec. 1, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1701.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 28-2 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 43 section 1744. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28-2 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28-2. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in section 28-1 of this title, (a) The term "geological surveys" means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of geology as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; (b) The term "geochemical surveys" means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of chemistry as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; (c) The term "geophysical surveys" means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits through the employment of generally recognized equipment and methods for measuring physical differences between rock types or discontinuities in geological formations; (d) The term "qualified expert" means an individual qualified by education or experience to conduct geological, geochemical or geophysical surveys, as the case may be. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-876, Sec. 2, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1701.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28a. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act June 29, 1950, ch. 404, 64 Stat. 275, provided for extension of time of annual assessment work, on mining claims in the United States, including Alaska, for period commencing July 1, 1949, until 12 o'clock noon Oct. 1, 1950, and also provided for commencement of assessment work or improvements required for year ending 12 o'clock noon July 1, 1951, immediately following 12 o'clock noon July 1, 1950. See sections 28b to 28e of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions -STATUTE- The performance of not less than $100 worth of labor or the making of improvements aggregating such amount, which labor or improvements are required under the provisions of section 28 of this title to be made during each year, may be deferred by the Secretary of the Interior as to any mining claim or group of claims in the United States upon the submission by the claimant of evidence satisfactory to the Secretary that such mining claim or group of claims is surrounded by lands over which a right-of-way for the performance of such assessment work has been denied or is in litigation or is in the process of acquisition under State law or that other legal impediments exist which affect the right of the claimant to enter upon the surface of such claim or group of claims or to gain access to the boundaries thereof. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, Sec. 1, 63 Stat. 214.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28c, 28d, 28e of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28c 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28c. Length and termination of deferment -STATUTE- The period for which said deferment may be granted shall end when the conditions justifying deferment have been removed: Provided, That the initial period shall not exceed one year but may be renewed for a further period of one year if justifiable conditions exist: Provided further, That the relief available under sections 28b to 28e of this title is in addition to any relief available under any other Act of Congress with respect to mining claims. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 215.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28d, 28e of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28d 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28d. Performance of deferred work -STATUTE- All deferred assessment work shall be performed not later than the end of the assessment year next subsequent to the removal or cessation of the causes for deferment or the expiration of any deferments granted under sections 28b to 28e of this title and shall be in addition to the annual assessment work required by law in such year. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, Sec. 3, 63 Stat. 215.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28b, 28c, 28e of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28e 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28e. Recordation of deferment -STATUTE- Claimant shall file or record or cause to be filed or recorded in the office where the notice or certificate of location of such claim or group of claims is filed or recorded, a notice to the public of claimant's petition to the Secretary of the Interior for deferment under sections 28b to 28e of this title, and of the order or decision disposing of such petition. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, Sec. 4, 63 Stat. 215.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28b, 28c, 28d of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28f 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28f. Fee -STATUTE- (a) Claim maintenance fee The holder of each unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site, located pursuant to the mining laws of the United States, whether located before, on or after August 10, 1993, shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before September 1 of each year for years 2002 through 2003, a claim maintenance fee of $100 per claim or site (!1) Such claim maintenance fee shall be in lieu of the assessment work requirement contained in the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28-28e) (!2) and the related filing requirements contained in section 1744(a) and (c) of title 43. (b) Time of payment The claim maintenance fee payable pursuant to subsection (a) of this section for any assessment year shall be paid before the commencement of the assessment year, except that for the initial assessment year in which the location is made, the locator shall pay the claim maintenance fee at the time the location notice is recorded with the Bureau of Land Management. The location fee imposed under section 28g of this title shall be payable not later than 90 days after the date of location. (c) Oil shale claims subject to claim maintenance fees under Energy Policy Act of 1992 This section shall not apply to any oil shale claims for which a fee is required to be paid under section 2511(e)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-486; 106 Stat. 3111; 30 U.S.C. 242). (d) Waiver (1) The claim maintenance fee required under this section may be waived for a claimant who certifies in writing to the Secretary that on the date the payment was due, the claimant and all related parties - (A) held not more than 10 mining claims, mill sites, or tunnel sites, or any combination thereof, on public lands; and (B) have performed assessment work required under the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28-28e) (!1) to maintain the mining claims held by the claimant and such related parties for the assessment year ending on noon of September 1 of the calendar year in which payment of the claim maintenance fee was due. (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), with respect to any claimant, the term "related party" means - (A) the spouse and dependent children (as defined in section 152 of title 26), of the claimant; and (B) a person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the claimant. For purposes of this section, the term control includes actual control, legal control, and the power to exercise control, through or by common directors, officers, stockholders, a voting trust, or a holding company or investment company, or any other means. (3) If a small miner waiver application is determined to be defective for any reason, the claimant shall have a period of 60 days after receipt of written notification of the defect or defects by the Bureau of Land Management to: (A) cure such defect or defects, or (B) pay the $100 claim maintenance fee due for such period. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10101, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 405; Pub. L. 105-240, Sec. 116, Sept. 25, 1998, 112 Stat. 1570; Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(e) [title I], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-231, 2681-235; Pub. L. 107-63, title I, [(1)], Nov. 5, 2001, 115 Stat. 418.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in subsec. (a), are classified generally to this title. The Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28-28e), referred to in subsecs. (a) and (d)(1)(B), probably means act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, 17 Stat. 91, as amended. That act was incorporated into the Revised Statutes as R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344, which are classified to sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title. For complete classification of R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344 to the Code, see Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION Pub. L. 107-63, which directed the amendment of section 28f of title 30, United States Code, was executed by making the amendment to section 10101 of Pub. L. 103-66, which is classified to this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. See 2001 Amendment note below. Pub. L. 105-277, which directed the amendment of section 28f of title 30, United States Code, was executed by making the amendment to section 10101 of Pub. L. 103-66, which is classified to this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. See 1998 Amendment notes below. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 2001 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107-63 added first sentence and struck out former first sentence which read as follows: "The holder of each unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site, located pursuant to the mining laws of the United States, whether located before or after August 10, 1993, shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before September 1 of each year for years 1999 through 2001, a claim maintenance fee of $100 per claim or site." See Codification note above. 1998 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-277 added first sentence and struck out former first sentence which read as follows: "The holder of each unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site located pursuant to the mining laws of the United States before October 1, 1998 shall pay the Secretary of the Interior, on or before September 1, 1999 a claim maintenance fee of $100 per claim site." See Codification note above. Pub. L. 105-240 substituted "The holder of each unpatented mining claim, mill, or tunnel site located pursuant to the mining laws of the United States before October 1, 1998 shall pay the Secretary of the Interior, on or before September 1, 1999 a claim maintenance fee of $100 per claim site." for "The holder of each unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site located pursuant to the Mining Laws of the United States, whether located before or after August 10, 1993, shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before August 31 of each year, for years 1994 through 1998, a claim maintenance fee of $100 per claim." Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 105-277 added par. (3). See Codification note above. SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 102-381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1378, 1379. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28, 28g, 28i, 28j, 28k of this title. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. Probably should be followed by a period. (!2) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28g 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28g. Location fee -STATUTE- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for every unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site located after August 10, 1993, and before September 30, 2003, pursuant to the Mining Laws of the United States, the locator shall, at the time the location notice is recorded with the Bureau of Land Management, pay to the Secretary of the Interior a location fee, in addition to the claim maintenance fee required by section 28f of this title, of $25.00 per claim. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10102, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 406; Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(e) [title I], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-231, 2681-235; Pub. L. 107-63, title I, [(2)], Nov. 5, 2001, 115 Stat. 419.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Mining Laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -COD- CODIFICATION Pub. L. 107-63, which directed the amendment of section 28f(a) of title 30, United States Code, in section 28g, was executed by making the amendment to section 10102 of Pub. L. 103-66, which is classified to this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. See 2001 Amendment note below. Pub. L. 105-277, which directed the amendment of section 28g of title 30, United States Code, was executed by making the amendment to section 10102 of Pub. L. 103-66, which is classified to this section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. See 1998 Amendment note below. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 2001 - Pub. L. 107-63 substituted "2003" for "2001". See Codification note above. 1998 - Pub. L. 105-277 substituted "2001" for "1998". See Codification note above. SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 102-381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1378, 1379. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28f, 28i, 28j, 28k of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28h 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28h. Co-ownership -STATUTE- The co-ownership provisions of the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28) (!1) shall remain in effect, except that in applying such provisions, the annual claim maintenance fee required under this Act shall, where applicable, replace applicable assessment requirements and expenditures. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10103, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 406.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28), referred to in text, probably means act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, 17 Stat. 91, as amended. That act was incorporated into the Revised Statutes as R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344, which are classified to sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title. For complete classification of R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344 to the Code, see Tables. This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 103-66, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 312, known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. The annual claim maintenance fee required under this Act probably refers to the fee required under section 28f of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -MISC1- SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 102-381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1378, 1379. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28i, 28j, 28k of this title. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28i 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28i. Failure to pay -STATUTE- Failure to pay the claim maintenance fee or the location fee as required by sections 28f to 28k of this title shall conclusively constitute a forfeiture of the unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site by the claimant and the claim shall be deemed null and void by operation of law. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10104, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 406.) -MISC1- SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 102-381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1378, 1379. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28j 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28j. Other requirements -STATUTE- (a) Federal Land Policy and Management Act requirements Nothing in sections 28f to 28k of this title shall change or modify the requirements of section 314(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1744(b)), or the requirements of section 314(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1744(c)) related to filings required by section 314(b), and such requirements shall remain in effect with respect to claims, and mill or tunnel sites for which fees are required to be paid under this section. (b) Omitted (c) Fee adjustments (1) The Secretary of the Interior shall adjust the fees required by sections 28f to 28k of this title to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor every 5 years after August 10, 1993, or more frequently if the Secretary determines an adjustment to be reasonable. (2) The Secretary shall provide claimants notice of any adjustment made under this subsection not later than July 1 of any year in which the adjustment is made. (3) A fee adjustment under this subsection shall begin to apply the first assessment year which begins after adjustment is made. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10105, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 406.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is comprised of section 10105 of Pub. L. 103-66. Subsec. (b) of section 10105 of Pub. L. 103-66 amended section 28 of this title. -MISC1- SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 102-381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1378, 1379. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28i, 28k of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 28k 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 28k. Regulations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the terms and conditions of sections 28f to 28k of this title as soon as practicable after August 10, 1993. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10106, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 407.) -MISC1- SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 102-381, title I, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1378, 1379. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 28i, 28j of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 29 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 29. Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits -STATUTE- A patent for any land claimed and located for valuable deposits may be obtained in the following manner: Any person, association, or corporation authorized to locate a claim under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, having claimed and located a piece of land for such purposes, who has, or have, complied with the terms of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title, and section 661 of title 43, may file in the proper land office an application for a patent, under oath, showing such compliance, together with a plat and field notes of the claim or claims in common, made by or under the direction of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, showing accurately the boundaries of the claim or claims, which shall be distinctly marked by monuments on the ground, and shall post a copy of such plat, together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons that such notice has been duly posted, and shall file a copy of the notice in such land office, and shall thereupon be entitled to a patent for the land, in the manner following: The register of the land office, upon the filing of such application, plat, field notes, notices, and affidavits, shall publish a notice that such application has been made, for the period of sixty days, in a newspaper to be by him designated as published nearest to such claim; and he shall also post such notice in his office for the same period. The claimant at the time of filing this application, or at any time thereafter, within the sixty days of publication, shall file with the register a certificate of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management that $500 worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted in a conspicuous place on the claim during such period of publication. If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the register of the proper land office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of $5 per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43. Where the claimant for a patent is not a resident of or within the land district wherein the vein, lode, ledge, or deposit sought to be patented is located, the application for patent and the affidavits required to be made in this section by the claimant for such patent may be made by his, her, or its authorized agent, where said agent is conversant with the facts sought to be established by said affidavits. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2325; Jan. 22, 1880, ch. 9, Sec. 1, 21 Stat. 61; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144, 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2325 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 6, 17 Stat. 92. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1925 - Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words, in first sentence of text, now reading "United States supervisor of surveys," and words, in next to last sentence of text, now reading "register of the proper land office." Those words formerly read "United States surveyor general" and "register and receiver of the proper land office," respectively. This act abolished the office of surveyor general, and transferred to and consolidated with the Field Surveying Service, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supervisor of Surveys, the administration, equipment, etc., of such office, and consolidated the offices and functions of the register and receiver. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Director of the Bureau of Land Management substituted for United States Supervisor of Surveys wherever appearing. In the establishment of The Bureau of Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, the office of Supervisor of Surveys was abolished and the functions and powers were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be performed by such officers or agencies of the Department as might be designated by the Secretary. Under that authority, the functions and powers formerly exercised by the Supervisor of Surveys were delegated to the Chief Cadastral Engineer, subject to the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. In the general reorganization and realignment of functions of the Bureau, the office of the Chief Cadastral Engineer was abolished, and the functions of that office have been delegated to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. See 43 C.F.R. Sec. 9180.0-3(a)(1). Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. See also Transfer of Functions note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 30 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 30. Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title -STATUTE- Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication, it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim, and all proceedings, except the publication of notice and making and filing of the affidavit thereof, shall be stayed until the controversy shall have been settled or decided by a court of competent jurisdiction, or the adverse claim waived. It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim. After such judgment shall have been rendered, the party entitled to the possession of the claim, or any portion thereof, may, without giving further notice, file a certified copy of the judgment roll with the register of the land office, together with the certificate of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management that the requisite amount of labor has been expended or improvements made thereon, and the description required in other cases, and shall pay to the register $5 per acre for his claim, together with the proper fees, whereupon the whole proceedings and the judgment roll shall be certified by the register to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, and a patent shall issue thereon for the claim, or such portion thereof as the applicant shall appear, from the decision of the court, to rightly possess. If it appears from the decision of the court that several parties are entitled to separate and different portions of the claim, each party may pay for his portion of the claim, with the proper fees, and file the certificate and description by the Director of the Bureau of Land Management whereupon the register shall certify the proceedings and judgment roll to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, as in the preceding case, and patents shall issue to the several parties according to their respective rights. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the alienation of the title conveyed by a patent for a mining claim to any person whatever. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2326; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144, 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2326 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 7, 17 Stat. 93. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1925 - Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words, in third and fourth sentences of text, now reading "United States supervisor of surveys", and words, in third sentence of text, now reading "pay to the register $5 per acre." Such words formerly read "surveyor-general", and "pay to the receiver five dollars per acre", respectively. Such act is treated more fully in notes under section 29 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Director of the Bureau of Land Management substituted for United States Supervisor of Surveys following the words "certificate of the" in sentence beginning "After such judgment" and following the words "description by the" in sentence beginning "If it appears". In the establishment of the Bureau of Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, the office of Supervisor of Surveys was abolished and the functions and powers were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be performed by such officers or agencies of the Department as might be designated by the Secretary. Under that authority, the functions and powers formerly exercised by the Supervisor of Surveys were delegated to the Chief Cadastral Engineer, subject to the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. In the general reorganization and realignment of functions of the Bureau, the office of the Chief Cadastral Engineer was abolished, and the functions of that office have been delegated to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. See 43 C.F.R. Sec. 9180.0-3(a)(1). "Director of the Bureau of Land Management" was substituted for "Commissioner of the General Land Office" following the words "register to the" in sentence beginning "After such judgment" and in sentence beginning "If it appears" following the words "judgment roll to the" on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. Section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, abolished the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and consolidated the functions of the General Land Office with the Grazing Service to form the Bureau of Land Management. Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 31 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim -STATUTE- The adverse claim required by section 30 of this title may be verified by the oath of any duly authorized agent or attorney in fact of the adverse claimant cognizant of the facts stated; and the adverse claimant, if residing or at the time being beyond the limits of the district wherein the claim is situated, may make oath to the adverse claim before the clerk of any court of record of the United States or of the State or Territory where the adverse claimant may then be, or before any notary public of such State or Territory. -SOURCE- (Apr. 26, 1882, ch. 106, Sec. 1, 22 Stat. 49.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 32 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 32. Findings by jury; costs -STATUTE- If, in any action brought pursuant to section 30 of this title, title to the ground in controversy shall not be established by either party, the jury shall so find, and judgment shall be entered according to the verdict. In such case costs shall not be allowed to either party, and the claimant shall not proceed in the land office or be entitled to a patent for the ground in controversy until he shall have perfected his title. -SOURCE- (Mar. 3, 1881, ch. 140, 21 Stat. 505.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 33 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 33. Existing rights -STATUTE- All patents for mining claims upon veins or lodes issued prior to May 10, 1872, shall convey all the rights and privileges conferred by sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 where no adverse rights existed on the 10th day of May, 1872. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2328.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2328 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 9, 17 Stat. 94. Provision of this section respecting prosecution of applications for patents for mining claims in General Land Office, pending May 10, 1872, was omitted from the Code. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 34 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls -STATUTE- The description of vein or lode claims upon surveyed lands shall designate the location of the claims with reference to the lines of the public survey, but need not conform therewith; but where patents have been or shall be issued for claims upon unsurveyed lands, the Director of the Bureau of Land Management in extending the public survey, shall adjust the same to the boundaries of said patented claims so as in no case to interfere with or change the true location of such claims as they are officially established upon the ground. Where patents have issued for mineral lands, those lands only shall be segregated and shall be deemed to be patented which are bounded by the lines actually marked, defined, and established upon the ground by the monuments of the official survey upon which the patent grant is based, and the Director of the Bureau of Land Management in executing subsequent patent surveys, whether upon surveyed or unsurveyed lands, shall be governed accordingly. The said monuments shall at all times constitute the highest authority as to what land is patented, and in case of any conflict between the said monuments of such patented claims and the descriptions of said claims in the patents issued therefor the monuments on the ground shall govern, and erroneous or inconsistent descriptions or calls in the patent descriptions shall give way thereto. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2327; Apr. 28, 1904, ch. 1796, 33 Stat. 545; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2327 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 8, 17 Stat. 94. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1925 - Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words now reading "United States supervisor of surveys" in first and second sentences of text. These words formerly read "the surveyor-general." This act abolished the office of surveyor general, and transferred to and consolidated with the Field Surveying Service, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supervisor of Surveys, the administration, equipment, etc., of such office. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Director of the Bureau of Land Management, substituted for United States Supervisor of Surveys wherever appearing. In the establishment of the Bureau of Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, the office of Supervisor of Surveys was abolished and the functions and powers were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be performed by such officers or agencies of the Department as might be designated by the Secretary. Under that authority, the functions and powers formerly exercised by the Supervisor of Surveys were delegated to the Chief Cadastral Engineer, subject to the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. In the general reorganization and realignment of functions of the Bureau, the office of the Chief Cadastral Engineer was abolished, and the functions of that office have been delegated to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. See 43 C.F.R. Sec. 9180.0-3(a)(1). See also note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 35 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 35. Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land -STATUTE- Claims usually called "placers," including all forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz, or other rock in place, shall be subject to entry and patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims; but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal subdivisions of the public lands. And where placer claims are upon surveyed lands, and conform to legal subdivisions, no further survey or plat shall be required, and all placer-mining claims located after the 10th day of May 1872, shall conform as near as practicable with the United States system of public-land surveys, and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant; but where placer claims cannot be conformed to legal subdivisions, survey and plat shall be made as on unsurveyed lands; and where by the segregation of mineral land in any legal subdivision a quantity of agricultural land less than forty acres remains, such fractional portion of agricultural land may be entered by any party qualified by law, for homestead purposes. -SOURCE- (R.S. Secs. 2329, 2331; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2329 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 12, 16 Stat. 217. R.S. Sec. 2331 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 10, 17 Stat. 94. -MISC1- SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 36 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements -STATUTE- Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associations of persons, having contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer claim, made after the 9th day of July 1870, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys; and nothing in this section contained shall defeat or impair any bona fide homestead claim upon agricultural lands, or authorize the sale of the improvements of any bona fide settler to any purchaser. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2330; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2330 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 12, 16 Stat. 217. -MISC1- SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 37 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 37. Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent -STATUTE- Where the same person, association, or corporation is in possession of a placer claim, and also a vein or lode included within the boundaries thereof, application shall be made for a patent for the placer claim, with the statement that it includes such vein or lode, and in such case a patent shall issue for the placer claim, subject to the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, including such vein or lode, upon the payment of $5 per acre for such vein or lode claim, and twenty-five feet of surface on each side thereof. The remainder of the placer claim, or any placer claim not embracing any vein or lode claim, shall be paid for at the rate of $2.50 per acre, together with all costs of proceedings; and where a vein or lode, such as is described in section 23 of this title, is known to exist within the boundaries of a placer claim, an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer claim is not known, a patent for the placer claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the boundaries thereof. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2333.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2333 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 11, 17 Stat. 94. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 38 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent -STATUTE- Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, in the absence of any adverse claim; but nothing in such sections shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2332.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2332 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 13, 16 Stat. 217. -MISC1- SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 39 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 39. Surveyors of mining claims -STATUTE- The Director of the Bureau of Land Management may appoint in each land district containing mineral lands as many competent surveyors as shall apply for appointment to survey mining claims. The expenses of the survey of vein or lode claims, and the survey and subdivision of placer claims into smaller quantities than one hundred and sixty acres, together with the cost of publication of notices, shall be paid by the applicants, and they shall be at liberty to obtain the same at the most reasonable rates, and they shall also be at liberty to employ any United States deputy surveyor to make the survey. The Director of the Bureau of Land Management shall also have power to establish the maximum charges for surveys and publication of notices under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43; and, in case of excessive charges for publication, he may designate any newspaper published in a land district where mines are situated for the publication of mining notices in such district, and fix the rates to be charged by such paper; and, to the end that the Director may be fully informed on the subject, each applicant shall file with the register a sworn statement of all charges and fees paid by such applicant for publication and surveys, together with all fees and money paid the register of the land office, which statement shall be transmitted, with the other papers in the case, to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2334; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144, 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2334 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 12, 17 Stat. 95. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1925 - Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words in first sentence of text, now reading "The United States supervisor of surveys," and words in third sentence of text, now reading "money paid the register of the Land Office." Such words formerly read "the surveyor-general of the United States," and "and money paid the register and the receiver of the land-office." Such act is treated more fully in note under section 29 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Director of the Bureau of Land Management substituted for United States Supervisor of Surveys in sentence beginning "The Director of the Bureau of Land Management may appoint". In the establishment of the Bureau of Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, the office of Supervisor of Surveys was abolished and the functions and powers were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be performed by such officers or agencies of the Department as might be designated by the Secretary. Under that authority, the functions and powers formerly exercised by the Supervisor of Surveys were delegated to the Chief Cadastral Engineer, subject to the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. In the general reorganization and realignment of functions of the Bureau, the office of the Chief Cadastral Engineer was abolished, and the functions of that office have been delegated to the Director of the Bureau of Land Management. See 43 C.F.R. Sec. 9180.0-3(a)(1). In sentence beginning "The Director of the Bureau of Land Management shall also have power", "Director of the Bureau of Land Management" substituted for "Commissioner of the General Land Office" in two instances and "Director" for "Commissioner" on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. Section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, abolished the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and consolidated the functions of the General Land Office with the Grazing Service to form the Bureau of Land Management. Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. See also note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 40 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 40. Verification of affidavits -STATUTE- All affidavits required to be made under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title, and section 661 of title 43 may be verified before any officer authorized to administer oaths within the land district where the claims may be situated, and all testimony and proofs may be taken before any such officer, and, when duly certified by the officer taking the same, shall have the same force and effect as if taken before the register of the land office. In cases of contest as to the mineral or agricultural character of land, the testimony and proofs may be taken as herein provided on personal notice of at least ten days to the opposing party; or if such party cannot be found, then by publication of at least once a week for thirty days in a newspaper, to be designated by the register of the land office as published nearest to the location of such land; and the register shall require proof that such notice has been given. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2335; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2335 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 13, 17 Stat. 95. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1925 - Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words in first sentence of text, now reading "before the register of the land office." Such words formerly read "before the register and receiver of the land-office." Such act is treated more fully in note under section 29 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See also note set out under section 1 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 41 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 41. Intersecting or crossing veins -STATUTE- Where two or more veins intersect or cross each other, priority of title shall govern, and such prior location shall be entitled to all ore or mineral contained within the space of intersection; but the subsequent location shall have the right-of-way through the space of intersection for the purposes of the convenient working of the mine. And where two or more veins unite, the oldest or prior location shall take the vein below the point of union, including all the space of intersection. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2336.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2336 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 14, 17 Stat. 96. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 42 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment -STATUTE- (a) Vein or lode and mill site owners eligible Where nonmineral land not contiguous to the vein or lode is used or occupied by the proprietor of such vein or lode for mining or milling purposes, such nonadjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes; but no location made on and after May 10, 1872, of such nonadjacent land shall exceed five acres, and payment for the same must be made at the same rate as fixed by sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 for the superficies of the lode. The owner of a quartz mill or reduction works, not owning a mine in connection therewith, may also receive a patent for his mill site, as provided in this section. (b) Placer claim owners eligible Where nonmineral land is needed by the proprietor of a placer claim for mining, milling, processing, beneficiation, or other operations in connection with such claim, and is used or occupied by the proprietor for such purposes, such land may be included in an application for a patent for such claim, and may be patented therewith subject to the same requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to placers. No location made of such nonmineral land shall exceed five acres and payment for the same shall be made at the rate applicable to placer claims which do not include a vein or lode. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2337; Pub. L. 86-390, Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 7.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in subsec. (a), were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2337 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 15, 17 Stat. 96. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1960 - Pub. L. 86-390 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b). -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 43 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 43. Conditions of sale by local legislature -STATUTE- As a condition of sale, in the absence of necessary legislation by Congress, the local legislature of any State or Territory may provide rules for working mines, involving easements, drainage, and other necessary means to their complete development; and those conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2338.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2338 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 262, Sec. 5, 14 Stat. 252. -MISC1- SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 44, 45 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Secs. 44, 45. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 44, R.S. Sec. 2341; act Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097, provided for extension of provisions of Homestead laws to citizens of United States who had prior to 1874 located on lands designated prior to 1866 as mineral lands, and improved them for agricultural purposes, provided no valuable mineral deposits had been discovered thereon. Section 45, R.S. Sec. 2342; act Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097, provided for setting apart the lands as agricultural. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 46 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 46. Additional land districts and officers -STATUTE- The President is authorized to establish additional land districts, and to appoint the necessary officers under existing laws, wherever he may deem the same necessary for the public convenience in executing the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2343.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2343 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 262, Sec. 7, 14 Stat. 252. -TRANS- DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS For delegation to the Secretary of the Interior of authority vested in the President by this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 10250, June 5, 1951, 16 F.R. 5385, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President. -MISC1- SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 47 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property -STATUTE- Nothing contained in sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 shall be construed to impair in any way, rights or interests in mining property acquired under laws in force prior to July 9, 1870; nor to affect the provisions of the act entitled "An act granting to A. Sutro the right-of-way and other privileges to aid in the construction of a draining and exploring tunnel to the Comstock lode, in the State of Nevada", approved July 25, 1866. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2344.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2344 derived from acts July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 17, 16 Stat. 218; May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 16, 17 Stat. 96. -MISC1- SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 48 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands -STATUTE- Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51, and 52 of this title and section 661 of title 43 shall not apply to the mineral lands situated in the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, which are declared free and open to exploration and purchase, according to legal subdivisions, in like manner as before the 10th day of May 1872. And any bona fide entries of such lands within the States named since the 10th day of May 1872 may be patented without reference to such sections of this title. Such lands shall be offered for public sale in the same manner, and at the same minimum price, as other public lands. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2345; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 437.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 47, 51 and 52 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "the preceding provisions of this chapter", meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2344. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2345 derived from act Feb. 18, 1873, ch. 159, 17 Stat. 465. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1920 - The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this section because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by this act. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands -STATUTE- Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, within the States of Missouri and Kansas deposits of coal, iron, lead, or other mineral are excluded from the operation of sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title, and all lands in said States shall be subject to disposal as agricultural lands. -SOURCE- (May 5, 1876, ch. 91, 19 Stat. 52; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 437.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title, referred to in text, were in the original "the act entitled 'An act to promote the development of mining resources of the United States' approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two", meaning act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, 17 Stat. 91, popularly known as the Mining Act of 1872. That act was incorporated into the Revised Statutes as R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344, which are classified to sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title. For complete classification of R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344 to the Code, see Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1920 - The exception clause has been inserted at beginning of this section because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by such act. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49a. Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State -STATUTE- The laws of the United States relating to mining claims, mineral locations, and rights incident thereto are extended to the Territory of Alaska: Provided, That, subject only to the laws enacted by Congress for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States, and to the laws for the protection of fish and game, and subject also to such general rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the preservation of order and the prevention of injury to the fish and game, all land below the line of ordinary high tide on tidal waters and all land below the line of ordinary high-water mark on nontidal water navigable in fact, within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be subject to exploration and mining for gold and other precious metals, and in the Chilkat River, and its tributaries, within two and three-tenths miles of United States survey numbered 991 for all metals, by citizens of the United States, or persons who have legally declared their intentions to become such, under such reasonable rules and regulations as the miners in organized mining districts may have heretofore made or may hereafter make governing the temporary possession thereof for exploration and mining purposes until otherwise provided by law: Provided further, That the rules and regulations established by the miners shall not be in conflict with the mining laws of the United States; and no exclusive permit shall be granted by the Secretary of the Interior authorizing any person or persons, corporation, or company to excavate or mine under any of said waters, and if such exclusive permit has been granted it is revoked and declared null and void. The rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior under this section shall not, however, deprive miners on the beach of the right given to dump tailings into or pump from the sea opposite their claims, except where such dumping would actually obstruct navigation or impair the fish and game, and the reservation of a roadway sixty feet wide under section 687a-2 (!1) of title 43, shall not apply to mineral lands or town sites. No person shall acquire by virtue of this section any title to any land below the line of ordinary high tide or the line of ordinary high-water mark, as the case may be, of the waters described in this section. Any rights or privileges acquired hereunder with respect to mining operations in land, title to which is transferred to a future State upon its admission to the Union and which is situated within its boundaries, shall be terminable by such State, and the said mining operations shall be subject to the laws of such State. -SOURCE- (June 6, 1900, ch. 786, title I, Sec. 26, 31 Stat. 329; May 31, 1938, ch. 297, 52 Stat. 588; Aug. 8, 1947, ch. 514, Sec. 1, 61 Stat. 916; Pub. L. 85-662, Aug. 14, 1958, 72 Stat. 615.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 687a-2 of title 43, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Secs. 703(a), 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2789, 2792. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 381 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1958 - Pub. L. 85-662 substituted "fish and game" for "fisheries" in three places, and inserted provisions permitting mining for all metals in Chilkat River, and its tributaries, within two and three-tenths miles of United States survey numbered 991. 1947 - Act Aug. 8, 1947, permitted exploration for and mining of gold and other precious metals in beds of navigable streams. 1938 - Act May 31, 1938, extended waters subject to exploration and mining for gold to include all water on shores, bays, and inlets of Alaska, and substituted Secretary of the Interior for Secretary of War, among other changes. ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. NON-IMPAIRMENT OF VALID CLAIMS AND RIGHTS Section 2 of act Aug. 8, 1947, provided: "Nothing in this Act [amending this section] shall be deemed to affect or impair any valid claims, rights or privileges, including possessory claims under the first proviso of section 8 of the Act of May 17, 1884 (23 Stat. 26) [25 U.S.C. 280a], arising under any other provision of law." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska -STATUTE- The general mining laws of the United States so far as they are applicable to placer-mining claims, as prior to May 4, 1934, extended to the Territory of Alaska, are declared to be in full force and effect in said Territory: Provided, That nothing herein shall be held to change or affect the rights acquired by locators or owners of placer-mining claims prior to May 4, 1934, located in said Territory under act August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1118). -SOURCE- (May 4, 1934, ch. 211, Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 663.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act August 1, 1912 (37 Stat. 242, 243) and amendatory act March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1118), referred to in text, were repealed by section 1 of act May 4, 1934. See sections 35 to 37 and 49b of this title. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to sections 119 and 381a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -MISC1- EFFECTIVE DATE Section 3 of act May 4, 1934, provided that: "This Act [enacting this section] shall take effect thirty days subsequent to the date of convening of the first regular session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature which is held after the passage of this Act [May 4, 1934]." ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49c 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims -STATUTE- Notices of location of mining claims shall be filed for record within ninety days from the date of the discovery of the claim described in the notice, and all instruments shall be recorded in the recording district in which the property or subject matter affected by the instrument is situated, and where the property or subject matter is not situated in any established recording district the instrument affecting the same shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the division of the court having supervision over the recording division in which such property or subject matter is situated. -SOURCE- (June 6, 1900, ch. 786, title I, Sec. 15, 31 Stat. 327.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is comprised of the proviso of section 15 of act June 6, 1900, which was formerly classified to section 382 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. The remainder of section 15, which was formerly classified to section 119 of Title 48, was omitted from the Code. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49d 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49d. Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized -STATUTE- Miners in any organized mining district may make rules and regulations governing the recording of notices of location of mining claims, water rights, flumes and ditches, mill sites and affidavits of labor, not in conflict with this Act or the general laws of the United States; and nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to prevent the miners in any regularly organized mining district not within any recording district established by the court from electing their own mining recorder to act as such until a recorder therefor is appointed by the court: Provided further, All records regularly made by the United States commissioner prior to June 6, 1900, at Dyea, Skagway, and the recorder at Douglas City, not in conflict with any records regularly made with the United States commissioner at Juneau, are legalized. And all records made in good faith prior to June 6, 1900, in any regularly organized mining district are made public records. -SOURCE- (June 6, 1900, ch. 786, title I, Sec. 16, 31 Stat. 328.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This Act, referred to in text, means act June 6, 1900, ch. 786, 31 Stat. 321, as amended. For complete classification of title I of this act to the Code, see Tables. Title III of this act provided for the Alaska Civil Code. -COD- CODIFICATION Section is comprised of the two provisos of section 16 of act June 6, 1900, and part of the last sentence of that section, which were formerly classified to section 383 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. The remainder of section 16 (excluding the last sentence) which was formerly classified to section 120 of Title 48, was omitted from the Code. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49e 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49e. Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury -STATUTE- During each year and until patent has been issued therefor, at least $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made on, or for the benefit or development of, in accordance with existing law, each mining claim in Alaska heretofore or hereafter located. And the locator or owner of such claim or some other person having knowledge of the facts may also make and file with the said recorder of the district in which the claims shall be situated an affidavit showing the performance of labor or making of improvements to the amount of $100 as aforesaid and specifying the character and extent of such work. Such affidavits shall set forth the following: First, the name or number of the mining claims and where situated; second, the number of days' work done and the character and value of the improvements placed thereon; third, the date of the performance of such labor and of making improvements; fourth, at whose instance the work was done or the improvements made; fifth, the actual amount paid for work and improvement, and by whom paid when the same was not done by the owner. Such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence of the performance of such work or making of such improvements, but if such affidavits be not filed within the time fixed by this section the burden of proof shall be upon the claimant to establish the performance of such annual work and improvements. And upon failure of the locator or owner of any such claim to comply with the provisions of this section, as to performance of work and improvements, such claim shall become forfeited and open to location by others as if no location of the same had ever been made. The affidavits required may be made before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and the provisions of sections 1621 and 1622 of title 18, are extended to such affidavits. Said affidavits shall be filed not later than ninety days after the close of the year in which such work is performed. -SOURCE- (Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2559, Sec. 1, 34 Stat. 1243.) -COD- CODIFICATION "Sections 1621 and 1622 of title 18" substituted in text for "sections fifty-three hundred and ninety-two and fifty-three hundred ninety-three of the Revised Statutes", which had been classified to section 231 and 232 of former Title 18, Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure, on authority of act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 683, the first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Section was formerly classified to section 384 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -MISC1- ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 49f of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 49f 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements -STATUTE- The recorders for the several divisions or districts of Alaska shall collect the sum of $1.50 as a fee for the filing, recording, and indexing annual proofs of work and improvements for each claim so recorded under the provisions of section 49e of this title. -SOURCE- (Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2559, Sec. 2, 34 Stat. 1243.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was formerly classified to section 385 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -MISC1- ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 50 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands -STATUTE- No act passed at the first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, granting lands to States or corporations to aid in the construction of roads or for other purposes, or to extend the time of grants made prior to the 30th day of January 1865 shall be so construed as to embrace mineral lands, which in all cases are reserved exclusively to the United States, unless otherwise specially provided in the act or acts making the grant. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2346.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The first session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, referred to in text, was begun Dec. 7, 1863, and ended July 4, 1864, 13 Stat. 1 to 417, contain legislation passed at such session. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2346 derived from Res. Jan. 30, 1865, No. 10, 13 Stat. 567. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 51 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 51. Water users' vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession -STATUTE- Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right-of-way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2339.) -STATAMEND- REPEALS Provision of this section, "and the right-of-way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage." was repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2339 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 262, Sec. 9, 14 Stat. 253. Section is also set out as the first par. of section 661 of Title 43, Public Lands. -MISC1- SAVINGS PROVISION Repeal by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see note set out under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands. SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 52, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 52 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights -STATUTE- All patents granted, or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by section 51 of this title. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2340; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 Stat. 1097.) -STATAMEND- REPEALS Provision of this section, ", or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights," was repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2340 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 17, 16 Stat. 218. Section is also set out as the second par. of section 661 of Title 43, Public Lands. -MISC1- SAVINGS PROVISION Repeal by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see note set out under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands. SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 53 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title -STATUTE- No possessory action between persons, in any court of the United States, for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land in which such mines lie is in the United States; but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 910.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 910 derived from act Feb. 27, 1865, ch. 64, Sec. 9, 13 Stat. 441. Section was formerly classified to section 690 of Title 28 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 869. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 54 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities -STATUTE- Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act of Congress to the contrary, any person who on and after June 21, 1949 prospects for, mines, or removes by strip or open pit mining methods, any minerals from any land included in a stock raising or other homestead entry or patent, and who had been liable under such an existing Act only for damages caused thereby to the crops or improvements of the entryman or patentee, shall also be liable for any damage that may be caused to the value of the land for grazing by such prospecting for, mining, or removal of minerals. Nothing in this section shall be considered to impair any vested right in existence on June 21, 1949. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1949, ch. 232, Sec. 5, 63 Stat. 215.) -MISC1- SIMILAR PROVISIONS Provisions similar to this section were contained in act June 17, 1949, ch. 221, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 201. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 460mm-1. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE -HEAD- CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE -MISC1- SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL Sec. 71. Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acre. 72. Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation. 73. Presentation of claims. 74. Number of coal land entries; other entries upon noncompliance with conditions. 75. Conflicting claims upon coal lands; rules and regulations. 76. Reservation of rights upon coal lands; sale of certain mining lands. 77. Alabama coal lands; agricultural entry. SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES 81. Rights of entrymen of lands subsequently classified as coal lands; disposal of coal deposits. 82. New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal. 83. Homestead or desert-land and other entries. 84. Applications for entry. 85. Patents for lands, with reservation of coal; disposal of coal deposits. 86. Disposition of lands in Indian reservations with reservation of coal; examination and appraisal of lands. 87. Statements in application; patents. 88. Disposition of coal by United States. 89. Disposition of proceeds. 90. Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts. SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS 101. Omitted. 102. Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner. 103. Patents for oil or gas lands not denied because of transfer before discovery of oil or gas; acreage limitation; nonapplication to withdraw lands. 104. Agreements with applicants for patents as to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund. SUBCHAPTER IV - HOMESTEAD ENTRY OF LANDS IN UTAH, WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS OIL LANDS 111 to 113. Repealed. SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR 121. Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application. 122. Patents; reservation in the United States of reserved deposits; acquisition of right to remove deposits; application for entry to disprove classification. 123. Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to. 124. Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing sodium or sulphur. 125. Patents in North Platte Reclamation Project; mineral rights; subrogation. SUBCHAPTER VI - LOCATION OF PHOSPHATE ROCK LANDS UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS 131. Omitted. SUBCHAPTER VII - PERMITS TO PROSPECT FOR CHLORIDES, SULPHATES, CARBONATES, BORATES, SILICATES, OR NITRATES OF POTASSIUM 141 to 152. Repealed. SUBCHAPTER VIII - BUILDING STONE OR SALINE LAND ENTRIES UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS 161. Entry of building-stone lands; previous law unaffected. 162. Entry of saline lands; limitation. SUBCHAPTER IX - DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS 171. Disposal as agricultural lands. 172. Certain Alabama lands subject to homestead entry. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 71 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 71. Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acre -STATUTE- Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become such, or any association of persons severally qualified as above, shall, upon application to the register of the proper land office, have the right to enter, by legal subdivisions, any quantity of vacant coal lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated or reserved by competent authority, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to such individual person, or three hundred and twenty acres to such association, upon payment to the register of not less than $10 per acre for such lands, where the same shall be situated more than fifteen miles from any completed railroad, and not less than $20 per acre for such lands as shall be within fifteen miles of such road. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2347; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2347 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 1, 17 Stat. 607. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1925 - Act Mar. 3, 1925, affected words which now read "upon payment to the register of not less than." Such words originally read "upon payment to the receiver of not less than." Such act consolidated the offices of receiver and register. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See also note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC2- INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED Commenting on this section and sections 72 to 76 of this title the Department of the Interior says: "While there may be some Indian lands still subject to coal entry by virtue of the provisions of law opening such lands to entry, the coal land laws generally were superseded by the leasing Act of Feb. 25, 1920, 41 Stat. 437 [section 181 et seq. of this title], and it is at least questionable whether the coal land laws should be carried into the Code." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 72, 74, 75, 76, 102 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 72 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 72. Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation -STATUTE- Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as provided in section 71 of this title, who have opened and improved, or shall open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands, and shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a preference right of entry, under section 71 of this title, of the mines so opened and improved: Provided, That when any association of not less than four persons, severally qualified as provided in section 71 of this title, shall have expended not less than $5,000 in working and improving any such mine or mines, such association may enter not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, including such mining improvements. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2348.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2348 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 2, 17 Stat. 607. -MISC1- INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED See note set out under section 71 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 73, 74, 75, 76, 102 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 73 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 73. Presentation of claims -STATUTE- All claims under section 72 of this title must be presented to the register of the proper land district within sixty days after the date of actual possession and the commencement of improvements on the land, by the filing of a declaratory statement therefor; but when the township plat is not on file at the date of such improvement, filing must be made within sixty days from the receipt of such plat at the district office. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2349.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2349 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 3, 17 Stat. 607. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Office of register of district land office abolished and all functions of register transferred to Secretary of the Interior, or to officers and agencies of Department of the Interior as Secretary may designate, by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See also note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED See note set out under section 71 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 74, 75, 76, 102 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 74 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 74. Number of coal land entries; other entries upon noncompliance with conditions -STATUTE- Sections 71 to 73 of this title shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no association of persons any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof; and no member of any association which shall have taken the benefit of such sections shall enter or hold any other lands under their provisions; and all persons claiming under section 72 of this title shall be required to prove their respective rights and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2350.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2350 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 4, 17 Stat. 607. -MISC1- INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED See note set out under section 71 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 75, 76, 102 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 75 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 75. Conflicting claims upon coal lands; rules and regulations -STATUTE- In case of conflicting claims upon coal lands where the improvements shall be commenced, after the third day of March, 1873, priority of possession and improvement, followed by proper filing and continued good faith, shall determine the preference right to purchase. And also where improvements have already been made prior to the third day of March, 1873, division of the land claimed may be made by legal subdivisions, to include, as near as may be, the valuable improvements of the respective parties. The Director of the Bureau of Land Management is authorized to issue all needful rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this section and sections 71 to 74 of this title. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2351; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2351 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 5, 17 Stat. 608. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS "Director of the Bureau of Land Management" substituted in text for "Commissioner of the General Land Office" on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See also note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED See note set out under section 71 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 76, 102 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 76 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 76. Reservation of rights upon coal lands; sale of certain mining lands -STATUTE- Nothing in sections 71 to 75 of this title shall be construed to destroy or impair any rights which may have attached prior to the third day of March, 1873, or to authorize the sale of lands valuable for mines of gold, silver, or copper. -SOURCE- (R.S. Sec. 2352.) -COD- CODIFICATION R.S. Sec. 2352 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, Sec. 6, 17 Stat. 608. -MISC1- INDIAN LANDS EXCEPTED See note set out under section 71 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 102 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 77 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER I - COAL LAND ENTRIES IN GENERAL -HEAD- Sec. 77. Alabama coal lands; agricultural entry -STATUTE- Unreserved public lands containing coal deposits in the State of Alabama which on April 23, 1912, were being withheld from homestead entry under the provisions of section 171 of this title, may be entered under the homestead laws of the United States subject to the provisions, terms, conditions, and limitations prescribed in sections 83 to 85 of this title. -SOURCE- (Apr. 23, 1912, ch. 87, 37 Stat. 90.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The homestead laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to chapter 7 (Sec. 161 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 81 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 81. Rights of entrymen of lands subsequently classified as coal lands; disposal of coal deposits -STATUTE- Any person who has in good faith located, selected, or entered under the nonmineral land laws of the United States any lands which subsequently are classified, claimed, or reported as being valuable for coal, may, if he shall so elect, and upon making satisfactory proof of compliance with the laws under which such lands are claimed, receive a patent therefor, which shall contain a reservation to the United States of all coal in said lands, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. The coal deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of the coal land laws in force at the time of such disposal, but no person shall enter upon said lands to prospect for, or mine and remove coal therefrom, without previous consent of the owner under such patent, except upon such conditions as to security for and payment of all damages to such owner caused thereby as may be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. The owner under such patent shall have the right to mine coal for use on the land for domestic purposes prior to the disposal by the United States of the coal deposit. Nothing herein contained shall be held to affect or abridge the right of any locator, selector, or entryman to a hearing for the purpose of determining the character of the land located, selected, or entered by him. Such locator, selector, or entryman who has made or shall make final proof showing good faith and satisfactory compliance with the law under which his land is claimed shall be entitled to a patent without reservation unless at the time of such final proof and entry it shall be shown that the land is chiefly valuable for coal. -SOURCE- (Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 270, 35 Stat. 844.) -MISC1- PROTECTION OF SANCTITY OF CONTRACTS AND LEASES OF SURFACE PATENT HOLDERS WITH RESPECT TO COALBED METHANE GAS Pub. L. 105-367, Sec. 1, Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3313, provided that: "(a) In General. - Subject to subsection (b), the United States shall recognize as not infringing upon any ownership rights of the United States to coalbed methane any - "(1) contract or lease covering any land that was conveyed by the United States under the Act entitled 'An Act for the protection of surface rights of entrymen', approved March 3, 1909 (30 U.S.C. 81), or the Act entitled 'An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands', approved June 22, 1910 (30 U.S.C. 83 et seq.), that was - "(A) entered into by a person who has title to said land derived under said Acts, and "(B) that conveys rights to explore for, extract, and sell coalbed methane from said land; or "(2) coalbed methane production from the lands described in subsection (a)(1) by a person who has title to said land and who, on or before the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 10, 1998], has filed an application with the State oil and gas regulating agency for a permit to drill an oil and gas well to a completion target located in a coal formation. "(b) Application. - Subsection (a) - "(1) shall apply only to a valid contract or lease described in subsection (a) that is in effect on the date of enactment of this Act; "(2) shall not otherwise change the terms or conditions of, or affect the rights or obligations of any person under such a contract or lease; "(3) shall apply only to land with respect to which the United States is the owner of coal reserved to the United States in a patent issued under the Act of March 3, 1909 (30 U.S.C. 81), or the Act of June 22, 1910 (30 U.S.C. 83 et seq.), the position of the United States as the owner of the coal not having passed to a third party by deed, patent or other conveyance by the United States; "(4) shall not apply to any interest in coal or land conveyed, restored, or transferred by the United States to a federally recognized Indian tribe, including any conveyance, restoration, or transfer made pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act, June 18, 1934 (c. 576, 48 Stat. 984, as amended) [25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.]; the Act of June 28, 1938 (c. 776, 52 Stat. 1209 as implemented by the order of September 14, 1938, 3 Fed. Reg. 1425); and including the area described in section 3 of Public Law 98-290 [25 U.S.C. 668 note]; or any executive order; "(5) shall not be construed to constitute a waiver of any rights of the United States with respect to coalbed methane production that is not subject to subsection (a); and "(6) shall not limit the right of any person who entered into a contract or lease before the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 10, 1998], or enters into a contract or lease on or after the date of enactment of this Act, for coal owned by the United States, to mine and remove the coal and to release coalbed methane without liability to any person referred to in subsection (a)(1)(A) or (a)(2)." Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(e) [title III, Sec. 349], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-231, 2681-300. LANDS IN NORTH PLATTE RECLAMATION PROJECT; MINERAL RIGHTS Patents for lands in North Platte Reclamation Project not to contain reservations of minerals in certain cases, see section 125 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 82, 125, 541c of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 82 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 82. New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed in cases where patents for public lands have been issued to entrymen under the provisions of sections 81 and 83 to 85 of this title, reserving to the United States all coal deposits therein, and lands so patented are subsequently classified as noncoal in character, to issue new or supplemental patents without such reservation. -SOURCE- (Apr. 14, 1914, ch. 55, 38 Stat. 335.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 83 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 83. Homestead or desert-land and other entries -STATUTE- Unreserved public lands of the United States exclusive of Alaska which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands, or are valuable for coal, shall be subject to appropriate entry under the homestead laws by actual settlers only, the desert-land law, to selection under section 641 of title 43, and to withdrawal under the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the Reclamation Act, whenever such entry, selection, or withdrawal shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title, with a reservation to the United States of the coal in such lands and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. But all homestead entries made hereunder shall be subject to the conditions, as to residence and cultivation, of entries under section 218 of title 43. Those who have initiated nonmineral entries, selections, or locations in good faith, prior to June 22, 1910, on lands withdrawn or classified as coal lands may perfect the same under the provisions of the laws under which said entries were made, but shall receive the limited patent provided for in sections 83 to 85 of this title. -SOURCE- (June 22, 1910, ch. 318, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 583; June 16, 1955, ch. 145, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 138.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The homestead laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to chapter 7 (Sec. 161 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. The desert-land law, referred to in text, is classified generally to chapter 9 (Sec. 321 et seq.) of Title 43. The Reclamation Act, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (Sec. 371 et seq.) of Title 43. The withdrawal provision of such Act is classified to section 416 of Title 43. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1955 - Act June 16, 1955, removed 160-acre limitation on desert entry. ADDITIONAL DESERT-LAND ENTRY Section 3 of act June 16, 1955, as amended by Pub. L. 85-641, Sec. 2, Aug. 14, 1958, 72 Stat. 596, provided that: "Any person who, prior to June 16, 1955, made a valid desert-land entry on lands subject to such Act of June 22, 1910 [sections 83 to 85 of this title], or of July 17, 1914 [sections 121 to 123 of this title], may, if otherwise qualified, make one additional entry, as a personal privilege, not assignable, upon one or more tracts of desert land subject to the provisions of such Acts, as hereby amended, and section 7 of the Act entitled 'An Act to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development to stabilize the livestock industry dependent upon the public range, and for other purposes', approved June 28, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 1269, 1272; 43 U.S.C. 315f). The additional land entered by any person pursuant to this section shall not, together with his original entry, exceed three hundred and twenty acres, and all the tracts included within the additional entry authorized by this section shall be sufficiently close to each other to be managed satisfactorily as an economic unit, as determined under rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of the Interior. Additional entries authorized by this section shall be subject to all the requirements of the desert-land law." SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS Section 90 of this title, act Apr. 30, 1912, ch. 99, 37 Stat. 105, supplements this section by making provisions for the selection of coal lands by the several States, and for their sale under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 77, 82, 84, 85, 90, 541c of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 84 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 84. Applications for entry -STATUTE- Any person desiring to make entry under the homestead laws or the desert-land law, any State desiring to make selection under section 641 of title 43, and the Secretary of the Interior in withdrawing under the Reclamation Act lands classified as coal lands, or valuable for coal, with a view of securing or passing title to the same in accordance with the provisions of said Acts, shall state in the application for entry, selection, or notice of withdrawal that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 83 to 85 of this title. -SOURCE- (June 22, 1910, ch. 318, Sec. 2, 36 Stat. 584.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The homestead laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to chapter 7 (Sec. 161 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. The desert-land law, referred to in text, is classified generally to chapter 9 (Sec. 321 et seq.) of Title 43. The Reclamation Act, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (Sec. 371 et seq.) of Title 43. The withdrawal provision of such Act is classified to section 416 of Title 43. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables. -MISC1- SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS See note set out under section 83 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 77, 82, 83, 85, 90, 541c of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 85 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 85. Patents for lands, with reservation of coal; disposal of coal deposits -STATUTE- Upon satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of the laws under which entry is made, and of sections 83 to 85 of this title, the entryman shall be entitled to a patent to the land entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. The coal deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of the coal-land laws in force at the time of such disposal. Any person qualified to acquire coal deposits or the right to mine and remove the coal under the laws of the United States shall have the right, at all times, to enter upon the lands selected, entered, or patented, as provided by sections 83 to 85 of this title, for the purpose of prospecting for coal thereon upon the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of a bond or undertaking to be filed with him as security for the payment of all damages to the crops and improvements on such lands by reason of such prospecting. Any person who has acquired from the United States the coal deposits in any such land, or the right to mine or remove the same, may reenter and occupy so much of the surface thereof as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining and removal of the coal therefrom, and mine and remove the coal, upon payment of the damages caused thereby to the owner thereof, or upon giving a good and sufficient bond or undertaking in an action instituted in any competent court to ascertain and fix said damages. The owner under such limited patent shall have the right to mine coal for use upon the land for domestic purposes at any time prior to the disposal by the United States of the coal deposits. Nothing herein contained shall be held to deny or abridge the right to present and have prompt consideration of applications to locate, enter, or select, under the land laws of the United States, lands which have been classified as coal lands with a view of disproving such classification and securing a patent without reservation. -SOURCE- (June 22, 1910, ch. 318, Sec. 3, 36 Stat. 584.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The land laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to Title 43, Public Lands. -MISC1- SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS See note set out under section 83 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 77, 82, 83, 84, 90, 541c of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 86 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 86. Disposition of lands in Indian reservations with reservation of coal; examination and appraisal of lands -STATUTE- In any Indian reservation opened to settlement and entry pursuant to a classification of the surplus lands therein as mineral and nonmineral, such surplus lands not otherwise reserved or disposed of, which have been or may be withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal deposits, shall be subject to the same disposition as is or may be prescribed by law for the nonmineral lands in such reservation whenever proper application shall be made with a view of obtaining title to such lands, with a reservation to the United States of the coal deposits therein and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. Such surplus lands, prior to any disposition hereunder, shall be examined, separated into classes the same as are the nonmineral lands in such reservations, and appraised, as to their value, exclusive of the coal deposits therein, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for that purpose. -SOURCE- (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 944.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 87, 88, 89 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 87 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 87. Statements in application; patents -STATUTE- Any applicant for lands mentioned in section 86 of this title shall state in his application that the same is made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 86 to 89 of this title, and upon submission of satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of law under which application or entry is made and of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall be entitled to a patent to the lands applied for and entered by him, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal deposits in the lands so patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. -SOURCE- (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, Sec. 2, 39 Stat. 945.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 88, 89 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 88 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 88. Disposition of coal by United States -STATUTE- If the coal-land laws have been or shall be extended over lands applied for, entered, or patented hereunder the coal deposits therein shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of the coal-land laws in force at the time of such disposal. Any person qualified to acquire coal deposits or the right to mine and remove the coal under the laws of the United States shall have the right at all times to enter upon the lands applied for, entered, or patented under sections 86 to 89 of this title, for the purpose of prospecting for coal thereon, if such coal deposits are then subject to disposition, upon the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of a bond or undertaking to be filed with him as security for the payment of all damages to the crops and improvements on such lands by reason of such prospecting. Any person who has acquired from the United States the coal deposits in any such lands, or the right to mine or remove the same, may reenter and occupy so much of the surface thereof as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining and removal of the coal therefrom, and mine and remove the coal, upon payment of the damages caused thereby to the owner thereof, or upon giving a good and sufficient bond or undertaking in an action instituted in any competent court to ascertain and fix said damages. The owner under such limited patent shall have the right to mine coal for personal use upon the land for domestic purposes at any time prior to the disposal by the United States of the coal deposits. Nothing herein contained shall be held to deny or abridge the right to present and have prompt consideration of applications made under the applicable land laws of the United States for any such surplus lands which have been or may be classified as coal lands with a view of disproving such classification and securing a patent without reservation. -SOURCE- (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, Sec. 3, 39 Stat. 945.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 87, 89 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 89 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 89. Disposition of proceeds -STATUTE- The net proceeds derived from the sale and entry of surplus lands in conformity with the provisions of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the same fund under the same conditions and limitations as are or may be prescribed by law for the disposition of the proceeds arising from the disposal of other surplus lands in such Indian reservation. The provisions of sections 86 to 89 of this title shall not apply to the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma. -SOURCE- (Feb. 27, 1917, ch. 133, Sec. 4, 39 Stat. 945.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 87, 88 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 90 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER II - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES -HEAD- Sec. 90. Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts -STATUTE- Unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in sections 83 to 85 of this title be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said sections. -SOURCE- (Apr. 30, 1912, ch. 99, 37 Stat. 105.) -MISC1- SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS Act Apr. 30, 1912, is supplemental to sections 83 to 85 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 101 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 101. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act Feb. 11, 1897, ch. 216, 29 Stat. 526, related to entry of mineral oil lands under placer mining laws. See section 181 et seq. of this title. -MISC1- SAVINGS PROVISION Section 193 of this title contains a savings provision protecting valid claims in existence on Feb. 20, 1920. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 102 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 102. Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner -STATUTE- Where oil lands are located under the provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding five claims in all, where such labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims. -SOURCE- (Feb. 12, 1903, ch. 548, 32 Stat. 825.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original "title thirty-two, chapter six, Revised Statutes of the United States", consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 103 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 103. Patents for oil or gas lands not denied because of transfer before discovery of oil or gas; acreage limitation; nonapplication to withdraw lands -STATUTE- In no case shall patent be denied to or for any lands located or claimed prior to March 2, 1911, under the mining laws of the United States containing petroleum, mineral oil, or gas solely because of any transfer or assignment thereof or of any interest or interests therein by the original locator or locators, or any of them, to any qualified persons or person or corporation, prior to discovery of oil or gas therein, but if such claim is in all other respects valid and regular, patent therefor not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one claim shall issue to the holder or holders thereof, as in other cases. The above provisions shall not apply where such lands were at the time of inception of development on or under such claim withdrawn from mineral entry. -SOURCE- (Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 201, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 1015.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 104 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 104 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER III - PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 104. Agreements with applicants for patents as to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund -STATUTE- Where applications for patents have been or may be offered for any oil or gas land included in an order of withdrawal upon which oil or gas had been discovered, or was being produced prior to March 2, 1911, or upon which drilling operations were in actual progress on October 3, 1910, and oil or gas is thereafter discovered thereon, and where there has been no final determination by the Secretary of the Interior upon such applications for patent, said Secretary, in his discretion, may enter into agreements, under such conditions as he may prescribe with such applicants for patents in possession of such land or any portions thereof, relative to the disposition of the oil or gas produced therefrom or the proceeds thereof, pending final determination of the title thereto by the Secretary of the Interior, or such other disposition of the same as may be authorized by law. Any money which may accrue to the United States under the provisions of sections 103 and 104 of this title from lands within the Naval Petroleum Reserves shall be set aside for the needs of the Navy and deposited in the Treasury to the credit of a fund to be known as the Navy Petroleum Fund, which fund shall be applied to the needs of the Navy as Congress may from time to time direct, by appropriation or otherwise. -SOURCE- (Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 201, Sec. 2, as added Aug. 25, 1914, ch. 287, 38 Stat. 708.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER IV - HOMESTEAD ENTRY OF LANDS IN UTAH, WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS OIL LANDS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER IV - HOMESTEAD ENTRY OF LANDS IN UTAH, WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS OIL LANDS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER IV - HOMESTEAD ENTRY OF LANDS IN UTAH, WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS OIL LANDS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 111 to 113 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER IV - HOMESTEAD ENTRY OF LANDS IN UTAH, WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS OIL LANDS -HEAD- Secs. 111 to 113. Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1028 -MISC1- Section 111, act Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 367, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 496, related to homestead entry of lands in Utah. Section 112, act Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 367, Sec. 2, 37 Stat. 496, related to required information in the application for entry. Section 113, act Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 367, Sec. 3, 37 Stat. 496, related to reservation of oil and gas to the United States in the lands entered. Provisions on entry of lands withdrawn or classified as oil lands are contained in sections 121 to 123 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 121 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 121. Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application -STATUTE- Lands withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, or which are valuable for those deposits, shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or purchase, if otherwise available, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, whenever such location, selection, entry, or purchase shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title with a reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. All applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase under this section shall state that the same are made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 121 to 123 of this title. -SOURCE- (July 17, 1914, ch. 142, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 509; June 16, 1955, ch. 145, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 138.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1955 - Act June 16, 1955, removed 160-acre limitation on desert entry. ADDITIONAL DESERT-LAND ENTRY Increase of limitation with respect to desert entries to 320 acres, see note set out under section 83 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 122, 124, 125 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 122 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 122. Patents; reservation in the United States of reserved deposits; acquisition of right to remove deposits; application for entry to disprove classification -STATUTE- Upon satisfactory proof of full compliance with the provisions of the laws under which the location, selection, entry, or purchase is made, the locator, selector, entryman, or purchaser shall be entitled to a patent to the land located, selected, entered, or purchased, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the lands so patented were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, such deposits to be subject to disposal by the United States only as shall be hereafter expressly directed by law: Provided, however, That all mineral deposits heretofore or hereafter reserved to the United States under sections 121 to 123 of this title which are subject, at the time of application for patent, to valid and subsisting rights acquired by discovery and location under the mining laws of the United States made prior to the date of the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920 [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], shall hereafter be subject to disposal to the holders of those valid and subsisting rights by patent under the mining laws of the United States in force at the time of such disposal. Any person qualified to acquire the reserved deposits may enter upon said lands with a view of prospecting for the same upon the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of a bond or undertaking to be filed with him as security for the payment of all damages to the crops and improvements on such lands by reason of such prospecting, the measure of any such damage to be fixed by agreement of parties or by a court of competent jurisdiction. Any person who has acquired from the United States the title to or the right to mine and remove the reserved deposits, should the United States dispose of the mineral deposits in lands, may reenter and occupy so much of the surface thereof as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining and removal of the minerals therefrom, and mine and remove such minerals, upon payment of damages caused thereby to the owner of the land, or upon giving a good and sufficient bond or undertaking therefor in an action instituted in any competent court to ascertain and fix said damages. Nothing herein contained shall be held to deny or abridge the right to present and have prompt consideration of applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase, under the land laws of the United States, lands which have been withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic mineral lands, with a view of disproving such classification and securing patent without reservation, nor shall persons who have located, selected, entered, or purchased lands subsequently withdrawn, or classified as valuable for said mineral deposits, be debarred from the privilege of showing, at any time before final entry, purchase, or approval of selection or location, that the lands entered, selected, or located are in fact nonmineral in character. -SOURCE- (July 17, 1914, ch. 142, Sec. 2, 38 Stat. 509; July 20, 1956, ch. 652, 70 Stat. 592.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. The Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. The land laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to Title 43, Public Lands. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1956 - Act July 20, 1956, permitted disposal of mineral deposits which are subject, at the time of application for patent, to valid and subsisting rights acquired by discovery and location under the mining laws made prior to Feb. 25, 1920. LANDS IN NORTH PLATTE RECLAMATION PROJECT; MINERAL RIGHTS Patents for lands in North Platte Reclamation Project not to contain reservations of minerals in certain cases, see section 125 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 121, 124, 125 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 123 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 123. Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to -STATUTE- Any person who has, in good faith, located, selected, entered, or purchased, or any person who shall locate, select, enter, or purchase, after July 17, 1914, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, any lands which are subsequently withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, may, upon application therefor, and making satisfactory proof of compliance with the laws under which such lands are claimed, receive a patent therefor, which patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. -SOURCE- (July 17, 1914, ch. 142, Sec. 3, 38 Stat. 510.) -MISC1- NORTH PLATTE RECLAMATION PROJECT; ENTRY PRIOR TO JULY 17, 1914; MINERAL RIGHTS Patents for lands in North Platte Reclamation Project not to contain reservations of minerals in certain cases, see section 125 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 121, 122, 124, 125 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 124 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 124. Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing sodium or sulphur -STATUTE- Lands withdrawn, classified, or reported as valuable for sodium and/or sulphur and subject to prospecting, leasing, or development under the General Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, or Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or purchase if otherwise available in the form and manner and subject to the reservations, provisions, limitations, and conditions of the Act of Congress approved July 17, 1914 (38 Stat. L. 509; U.S.C., title 30, sec. 123); Provided, however, That lands lying within the geologic structure of a field, or withdrawn, classified, or reported as valuable for any of the minerals named herein and/or in any of said sections, or upon which leases or prospecting permits have been applied for or granted, for the production of any of such minerals, shall not be subject to such appropriation, location, selection, entry, or purchase unless it shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior that such disposal will not unreasonably interfere with operations under said sections. -SOURCE- (Mar. 4, 1933, ch. 278, 47 Stat. 1570.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The General Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, probably means the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. The Act of Congress approved July 17, 1914, referred to in text, is act July 17, 1914, ch. 142, 38 Stat. 509, as amended, which is classified to sections 121 to 123 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 125 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 125 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER V - AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 125. Patents in North Platte Reclamation Project; mineral rights; subrogation -STATUTE- Where reclamation homestead entry was made prior to July 17, 1914, pursuant to the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 389, 43 U.S.C. sec. 431), as supplemented, for lands in the Northport Division or the Interstate Division of the North Platte Reclamation Project, and after such entry the lands have been or are hereafter withdrawn, classified, or reported as being valuable for any of the minerals named in sections 81 and 121 to 124 of this title, the patent shall not contain a reservation of such minerals. If any such mineral deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn, classified or reported as being valuable have been leased by the United States, such patent shall be made subject to the rights of the lessee, but the patentee shall be subrogated to the rights of the United States under the lease. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1954, ch. 152, 68 Stat. 56.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (Sec. 371 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER VI - LOCATION OF PHOSPHATE ROCK LANDS UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VI - LOCATION OF PHOSPHATE ROCK LANDS UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER VI - LOCATION OF PHOSPHATE ROCK LANDS UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 131 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VI - LOCATION OF PHOSPHATE ROCK LANDS UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 131. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act Jan. 11, 1915, ch. 9, 38 Stat. 792, provided for perfection under placer mining laws of locations made in good faith prior to Jan. 11, 1915, on public lands containing deposits of phosphate rock. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER VII - PERMITS TO PROSPECT FOR CHLORIDES, SULPHATES, CARBONATES, BORATES, SILICATES, OR NITRATES OF POTASSIUM 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VII - PERMITS TO PROSPECT FOR CHLORIDES, SULPHATES, CARBONATES, BORATES, SILICATES, OR NITRATES OF POTASSIUM -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER VII - PERMITS TO PROSPECT FOR CHLORIDES, SULPHATES, CARBONATES, BORATES, SILICATES, OR NITRATES OF POTASSIUM -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 141 to 152 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VII - PERMITS TO PROSPECT FOR CHLORIDES, SULPHATES, CARBONATES, BORATES, SILICATES, OR NITRATES OF POTASSIUM -HEAD- Secs. 141 to 152. Repealed. Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 1058 -MISC1- Section 141, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 1, 40 Stat. 297, related to permits to prospect. Section 142, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 2, 40 Stat. 298, related to patents to permittees. Section 143, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 3, 40 Stat. 298, related to leases to permittees for campsites. Section 144, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 4, 40 Stat. 299, related to cancellation of permits. Section 145, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 5, 40 Stat. 299, related to restrictions on leasehold interests. Section 146, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Secs. 6, 7, 40 Stat. 299, related to reservations in leases. Section 147, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 8, 40 Stat. 300, related to forfeitures in leases. Section 148, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 9, 40 Stat. 300, related to potassium salts deposits. Section 149, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 10, 40 Stat. 300, related to disposition of royalties and rentals. Section 150, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 11, 40 Stat. 300, related to rules and regulations. Section 151, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 12, 40 Stat. 300, related to regulations for disposition of deposits. Section 152, act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, Sec. 13, 40 Stat. 300, related to provisions in leases for regulation of price and disposition of minerals. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER VIII - BUILDING STONE OR SALINE LAND ENTRIES UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VIII - BUILDING STONE OR SALINE LAND ENTRIES UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER VIII - BUILDING STONE OR SALINE LAND ENTRIES UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 161 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VIII - BUILDING STONE OR SALINE LAND ENTRIES UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 161. Entry of building-stone lands; previous law unaffected -STATUTE- Any person authorized to enter lands under the mining laws of the United States may enter lands that are chiefly valuable for building stone under the provisions of the law in relation to placer mineral claims. Lands reserved for the benefit of the public schools or donated to any States shall not be subject to entry under this section. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to repeal section 471 of title 16 relating to the establishment of national forests. -SOURCE- (Aug. 4, 1892, ch. 375, Secs. 1, 3, 27 Stat. 348.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -COD- CODIFICATION First two sentences of this section are from section 1 and last sentence of this section is from section 3 of act Aug. 4, 1892. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 1907; title 43 section 299. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 162 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER VIII - BUILDING STONE OR SALINE LAND ENTRIES UNDER PLACER-MINING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 162. Entry of saline lands; limitation -STATUTE- All unoccupied public lands of the United States containing salt springs, or deposits of salt in any form, and chiefly valuable therefor, shall be subject to location and purchase under the provisions of the law relating to placer-mining claims. The same person shall not locate or enter more than one claim hereunder. -SOURCE- (Jan. 31, 1901, ch. 186, 31 Stat. 745.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 16 section 1907; title 43 section 299. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER IX - DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER IX - DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER IX - DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 171 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER IX - DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 171. Disposal as agricultural lands -STATUTE- Except as otherwise provided in chapter 3A of this title, all public lands within the State of Alabama, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be subject to disposal only as agricultural lands. All lands which had been reported to the General Land Office prior to March 3, 1883, as containing coal and iron shall first be offered at public sale. -SOURCE- (Mar. 3, 1883, ch. 118, 22 Stat. 487; Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 437.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is from act Mar. 3, 1883, which contained an additional provision relating to pending homesteads, which was omitted because of its temporary nature. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1920 - The exception clause was inserted at beginning of this section because of act Feb. 25, 1920, which provided that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by such act. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS General Land Office abolished and functions transferred to Bureau of Land Management by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, and regulations thereunder. See note set out under section 1 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 77 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 172 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3 - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE SUBCHAPTER IX - DISPOSAL OF ALABAMA LANDS AS AGRICULTURAL LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 172. Certain Alabama lands subject to homestead entry -STATUTE- All lands designated as agricultural in the reclassification of the public lands of Alabama by the Secretary of the Interior under authority of Act March 27, 1906 (chapter 1347, section 1, Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 88), shall be subject to homestead entry as such. -SOURCE- (Mar. 27, 1906, ch. 1347, Sec. 2, 34 Stat. 88.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act March 27, 1906 (chapter 1347, section 1, Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 88), referred to in text, is not classified to the Code. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS -HEAD- CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS -MISC1- SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 181. Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium rights reserved. 182. Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc. 183. Cancellation of prospecting permits. 184. Limitations on leases held, owned or controlled by persons, associations or corporations. (a) Coal leases. (b) Sodium leases or permits, acreage. (c) Phosphate leases, acreage. (d) Oil or gas leases, acreage, Alaska; options, semiannual statements. (e) Association or stockholder interests, conditions; combined interests. (f) Limitations on other sections; combined interests permitted for certain purposes. (g) Forbidden interests acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree; permissible holding period. (h) Cancellation, forfeiture, or disposal of interests for violation; bona fide purchasers and other valid interests; sale by Secretary; record of proceedings. (i) Bona fide purchasers, conditions for obtaining dismissals. (j) Waiver or suspension of rights. (k) Unlawful trusts; forfeiture. (l) Rules and regulations; notice to and consultation with Attorney General; application of antitrust laws; definitions. 184a. Authorization of States to include in agreements for conservation of oil and gas resources lands acquired from United States. 185. Rights-of-way for pipelines through Federal lands. (a) Grant of authority. (b) Definitions. (c) Inter-agency coordination. (d) Width limitations. (e) Temporary permits. (f) Regulatory authority. (g) Pipeline safety. (h) Environmental protection. (i) Disclosure. (j) Technical and financial capability. (k) Public hearings. (l) Reimbursement of costs. (m) Bonding. (n) Duration of grant. (o) Suspension or termination of right-of-way. (p) Joint use of rights-of-way. (q) Statutes. (r) Common carriers. (s) Exports of Alaskan North Slope oil. (t) Existing rights-of-way. (u) Limitations on export. (v) State standards. (w) Reports. (x) Liability. (y) Antitrust laws. 186. Reservation of easements or rights-of-way for working purposes; reservation of right to dispose of surface of lands; determination before offering of lease; easement periods. 187. Assignment or subletting of leases; relinquishment of rights under leases; conditions in leases for protection of diverse interests in operation of mines, wells, etc.; State laws not impaired. 187a. Oil or gas leases; partial assignments. 187b. Oil or gas leases; written relinquishment of rights; release of obligations. 188. Failure to comply with provisions of lease. (a) Forfeiture. (b) Cancellation. (c) Reinstatement. (d) Additional grounds for reinstatement. (e) Conditions for reinstatement. (f) Issuance of noncompetitive oil and gas lease; conditions. (g) Treatment of leases. (h) Statutory provisions applicable to leases. (i) Royalty reductions. (j) Discretion of Secretary. 188a. Surrender of leases. 189. Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation. 190. Oath; requirement; form; blanks. 191. Disposition of moneys received. 191a. Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases. (a) Distribution of late payment charges. (b) Effective date. (c) Prohibition against recoupment. 191b. Collection of unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by lessees. 192. Payment of royalties in oil or gas; sale of such oil or gas. 192a. Cancellation or modification of contracts. 192b. Application to contracts. 192c. Rules and regulations governing issuance of certain leases; disposition of receipts. 193. Disposition of deposits of coal, and so forth. 193a. Preference right of United States to purchase coal for Army and Navy; price for coal; civil actions; jurisdiction. 194. Repealed. 195. Enforcement. (a) Violations. (b) Penalty. (c) Civil actions. (d) Corporations. (e) Remedies, fines, and imprisonment. (f) State civil actions. 196. Cooperative agreements; delegation of authority. SUBCHAPTER II - COAL 201. Leases and exploration. (a) Division into tracts; bidding and award; negotiated sales on exercise of right-of-way permits; leases to public agencies; fair market value of leases; leases in National Forests; comprehensive land-use plans; notice of proposed lease offering. (b) Exploration licenses; term; rights and conditions; violations. 201-1 to 201b. Repealed or Omitted. 202. Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit. 202a. Consolidation of coal leases into logical mining unit. (1) Approval by Secretary; public hearing; definition. (2) Mining plan; requirements. (3) Conditions for approval. (4) Amendment to lease. (5) Leases issued before date of enactment of this Act. (6) Lessee required to form unit. (7) Required acreage. (8) Acreage limitations for coal leases not waived. 203. Additional contiguous or cornering lands allowed lessees; application of production or mining plan requirements and minimum royalty provisions. 204. Repealed. 205. Consolidation of leases. 206. Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease. 207. Conditions of lease. (a) Term of lease; annual rentals; royalties; readjustment of conditions. (b) Diligent development and continued operation; suspension of condition on payment of advance royalties. (c) Operation and reclamation plan. 208. Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit. 208-1. Exploratory program for evaluation of known recoverable coal resources. (a) Authorization; purpose. (b) Seismic, geophysical, geochemical or stratigraphic drilling. (c) Exploratory drilling by party not under contract to United States; confidentiality of information prior to award of lease. (d) Availability to public of all data, information, maps, surveys; confidentiality of information purchased from commercial sources not under contract to United States prior to award of lease. (e) Information or data from Federal departments or agencies; confidentiality of proprietary information or data; utilization of Federal departments and agencies by agreement. (f) Publication of geological and geophysical maps and reports of lands offered for lease. (g) Implementation plan for coal lands exploration program; development and transmittal to Congress; contents. (h) Stratigraphic drilling; scope; statement of results. 208-2, 208a. Repealed. 209. Suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties to promote development or operation; extension of lease on suspension of operations and production. SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES 211. Phosphate deposits. (a) Authorization to lease land; terms and conditions; acreage. (b) Prospecting permits; issuance; term; acreage; entitlement to lease. (c) Extension of term of permit. 212. Surveys; royalties; time payable; annual rentals; term of leases; readjustment on renewals; minimum production; suspension of operation. 213. Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease. 214. Use of surface of other public lands; acreage; forest lands exception. SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS 221 to 222i. Omitted. 223. Leases; amount and survey of land; term of lease; royalties and annual rental. 223a. Repealed. 224. Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease. 225. Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation. 226. Lease of oil and gas lands. (a) Authority of Secretary. (b) Lands within known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field; lands within special tar sand areas; competitive bidding; royalties. (c) Lands subject to leasing under subsection (b); first qualified applicant. (d) Annual rentals. (e) Primary terms. (f) Notice of proposed action; posting of notice; terms and maps. (g) Regulation of surface-disturbing activities; approval of plan of operations; bond or surety; failure to comply with reclamation requirements as barring lease; opportunity to comply with requirements. (h) National Forest System Lands. (i) Termination. (j) Drainage agreements; primary term of lease, extension. (k) Mining claims; suspension of running time of lease. (l) Exchange of leases; conditions. (m) Cooperative or unit plan; authority of Secretary of the Interior to alter or modify; communitization or drilling agreements; term of lease, conditions; Secretary to approve operating, drilling or development contracts, and subsurface storage. (n) Conversion of oil and gas leases and claims on hydrocarbon resources to combined hydrocarbon leases for primary term of 10 years; application. (o) Certain outstanding oil and gas deposits. 226-1. Extension of noncompetitive oil or gas lease issued before September 2, 1960. (a) Lands not withdrawn from leasing. (b) Known and unknown geologic structures of producing fields. (c) Application requirement. (d) Commencement of actual drilling operations. 226-2. Limitations for filing oil and gas contests. 226-3. Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing. (a) Prohibition. (b) Exploration. 226a, 226b. Repealed. 226c. Reduction of royalties under existing leases. 226d to 227. Omitted. 228. Prospecting permits and leases to persons of lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions of; fraud of claimants. 229. Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions. 229a. Water struck while drilling for oil and gas. (a) Acquisition; condition in lease. (b) Prior leases. (c) Disposition. (d) Revolving fund. (e) Operations under lease not restricted. 230 to 233. Repealed. 233a. Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties. 234 to 236. Repealed. 236a. Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws. 236b. Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected. 237. Omitted. SUBCHAPTER V - OIL SHALE 241. Leases of lands. (a) Authorization; survey; terms, royalties and annual rentals; readjustments on renewals; rights of existing claimants; fraud of claimants. (b) Offer for lease; deposits other than oil shale; questioned validity because of location; preference rights. (c) Multiple use principal leases; gilsonite including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons. (c) Offsite leases. (d) Considerations governing issuance of offsite lease. 242. Oil shale claims. (a) Notice. (b) Full patent. (c) Patent. (d) Election. (e) Effect of election. (f) Reclamation. (g) Reaffirmation of requirements. (h) Issuance of patents. SUBCHAPTER VI - ALASKA OIL PROVISO 251. Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants. SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM 261. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage. 262. Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals. 263. Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage. SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR 271. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage. 272. Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees. 273. Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental. 274. Lands containing coal or other minerals. 275. Laws applicable. 276. Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only. SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH 281. Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected. 282. Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty. 283. Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations. 284. Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases. 285. Laws applicable. 286. Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases. 287. Extension of prospecting permits. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in sections 48, 49, 171, 351, 355, 505, 529, 530, 541e, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1256, 1292, 1721, 1721a of this title; title 10 section 7439; title 16 sections 90c-1, 460q-5, 460v-4, 460dd-2, 460ll-3, 460mm-1, 460uu-46, 544l, 3148, 3149, 3183; title 25 sections 398e, 459c, 459d, 640d-10; title 43 sections 299, 315f, 1608, 1633, 1714, 1747. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 181 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 181. Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium rights reserved -STATUTE- Deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, including those in national forests, but excluding lands acquired under the Appalachian Forest Act, approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), and those in incorporated cities, towns, and villages and in national parks and monuments, those acquired under other Acts subsequent to February 25, 1920, and lands within the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves, except as hereinafter provided, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by this chapter to citizens of the United States, or to associations of such citizens, or to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, or in the case of coal, oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities. Citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holding, or stock control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the provisions of this chapter. The term "oil" shall embrace all nongaseous hydrocarbon substances other than those substances leasable as coal, oil shale, or gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons). The term "combined hydrocarbon lease" shall refer to a lease issued in a special tar sand area pursuant to section 226 of this title after November 16, 1981. The term "special tar sand area" means (1) an area designated by the Secretary of the Interior's orders of November 20, 1980 (45 FR 76800-76801) and January 21, 1981 (46 FR 6077-6078) as containing substantial deposits of tar sand. The United States reserves the ownership of and the right to extract helium from all gas produced from lands leased or otherwise granted under the provisions of this chapter, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That in the extraction of helium from gas produced from such lands it shall be so extracted as to cause no substantial delay in the delivery of gas produced from the well to the purchaser thereof. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 437; Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 5, 44 Stat. 1058; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 1, 60 Stat. 950; Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 7(a), Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(1), (4), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Appalachian Forest Act, referred to in the first undesignated paragraph, is act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended, also known as the Weeks Law, which is classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552 and 563 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 552 of Title 16 and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1981 - Pub. L. 97-78, in first par., substituted "gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons)," for "native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)", and added, after first par. three paragraphs which defined "oil", "combined hydrocarbon lease", and "special tar sand area", respectively. 1960 - Pub. L. 86-705 included deposits of native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock. 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, reenacted: existing par., less three provisos, as first sentence of first par., inserting "potassium" after "sodium", which was also included in the 1927 amendment, and substituting provision for disposition of deposits "in incorporated cities, towns, and villages, and in national parks and monuments, those acquired under other Acts subsequent to February 25, 1920, and lands within the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves" for such disposition "in national parks, and in lands withdrawn or reserved for military or naval uses or purposes" and phrase "associations of such citizens" for "any association of such persons"; former third proviso as second sentence of first par.; former first proviso, as second par., inserting reservation of ownership provision and striking out "permitted" before "leased or otherwise granted"; and former second proviso as proviso in second par. 1927 - Act Feb. 7, 1927, included deposits of potassium. SHORT TITLE OF 2000 AMENDMENTS Pub. L. 106-463, Sec. 1, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 2010, provided that: "This Act [amending section 184 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 184 of this title] may be cited as the 'Coal Market Competition Act of 2000'." Pub. L. 106-393, title V, Sec. 501, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1624, provided that: "This title [amending section 191 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 191 of this title] may be cited as the 'Mineral Revenue Payments Clarification Act of 2000'." SHORT TITLE OF 1987 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5101(a), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-256, provided that: "This subtitle [subtitle B (Secs. 5101-5113) of Pub. L. 100-203, enacting sections 195 and 226-3 of this title, amending sections 187a, 187b, 188, 191, and 226 of this title and section 3148 of Title 16, Conservation, and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section and section 226 of this title] may be cited as the 'Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987'." SHORT TITLE OF 1981 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 97-78, Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070, which amended this section and sections 182, 184, 209, 226, 241, 351, and 352 of this title and enacted provisions set out as a note under this section, is popularly known as the "Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Act of 1981". SHORT TITLE OF 1976 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 1(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1083, as amended by Pub. L. 95-554, Sec. 8, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2075, provided that: "This Act [enacting sections 202a, 208-1, and 208-2 of this title, amending sections 184, 191, 201, 203, 207, 209, and 352 of this title, repealing sections 201-1 and 204 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 184, 201, 201-1, 203, and 204 of this title] may be cited as the 'Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976'." SHORT TITLE OF 1960 AMENDMENT Section 1 of Pub. L. 86-705 provided: "That this Act [amending this section and sections 182, 184, 187a, 226, 226-1, 226-2, and 241 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 187a and 226 of this title] may be cited as the 'Mineral Leasing Act Revision of 1960'." SHORT TITLE Act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 44, as added Dec. 22, 1987, Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5113, 101 Stat. 1330-263, provided that: "This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the 'Mineral Leasing Act'." This chapter is also popularly known as the "Mineral Leasing Act of 1920" and the "Mineral Lands Leasing Act". SAVINGS PROVISION Provisions of Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Pub. L. 94-579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, not to be construed as permitting any person to place, or allow to be placed, spent oil shale, etc., on any Federal land other than land leased for the recovery of shale oil under the act of Feb. 25, 1920, section 181 et seq. of this title, see section 701(d) of Pub. L. 94-579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands. Section 15 of act Aug. 8, 1946, provided: "No repeal or amendment made by this Act [enacting sections 187a, 187b, 226c-226e, and 236b, amending this section and sections 184, 188, 193, 209, 225, 226, and 285, and repealing sections 223a, 226a, and 226b of this title] shall affect any right acquired under the law as it existed prior to such repeal or amendment, and such right shall be governed by the law in effect at the time of its acquisition; but any person holding a lease on the effective date of this Act [Aug. 8, 1946] may, by filing a statement to that effect, elect to have his lease governed by the applicable provisions of this Act instead of by the law in effect prior thereto." CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICABILITY OF 1981 AMENDMENTS Section 1(10), (11) of Pub. L. 97-78 provided that: "(10) Nothing in this Act [see Short Title of 1981 Amendment note above] shall affect the taxable status of production from tar sand under the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-223) [see Tables for classification], reduce the depletion allowance for production from tar sand, or otherwise affect the existing tax status applicable to such production. "(11) No provision of this Act [see Short Title of 1981 Amendment note above] shall apply to national parks, national monuments, or other lands where mineral leasing is prohibited by law. The Secretary of the Interior shall apply the provisions of this Act to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and to any other units of the national park system where mineral leasing is permitted, in accordance with any applicable minerals management plan if the Secretary finds that there will be no resulting significant adverse impacts on the administration of such area, or on other contiguous units of the national park system." ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE: SELECTION OF LANDS Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. Selection of lands by Alaska from lands made available by Statehood provisions including lands subject to leases, permits, licenses or contracts issued under this chapter, see section 6(h) of Pub. L. 85-508, set out as note preceding section 21 of Title 48. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; MINERAL LEASES Grant by the Secretary of the Interior of mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1331 et seq., of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 185, 208, 275, 1004, 1272 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 182 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 182. Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc. -STATUTE- The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to all deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas in the lands of the United States, which lands may have been or may be disposed of under laws reserving to the United States such deposits, with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, subject to such conditions as are or may hereafter be provided by such laws reserving such deposits. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 34, 41 Stat. 450; Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 7(a), Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(1), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1981 - Pub. L. 97-78 substituted "gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons)," for "native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)". 1960 - Pub. L. 86-705 included native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 183 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 183. Cancellation of prospecting permits -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior shall reserve and may exercise the authority to cancel any prospecting permit upon failure by the permittee to exercise due diligence in the prosecution of the prospecting work in accordance with the terms and conditions stated in the permit, and shall insert in every such permit issued under the provisions of this chapter appropriate provisions for its cancellation by him. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 26, 41 Stat. 448.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 184 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 184. Limitations on leases held, owned or controlled by persons, associations or corporations -STATUTE- (a) Coal leases No person, association, or corporation, or any subsidiary, affiliate, or persons controlled by or under common control with such person, association, or corporation shall take, hold, own or control at one time, whether acquired directly from the Secretary under this chapter or otherwise, coal leases or permits on an aggregate of more than 75,000 acres in any one State and in no case greater than an aggregate of 150,000 acres in the United States: Provided, That any person, association, or corporation currently holding, owning, or controlling more than an aggregate of 150,000 acres in the United States on the date of enactment of this section shall not be required on account of this section to relinquish said leases or permits: Provided, further, That in no case shall such person, association, or corporation be permitted to take, hold, own, or control any further Federal coal leases or permits until such time as their holdings, ownership, or control of Federal leases or permits has been reduced below an aggregate of 150,000 acres within the United States. (b) Sodium leases or permits, acreage (1) No person, association, or corporation, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, shall take, hold, own, or control at one time, whether acquired directly from the Secretary under this chapter, or otherwise, sodium leases or permits on an aggregate of more than five thousand one hundred and twenty acres in any one State. (2) The Secretary may, in his discretion, where the same is necessary in order to secure the economic mining of sodium compounds leasable under this chapter, permit a person, association, or corporation to take or hold sodium leases or permits on up to 30,720 acres in any one State. (c) Phosphate leases, acreage No person, association, or corporation shall take, hold, own, or control at one time, whether acquired directly from the Secretary under this chapter, or otherwise, phosphate leases or permits on an aggregate of more than twenty thousand four hundred and eighty acres in the United States. (d) Oil or gas leases, acreage, Alaska; options, semi-annual statements (1) No person, association, or corporation, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall take, hold, own or control at one time, whether acquired directly from the Secretary under this chapter, or otherwise, oil or gas leases (including options for such leases or interests therein) on land held under the provisions of this chapter exceeding in the aggregate two hundred forty-six thousand and eighty acres in any one State other than Alaska (!1) Provided, however, That acreage held in special tar sand areas shall not be chargeable against such State limitations. In the case of the State of Alaska, the limit shall be three hundred thousand acres in the northern leasing district and three hundred thousand acres in the southern leasing district, and the boundary between said two districts shall be the left limit of the Tanana River from the border between the United States and Canada to the confluence of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers, and the left limit of the Yukon River from said confluence to its principal southern mouth. (2) No person, association, or corporation shall take, hold, own, or control at one time options to acquire interests in oil or gas leases under the provisions of this chapter which involve, in the aggregate, more than two hundred thousand acres of land in any one State other than Alaska, or, in the case of Alaska, more than two hundred thousand acres in each of its two leasing districts, as hereinbefore described. No option to acquire any interest in such an oil or gas lease shall be enforcible if entered into for a period of more than three years (which three years shall be inclusive of any renewal period if a right to renew is reserved by any party to the option) without the prior approval of the Secretary. In any case in which an option to acquire the optionor's entire interest in the whole or a part of the acreage under a lease is entered into, the acreage to which the option is applicable shall be charged both to the optionor and to the optionee, but the charge to the optionor shall cease when the option is exercised. In any case in which an option to acquire a part of the optionor's interest in the whole or a part of the acreage under a lease is entered into, the acreage to which the option is applicable shall be fully charged to the optionor and a share thereof shall also be charged to the optionee, as his interest may appear, but after the option is exercised said acreage shall be charged to the parties pro rata as their interests may appear. In any case in which an assignment is made of a part of a lessee's interest in the whole or part of the acreage under a lease or an application for a lease, the acreage shall be charged to the parties pro rata as their interests may appear. No option or renewal thereof shall be enforcible until notice thereof has been filed with the Secretary or an officer or employee of the Department of the Interior designated by him to receive the same. Each such notice shall include, in addition to any other matters prescribed by the Secretary, the names and addresses of the parties thereto, the serial number of the lease or application for a lease to which the option is applicable, and a statement of the number of acres covered thereby and of the interests and obligations of the parties thereto and shall be subscribed by all parties to the option or their duly authorized agents. An option which has not been exercised shall remain charged as hereinbefore provided until notice of its relinquishment or surrender has been filed, by either party, with the Secretary or any officer or employee of the Department of the Interior designated by him to receive the same. In addition, each holder of any such option shall file with the Secretary or an officer or employee of the Department of the Interior as aforesaid within ninety days after the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December in each year a statement showing, in addition to any other matters prescribed by the Secretary, his name, the name and address of each grantor of an option held by him, the serial number of every lease or application for a lease to which such an option is applicable, the number of acres covered by each such option, the total acreage in each State to which such options are applicable, and his interest and obligation under each such option. The failure of the holder of an option so to file shall render the option unenforcible (!2) by him. The unenforcibility (!3) of any option under the provisions of this paragraph shall not diminish the number of acres deemed to be held under option by any person, association, or corporation in computing the amount chargeable under the first sentence of this paragraph and shall not relieve any party thereto of any liability to cancellation, forfeiture, forced disposition, or other sanction provided by law. The Secretary may prescribe forms on which the notice and statements required by this paragraph shall be made. (e) Association or stockholder interests, conditions; combined interests (1) No person, association, or corporation shall take, hold, own or control at one time any interest as a member of an association or as a stockholder in a corporation holding a lease, option, or permit under the provisions of this chapter which, together with the area embraced in any direct holding, ownership or control by him of such a lease, option, or permit or any other interest which he may have as a member of other associations or as a stockholder in other corporations holding, owning or controlling such leases, options, or permits for any kind of minerals, exceeds in the aggregate an amount equivalent to the maximum number of acres of the respective kinds of minerals allowed to any one lessee, optionee, or permittee under this chapter, except that no person shall be charged with his pro rata share of any acreage holdings of any association or corporation unless he is the beneficial owner of more than 10 per centum of the stock or other instruments of ownership or control of such association or corporation, and except that within three years after September 2, 1960 no valid option in existence prior to September 2, 1960 held by a corporation or association on September 2, 1960 shall be chargeable to any stockholder of such corporation or to a member of such association so long as said option shall be so held by such corporation or association under the provisions of this chapter. (2) No contract for development and operation of any lands leased under this chapter, whether or not coupled with an interest in such lease, and no lease held, owned, or controlled in common by two or more persons, associations, or corporations shall be deemed to create a separate association under the preceding paragraph of this subsection between or among the contracting parties or those who hold, own or control the lease in common, but the proportionate interest of each such party shall be charged against the total acreage permitted to be held, owned or controlled by such party under this chapter. The total acreage so held, owned, or controlled in common by two or more parties shall not exceed, in the aggregate, an amount equivalent to the maximum number of acres of the respective kinds of minerals allowed to any one lessee, optionee, or permittee under this chapter. (f) Limitations on other sections; combined interests permitted for certain purposes Nothing contained in subsection (e) of this section shall be construed (i) to limit sections 227, 228, 251 of this title or (ii), subject to the approval of the Secretary, to prevent any number of lessees under this chapter from combining their several interests so far as may be necessary for the purpose of constructing and carrying on the business of a refinery or of establishing and constructing, as a common carrier, a pipeline or railroad to be operated and used by them jointly in the transportation of oil from their several wells or from the wells of other lessees under this chapter or in the transportation of coal or (iii) to increase the acreage which may be taken, held, owned, or controlled under this section. (g) Forbidden interests acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree; permissible holding period Any ownership or interest otherwise forbidden in this chapter which may be acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree may be held for two years after its acquisition and no longer. (h) Cancellation, forfeiture, or disposal of interests for violation; bona fide purchasers and other valid interests; sale by Secretary; record of proceedings (1) If any interest in any lease is owned, or controlled, directly or indirectly, by means of stock or otherwise, in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the lease may be canceled, or the interest so owned may be forfeited, or the person so owning or controlling the interest may be compelled to dispose of the interest, in any appropriate proceeding instituted by the Attorney General. Such a proceeding shall be instituted in the United States district court for the district in which the leased property or some part thereof is located or in which the defendant may be found. (2) The right to cancel or forfeit for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall not apply so as to affect adversely the title or interest of a bona fide purchaser of any lease, interest in a lease, option to acquire a lease or an interest therein, or permit which lease, interest, option, or permit was acquired and is held by a qualified person, association, or corporation in conformity with those provisions, even though the holdings of the person, association, or corporation from which the lease, interest, option, or permit was acquired, or of his predecessor in title (including the original lessee of the United States) may have been canceled or forfeited or may be or may have been subject to cancellation or forfeiture for any such violation. If, in any such proceeding, an underlying lease, interest, option, or permit is canceled or forfeited to the Government and there are valid interests therein or valid options to acquire the lease or an interest therein which are not subject to cancellation, forfeiture, or compulsory disposition, the underlying lease, interest, option, or permit shall be sold by the Secretary to the highest responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding under general regulations subject to all outstanding valid interests therein and valid options pertaining thereto. Likewise if, in any such proceeding, less than the whole interest in a lease, interest, option, or permit is canceled or forfeited to the Government, the partial interests so canceled or forfeited shall be sold by the Secretary to the highest responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding under general regulations. If competitive bidding fails to produce a satisfactory offer the Secretary may, in either of these cases, sell the interest in question by such other method as he deems appropriate on terms not less favorable to the Government than those of the best competitive bid received. (3) The commencement and conclusion of every proceeding under this subsection shall be promptly noted on the appropriate public records of the Bureau of Land Management. (i) Bona fide purchasers, conditions for obtaining dismissals Effective September 21, 1959, any person, association, or corporation who is a party to any proceeding with respect to a violation of any provision of this chapter, whether initiated prior to said date or thereafter, shall have the right to be dismissed promptly as such a party upon showing that he holds and acquired as a bona fide purchaser the interest involving him as such a party without violating any provisions of this chapter. No hearing upon any such showing shall be required unless the Secretary presents prima facie evidence indicating a possible violation of this chapter on the part of the alleged bona fide purchaser. (j) Waiver or suspension of rights If during any such proceeding, a party thereto files with the Secretary a waiver of his rights under his lease (including particularly, where applicable, rights to drill and to assign) or if such rights are suspended by the Secretary pending a decision in the proceeding, whether initiated prior to enactment of this chapter or thereafter, payment of rentals and running of time against the term of the lease or leases involved shall be suspended as of the first day of the month following the filing of the waiver or suspension of the rights until the first day of the month following the final decision in the proceeding or the revocation of the waiver or suspension. (k) Unlawful trusts; forfeiture Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, if any lands or deposits subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be subleased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device permanently, temporarily, directly, indirectly, tacitly, or in any manner whatsoever, so that they form a part of or are in any wise controlled by any combination in the form of an unlawful trust, with the consent of the lessee, optionee, or permittee, or form the subject of any contract or conspiracy in restraint of trade in the mining or selling of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), gas, or sodium entered into by the lessee, optionee, or permittee or any agreement or understanding, written, verbal, or otherwise, to which such lessee, optionee, or permittee shall be a party, of which his or its output is to be or become the subject, to control the price or prices thereof or of any holding of such lands by any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or control in excess of the amounts of lands provided in this chapter, the lease, option, or permit shall be forfeited by appropriate court proceedings. (g742l) Rules and regulations; notice to and consultation with Attorney General; application of antitrust laws; definitions (1) At each stage in the formulation and promulgation of rules and regulations concerning coal leasing pursuant to this chapter, and at each stage in the issuance, renewal, and readjustment of coal leases under this chapter, the Secretary of the Interior shall consult with and give due consideration to the views and advice of the Attorney General of the United States. (2) No coal lease may be issued, renewed, or readjusted under this chapter until at least thirty days after the Secretary of the Interior notifies the Attorney General of the proposed issuance, renewal, or readjustment. Such notification shall contain such information as the Attorney General may require in order to advise the Secretary of the Interior as to whether such lease would create or maintain a situation inconsistent with the antitrust laws. If the Attorney General advises the Secretary of the Interior that a lease would create or maintain such a situation, the Secretary of the Interior may not issue such lease, nor may he renew or readjust such lease for a period not to exceed one year, as the case may be, unless he thereafter conducts a public hearing on the record in accordance with subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5 and finds therein that such issuance, renewal, or readjustment is necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, that it is consistent with the public interest, and that there are no reasonable alternatives consistent with this chapter, the antitrust laws, and the public interest. (3) Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to convey to any person, association, corporation, or other business organization immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create defenses to actions, under any antitrust law. (4) As used in this subsection, the term "antitrust law" means - (A) the Act entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", approved July 2, 1890 (15 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as amended; (B) the Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes", approved October 15, 1914 (15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.), as amended; (C) the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.), as amended; (D) sections 73 and 74 of the Act entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes", approved August 27, 1894 (15 U.S.C. 8 and 9), as amended; or (E) the Act of June 19, 1936, chapter 592 (15 U.S.C. 13, 13a, 13b, and 21a). -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 27, 41 Stat. 448; Apr. 30, 1926, ch. 197, 44 Stat. 373; July 3, 1930, ch. 854, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1007; Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 506, 46 Stat. 1524; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 6, 60 Stat. 954; June 1, 1948, ch. 365, 62 Stat. 285; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 6, 62 Stat. 291; Aug. 2, 1954, ch. 650, 68 Stat. 648; Pub. L. 85-122, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 341; Pub. L. 85-698, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 688; Pub. L. 86-294, Sec. 1, Sept. 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 571; Pub. L. 86-391, Sec. 1(c), Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 8; Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 3, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 785; Pub. L. 88-526, Sec. 1, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 710; Pub. L. 88-548, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 754; Pub. L. 94-377, Secs. 11, 15, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090, 1091; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(2), (5), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070; Pub. L. 106-191, Sec. 2, Apr. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 232; Pub. L. 106-463, Sec. 3, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 2011.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 94-377, which was Aug. 4, 1976. The Act entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", approved July 2, 1890, as amended, referred to in subsec. (l)(4)(A), is act July 2, 1890, ch. 647, 26 Stat. 209, as amended, known as the Sherman Act, which is classified to sections 1 to 7 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1 of Title 15 and Tables. The Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes", approved October 15, 1914, as amended, referred to in subsec. (l)(4)(B), is act Oct. 15, 1914, ch. 323, 38 Stat. 730, as amended, known as the Clayton Act, and is classified generally to sections 12, 13, 14 to 19, 20, 21, and 22 to 27 of Title 15, and sections 52 and 53 of Title 29, Labor. For further details and complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 12 of Title 15 and Tables. The Federal Trade Commission Act, referred to in subsec. (l)(4)(C), is act Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, 38 Stat. 717, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter I (Sec. 41 et seq.) of chapter 2 of Title 15. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 58 of Title 15 and Tables. Act of June 19, 1936, chapter 592, referred to in subsec. (l)(4)(E), is act June 19, 1936, ch. 592, 49 Stat. 1526, known as the Robinson-Patman Antidiscrimination Act and also as the Robinson-Patman Price Discrimination Act, which enacted sections 13a, 13b, and 21a of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, and amended section 13 of Title 15. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 13 of Title 15 and Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION In subsec. (l)(2), "subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5" substituted for "the Administrative Procedure Act" on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 2000 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-463 inserted heading, struck out "(1)" before "No person", substituted "75,000 acres" for "forty-six thousand and eighty acres", and substituted "150,000 acres" for "one hundred thousand acres" wherever appearing. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 106-191 substituted "30,720 acres" for "fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty acres". 1981 - Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(5), inserted proviso that acreage held in special tar sand areas not be chargeable against State limitations. Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(2), substituted "gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons)" for "native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, bituminous rock". 1976 - Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 11(a), inserted "or any subsidiary, affiliate, or persons controlled by or under common control with such person, association, or corporation" before "shall take, hold, own or control", "and in no case greater than an aggregate of one hundred thousand acres in the United States" after "in any one State," proviso relating to non-relinquishment of leases or permits by an entity owning or controlling more than an aggregate of one hundred thousand acres, and proviso prohibiting ownership or control of further Federal leases or permits until reduction to below an aggregate of one hundred thousand acres. Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 11(b), struck out par. (2) providing for application, hearing and granting of additional acreage, not to exceed 5120 acres in any one State, to a person, association or corporation requiring such extra acreage to carry on business economically, and the subsequent reevaluation of such entity's continuing need for such extra acreage. Subsec. (l). Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 15, added subsec. (l). 1964 - Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 88-526 struck out ", except as otherwise provided in this subsection," after "corporation" and increased aggregate number of acres from 10,240 to 46,080 acres. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 88-548 increased aggregate number of acres from 10,240 to 20,480 acres. 1960 - Pub. L. 86-705 generally revised provisions and divided them into subsecs. (a) to (k). Other changes concerned: maximum acreage in Alaska, unreported options, their unenforceability, form for notice of options, party to give notice, inclusion of options in acreage determinations, charge of association or corporate holdings against principal stockholders, hearings requirement based upon prima facie evidence of violations, running of time against a lease and the payment of rentals during a waiver or suspension of a lessee's rights. Pub. L. 86-391 authorized issuance of phosphate permits. 1959 - Pub. L. 86-294 inserted provision that the right of cancellation or forfeiture for violations shall not apply so as to affect adversely the interest of a bona fide purchaser in a lease acquired in conformity with acreage limitations; that bona fide purchasers in such situations have the right to be dismissed as parties from proceedings; and that if a party to proceedings files waiver of rights to drill or assigns his interests, or if such rights are suspended pending decision, he shall, if he is not in violation of provisions, have the right to have his interest extended for a period of time equal to the period between filing of waiver or order of suspension and final decision, without payment of rental. 1958 - Pub. L. 85-698 increased limitation on acreage which may be taken or held under coal leases or permits in any one State from 5,120 to 10,240 acres, permitted applications for additional coal leases or permits not exceeding 5,120 additional acres in the State, provided for hearings on such applications, authorized reevaluation and cancellation of leases and permits for additional acreage, and prohibited assignment, transfer, or sale of any of the additional acreage without the Secretary's approval. 1957 - Pub. L. 85-122 struck out "or permits exceeding in the aggregate five thousand one hundred and twenty acres in any one State, and" after "phosphate leases" in second sentence. 1954 - Act Aug. 2, 1954, increased acreage that any one person can hold in the aggregate from fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty acres to forty-six thousand and eighty acres, increased number of acres that can be held under option from one hundred thousand acres to two hundred thousand acres, and extended terms of the option from 2 to 3 years. 1948 - Act June 1, 1948, substituted in second proviso "within two years after the passage of this Act" for "on or before August 8, 1950" in order to allow options to be exercised up to that time. Act June 3, 1948, increased aggregate acreage allowed one person, etc., from two thousand five hundred and sixty acres to five thousand one hundred and twenty acres of coal or sodium leases, and increased the aggregate acreage allowed one person, etc., from seven thousand six hundred and eighty acres to fifteen thousand three hundred and sixty acres of oil or gas leases. 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, principally doubled amount of land that may be leased by any person or corporation in any one State and abolished former acreage limitation of 2,560 acres on one structure; excluded operating contracts and leases held in common from definition of "association"; inserted provisions relating to options; and omitted provisions relating to cooperative or unit plans and operating, drilling or development contracts. 1931 - Act Mar. 4, 1931, amended section generally. 1930 - Act July 3, 1930, amended section generally. 1926 - Act Apr. 30, 1926, amended section generally. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1959 AMENDMENT Section 2 of Pub. L. 86-294 provided that: "The rights granted by the second and third sentences of the amendment contained within section 1 of this Act [amending this section to provide that holder of interest in lease has right to be dismissed from cancellation or forfeiture proceedings upon showing he acquired his interest as bona fide purchaser and without violation of provisions, and to provide right to have his lease extended if rights thereunder to drill and to assign are suspended or waived during such proceedings and it is determined he is not in violation of provisions] shall apply with respect to any proceeding now pending or initiated after the date of enactment of this Act [Sept. 21, 1959]." SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. Section 11(b) of Pub. L. 94-377 provided in part that repeal by such section of subsec. (a)(2) of this section is subject to valid existing rights. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior, referred to in subsec. (l), to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to the fostering of competition for Federal leases, the implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for the award of Federal leases, the establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, the setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and the specifying of the procedures, terms, and conditions for the acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. -MISC2- FINDINGS Pub. L. 106-463, Sec. 2, Nov. 7, 2000, 114 Stat. 2010, provided that: "Congress finds that - "(1) Federal land contains commercial deposits of coal, the Nation's largest deposits of coal being located on Federal land in Utah, Colorado, Montana, and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming; "(2) coal is mined on Federal land through Federal coal leases under the Act of February 25, 1920 (commonly known as the 'Mineral Leasing Act') (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.); "(3) the sub-bituminous coal from these mines is low in sulfur, making it the cleanest burning coal for energy production; "(4) the Mineral Leasing Act sets for each leasable mineral a limitation on the amount of acreage of Federal leases any 1 producer may hold in any 1 State or nationally; "(5)(A) the present acreage limitation for Federal coal leases has been in place since 1976; "(B) currently the coal lease acreage limit of 46,080 acres per State is less than the per-State Federal lease acreage limit for potash (96,000 acres) and oil and gas (246,080 acres); "(6) coal producers in Wyoming and Utah are operating mines on Federal leaseholds that contain total acreage close to the coal lease acreage ceiling; "(7) the same reasons that Congress cited in enacting increases for State lease acreage caps applicable in the case of other minerals - the advent of modern mine technology, changes in industry economics, greater global competition, and the need to conserve Federal resources - apply to coal; "(8) existing coal mines require additional lease acreage to avoid premature closure, but those mines cannot relinquish mined-out areas to lease new acreage because those areas are subject to 10-year reclamation plans, and the reclaimed acreage is counted against the State and national acreage limits; "(9) to enable them to make long-term business decisions affecting the type and amount of additional infrastructure investments, coal producers need certainty that sufficient acreage of leasable coal will be available for mining in the future; and "(10) to maintain the vitality of the domestic coal industry and ensure the continued flow of valuable revenues to the Federal and State governments and of energy to the American public from coal production on Federal land, the Mineral Leasing Act should be amended to increase the acreage limitation for Federal coal leases." Pub. L. 106-191, Sec. 1, Apr. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 231, provided that: "The Congress finds and declares that - "(1) The Federal lands contain commercial deposits of trona, with the world's largest body of this mineral located on such lands in southwestern Wyoming. "(2) Trona is mined on Federal lands through Federal sodium leases issued under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.]. "(3) The primary product of trona mining is soda ash (sodium carbonate), a basic industrial chemical that is used for glass making and a variety of consumer products, including baking soda, detergents, and pharmaceuticals. "(4) The Mineral Leasing Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.] sets for each leasable mineral limitations on the amount of acreage of Federal leases any one producer may hold in any one State or nationally. "(5) The present acreage limitation for Federal sodium (trona) leases has been in place for over five decades, since 1948, and is the oldest acreage limitation in the Mineral Leasing Act. Over this time frame Congress and/or the BLM has revised acreage limits for other minerals to meet the needs of the respective industries. Currently, the sodium lease acreage limitation of 15,360 acres per State is approximately one-third of the per State Federal lease acreage cap for coal (46,080 acres) and potassium (51,200 acres) and one-sixteenth that of oil and gas (246,080 acres). "(6) Three of the four trona producers in Wyoming are operating mines on Federal leaseholds that contain total acreage close to the sodium lease acreage ceiling. "(7) The same reasons that Congress cited in enacting increases in other minerals' per State lease acreage caps apply to trona: the advent of modern mine technology, changes in industry economics, greater global competition, and need to conserve the Federal resource. "(8) Existing trona mines require additional lease acreage to avoid premature closure, and are unable to relinquish mined-out areas to lease new acreage because those areas continue to be used for mine access, ventilation, and tailings disposal and may provide future opportunities for secondary recovery by solution mining. "(9) Existing trona producers are having to make long term business decisions affecting the type and amount of additional infrastructure investments based on the certainty that sufficient acreage of leaseable [sic] trona will be available for mining in the future. "(10) To maintain the vitality of the domestic trona industry and ensure the continued flow of valuable revenues to the Federal and State governments and products to the American public from trona production on Federal lands, the Mineral Leasing Act should be amended to increase the acreage limitation for Federal sodium leases." ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 202a, 236a, 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. Probably should be followed by a colon. (!2) So in original. Probably should be "unenforceable". (!3) So in original. Probably should be "unenforceability". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 184a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 184a. Authorization of States to include in agreements for conservation of oil and gas resources lands acquired from United States -STATUTE- Notwithstanding the provisions of any applicable grant, deed, patent, exchange, or law of the United States, any State owning lands or interests therein acquired by it from the United States may consent to the operation or development of such lands or interests, or any part thereof, under agreements approved by the Secretary of the Interior made jointly or severally with lessees or permittees of lands or mineral deposits of the United States or others, for the purpose of more properly conserving the oil and gas resources within such State. Such agreements may provide for the cooperative or unit operation or development of part or all of any oil or gas pool, field, or area; for the allocation of production and the sharing of proceeds from the whole or any specified part thereof regardless of the particular tract from which production is obtained or proceeds are derived; and, with the consent of the State, for the modification of the terms and provisions of State leases for lands operated and developed thereunder, including the term of years for which said leases were originally granted, to conform said leases to the terms and provisions of such agreements: Provided, That nothing in this section contained, nor the effectuation of it, shall be construed as in any respect waiving, determining or affecting any right, title, or interest, which otherwise may exist in the United States, and that the making of any agreement, as provided in this section, shall not be construed as an admission as to the title or ownership of the lands included. -SOURCE- (Jan. 26, 1940, ch. 14, 54 Stat. 17.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 185 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 185. Rights-of-way for pipelines through Federal lands -STATUTE- (a) Grant of authority Rights-of-way through any Federal lands may be granted by the Secretary of the Interior or appropriate agency head for pipeline purposes for the transportation of oil, natural gas, synthetic liquid or gaseous fuels, or any refined product produced therefrom to any applicant possessing the qualifications provided in section 181 of this title in accordance with the provisions of this section. (b) Definitions (1) For the purposes of this section "Federal lands" means all lands owned by the United States except lands in the National Park System, lands held in trust for an Indian or Indian tribe, and lands on the Outer Continental Shelf. A right-of-way through a Federal reservation shall not be granted if the Secretary or agency head determines that it would be inconsistent with the purposes of the reservation. (2) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. (3) "Agency head" means the head of any Federal department or independent Federal office or agency, other than the Secretary of the Interior, which has jurisdiction over Federal lands. (c) Inter-agency coordination (1) Where the surface of all of the Federal lands involved in a proposed right-of-way or permit is under the jurisdiction of one Federal agency, the agency head, rather than the Secretary, is authorized to grant or renew the right-of-way or permit for the purposes set forth in this section. (2) Where the surface of the Federal lands involved is administered by the Secretary or by two or more Federal agencies, the Secretary is authorized, after consultation with the agencies involved, to grant or renew rights-of-way or permits through the Federal lands involved. The Secretary may enter into interagency agreements with all other Federal agencies having jurisdiction over Federal lands for the purpose of avoiding duplication, assigning responsibility, expediting review of rights-of-way or permit applications, issuing joint regulations, and assuring a decision based upon a comprehensive review of all factors involved in any right-of-way or permit application. Each agency head shall administer and enforce the provisions of this section, appropriate regulations, and the terms and conditions of rights-of-way or permits insofar as they involve Federal lands under the agency head's jurisdiction. (d) Width limitations The width of a right-of-way shall not exceed fifty feet plus the ground occupied by the pipeline (that is, the pipe and its related facilities) unless the Secretary or agency head finds, and records the reasons for his finding, that in his judgment a wider right-of-way is necessary for operation and maintenance after construction, or to protect the environment or public safety. Related facilities include but are not limited to valves, pump stations, supporting structures, bridges, monitoring and communication devices, surge and storage tanks, terminals, roads, airstrips and campsites and they need not necessarily be connected or contiguous to the pipe and may be the subjects of separate rights-of-way. (e) Temporary permits A right-of-way may be supplemented by such temporary permits for the use of Federal lands in the vicinity of the pipeline as the Secretary or agency head finds are necessary in connection with construction, operation, maintenance, or termination of the pipeline, or to protect the natural environment or public safety. (f) Regulatory authority Rights-of-way or permits granted or renewed pursuant to this section shall be subject to regulations promulgated in accord with the provisions of this section and shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary or agency head may prescribe regarding extent, duration, survey, location, construction, operation, maintenance, use, and termination. (g) Pipeline safety The Secretary or agency head shall impose requirements for the operation of the pipeline and related facilities in a manner that will protect the safety of workers and protect the public from sudden ruptures and slow degradation of the pipeline. (h) Environmental protection (1) Nothing in this section shall be construed to amend, repeal, modify, or change in any way the requirements of section 102(2)(C) [42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)] or any other provision of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.]. (2) The Secretary or agency head, prior to granting a right-of-way or permit pursuant to this section for a new project which may have a significant impact on the environment, shall require the applicant to submit a plan of construction, operation, and rehabilitation for such right-of-way or permit which shall comply with this section. The Secretary or agency head shall issue regulations or impose stipulations which shall include, but shall not be limited to: (A) requirements for restoration, revegetation, and curtailment of erosion of the surface of the land; (B) requirements to insure that activities in connection with the right-of-way or permit will not violate applicable air and water quality standards nor related facility siting standards established by or pursuant to law; (C) requirements designed to control or prevent (i) damage to the environment (including damage to fish and wildlife habitat), (ii) damage to public or private property, and (iii) hazards to public health and safety; and (D) requirements to protect the interests of individuals living in the general area of the right-of-way or permit who rely on the fish, wildlife, and biotic resources of the area for subsistence purposes. Such regulations shall be applicable to every right-of-way or permit granted pursuant to this section, and may be made applicable by the Secretary or agency head to existing rights-of-way or permits, or rights-of-way or permits to be renewed pursuant to this section. (i) Disclosure If the applicant is a partnership, corporation, association, or other business entity, the Secretary or agency head shall require the applicant to disclose the identity of the participants in the entity. Such disclosure shall include where applicable (1) the name and address of each partner, (2) the name and address of each shareholder owning 3 per centum or more of the shares, together with the number and percentage of any class of voting shares of the entity which such shareholder is authorized to vote, and (3) the name and address of each affiliate of the entity together with, in the case of an affiliate controlled by the entity, the number of shares and the percentage of any class of voting stock of that affiliate owned, directly or indirectly, by that entity, and, in the case of an affiliate which controls that entity, the number of shares and the percentage of any class of voting stock of that entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the affiliate. (j) Technical and financial capability The Secretary or agency head shall grant or renew a right-of-way or permit under this section only when he is satisfied that the applicant has the technical and financial capability to construct, operate, maintain, and terminate the project for which the right-of-way or permit is requested in accordance with the requirements of this section. (k) Public hearings The Secretary or agency head by regulation shall establish procedures, including public hearings where appropriate, to give Federal, State, and local government agencies and the public adequate notice and an opportunity to comment upon right-of-way applications filed after the date of enactment of this subsection. (g742l) Reimbursement of costs The applicant for a right-of-way or permit shall reimburse the United States for administrative and other costs incurred in processing the application, and the holder of a right-of-way or permit shall reimburse the United States for the costs incurred in monitoring the construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of any pipeline and related facilities on such right-of-way or permit area and shall pay annually in advance the fair market rental value of the right-of-way or permit, as determined by the Secretary or agency head. (m) Bonding Where he deems it appropriate the Secretary or agency head may require a holder of a right-of-way or permit to furnish a bond, or other security, satisfactory to the Secretary or agency head to secure all or any of the obligations imposed by the terms and conditions of the right-of-way or permit or by any rule or regulation of the Secretary or agency head. (n) Duration of grant Each right-of-way or permit granted or renewed pursuant to this section shall be limited to a reasonable term in light of all circumstances concerning the project, but in no event more than thirty years. In determining the duration of a right-of-way the Secretary or agency head shall, among other things, take into consideration the cost of the facility, its useful life, and any public purpose it serves. The Secretary or agency head shall renew any right-of-way, in accordance with the provisions of this section, so long as the project is in commercial operation and is operated and maintained in accordance with all of the provisions of this section. (g742o) Suspension or termination of right-of-way (1) Abandonment of a right-of-way or noncompliance with any provision of this section may be grounds for suspension or termination of the right-of-way if (A) after due notice to the holder of the right-of-way, (B) a reasonable opportunity to comply with this section, and (C) an appropriate administrative proceeding pursuant to section 554 of title 5, the Secretary or agency head determines that any such ground exists and that suspension or termination is justified. No administrative proceeding shall be required where the right-of-way by its terms provides that it terminates on the occurrence of a fixed or agreed upon condition, event, or time. (2) If the Secretary or agency head determines that an immediate temporary suspension of activities within a right-of-way or permit area is necessary to protect public health or safety or the environment, he may abate such activities prior to an administrative proceeding. (3) Deliberate failure of the holder to use the right-of-way for the purpose for which it was granted or renewed for any continuous two-year period shall constitute a rebuttable presumption of abandonment of the right-of-way: Provided, That where the failure to use the right-of-way is due to circumstances not within the holder's control the Secretary or agency head is not required to commence proceedings to suspend or terminate the right-of-way. (p) Joint use of rights-of-way In order to minimize adverse environmental impacts and the proliferation of separate rights-of-way across Federal lands, the utilization of rights-of-way in common shall be required to the extent practical, and each right-of-way or permit shall reserve to the Secretary or agency head the right to grant additional rights-of-way or permits for compatible uses on or adjacent to rights-of-way or permit area granted pursuant to this section. (q) Statutes No rights-of-way for the purposes provided for in this section shall be granted or renewed across Federal lands except under and subject to the provisions, limitations, and conditions of this section. Any application for a right-of-way filed under any other law prior to the effective date of this provision may, at the applicant's option, be considered as an application under this section. The Secretary or agency head may require the applicant to submit any additional information he deems necessary to comply with the requirements of this section. (r) Common carriers (1) Pipelines and related facilities authorized under this section shall be constructed, operated, and maintained as common carriers. (2)(A) The owners or operators of pipelines subject to this section shall accept, convey, transport, or purchase without discrimination all oil or gas delivered to the pipeline without regard to whether such oil or gas was produced on Federal or non-Federal lands. (B) In the case of oil or gas produced from Federal lands or from the resources on the Federal lands in the vicinity of the pipeline, the Secretary may, after a full hearing with due notice thereof to the interested parties and a proper finding of facts, determine the proportionate amounts to be accepted, conveyed, transported or purchased. (3)(A) The common carrier provisions of this section shall not apply to any natural gas pipeline operated by any person subject to regulation under the Natural Gas Act [15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.] or by any public utility subject to regulation by a State or municipal regulatory agency having jurisdiction to regulate the rates and charges for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or municipality. (B) Where natural gas not subject to State regulatory or conservation laws governing its purchase by pipelines is offered for sale, each such pipeline shall purchase, without discrimination, any such natural gas produced in the vicinity of the pipeline. (4) The Government shall in express terms reserve and shall provide in every lease of oil lands under this chapter that the lessee, assignee, or beneficiary, if owner or operator of a controlling interest in any pipeline or of any company operating the pipeline which may be operated accessible to the oil derived from lands under such lease, shall at reasonable rates and without discrimination accept and convey the oil of the Government or of any citizen or company not the owner of any pipeline operating a lease or purchasing gas or oil under the provisions of this chapter. (5) Whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that any owner or operator subject to this section is not operating any oil or gas pipeline in complete accord with its obligations as a common carrier hereunder, he may request the Attorney General to prosecute an appropriate proceeding before the Secretary of Energy or Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or any appropriate State agency or the United States district court for the district in which the pipeline or any part thereof is located, to enforce such obligation or to impose any penalty provided therefor, or the Secretary may, by proceeding as provided in this section, suspend or terminate the said grant of right-of-way for noncompliance with the provisions of this section. (6) The Secretary or agency head shall require, prior to granting or renewing a right-of-way, that the applicant submit and disclose all plans, contracts, agreements, or other information or material which he deems necessary to determine whether a right-of-way shall be granted or renewed and the terms and conditions which should be included in the right-of-way. Such information may include, but is not limited to: (A) conditions for, and agreements among owners or operators, regarding the addition of pumping facilities, looping, or otherwise increasing the pipeline or terminal's throughput capacity in response to actual or anticipated increases in demand; (B) conditions for adding or abandoning intake, offtake, or storage points or facilities; and (C) minimum shipment or purchase tenders. (s) Exports of Alaskan North Slope oil (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) through (6) of this subsection and notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other provision of law (including any regulation) applicable to the export of oil transported by pipeline over right-of-way granted pursuant to section 1652 of title 43, such oil may be exported unless the President finds that exportation of this oil is not in the national interest. The President shall make his national interest determination within five months of November 28, 1995. In evaluating whether exports of this oil are in the national interest, the President shall at a minimum consider - (A) whether exports of this oil would diminish the total quantity or quality of petroleum available to the United States; (B) the results of an appropriate environmental review, including consideration of appropriate measures to mitigate any potential adverse effects of exports of this oil on the environment, which shall be completed within four months of November 28, 1995; and (C) whether exports of this oil are likely to cause sustained material oil supply shortages or sustained oil prices significantly above world market levels that would cause sustained material adverse employment effects in the United States or that would cause substantial harm to consumers, including noncontiguous States and Pacific territories. If the President determines that exports of this oil are in the national interest, he may impose such terms and conditions (other than a volume limitation) as are necessary or appropriate to ensure that such exports are consistent with the national interest. (2) Except in the case of oil exported to a country with which the United States entered into a bilateral international oil supply agreement before November 26, 1979, or to a country pursuant to the International Emergency Oil Sharing Plan of the International Energy Agency, any oil transported by pipeline over right-of-way granted pursuant to section 1652 of title 43 shall, when exported, be transported by a vessel documented under the laws of the United States and owned by a citizen of the United States (as determined in accordance with sections 802 and 803 of title 46, Appendix). (3) Nothing in this subsection shall restrict the authority of the President under the Constitution, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), or Part B of title II of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6271-76) to prohibit exports. (4) The Secretary of Commerce shall issue any rules necessary for implementation of the President's national interest determination, including any licensing requirements and conditions, within 30 days of the date of such determination by the President. The Secretary of Commerce shall consult with the Secretary of Energy in administering the provisions of this subsection. (5) If the Secretary of Commerce finds that exporting oil under authority of this subsection has caused sustained material oil supply shortages or sustained oil prices significantly above world market levels and further finds that these supply shortages or price increases have caused or are likely to cause sustained material adverse employment effects in the United States, the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, shall recommend, and the President may take, appropriate action concerning exports of this oil, which may include modifying or revoking authority to export such oil. (6) Administrative action under this subsection is not subject to sections 551 and 553 through 559 of title 5. (t) Existing rights-of-way The Secretary or agency head may ratify and confirm any right-of-way or permit for an oil or gas pipeline or related facility that was granted under any provision of law before the effective date of this subsection, if it is modified by mutual agreement to comply to the extent practical with the provisions of this section. Any action taken by the Secretary or agency head pursuant to this subsection shall not be considered a major Federal action requiring a detailed statement pursuant to section 102(2)(C) [42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)] of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 90-190; 42 U.S.C. 4321). (u) Limitations on export Any domestically produced crude oil transported by pipeline over rights-of-way granted pursuant to this section, except such crude oil which is either exchanged in similar quantity for convenience or increased efficiency of transportation with persons or the government of an adjacent foreign state, or which is temporarily exported for convenience or increased efficiency of transportation across parts of an adjacent foreign state and reenters the United States, shall be subject to all of the limitations and licensing requirements of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2401 and following) and, in addition, before any crude oil subject to this section may be exported under the limitations and licensing requirements and penalty and enforcement provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1979 the President must make and publish an express finding that such exports will not diminish the total quantity or quality of petroleum available to the United States, and are in the national interest and are in accord with the provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1979: Provided, That the President shall submit reports to the Congress containing findings made under this section, and after the date of receipt of such report Congress shall have a period of sixty calendar days, thirty days of which Congress must have been in session, to consider whether exports under the terms of this section are in the national interest. If the Congress within this time period passes a concurrent resolution of disapproval stating disagreement with the President's finding concerning the national interest, further exports made pursuant to the aforementioned Presidential findings shall cease. (v) State standards The Secretary or agency head shall take into consideration and to the extent practical comply with State standards for right-of-way construction, operation, and maintenance. (w) Reports (1) The Secretary and other appropriate agency heads shall report to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate annually on the administration of this section and on the safety and environmental requirements imposed pursuant thereto. (2) The Secretary or agency head shall promptly notify the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate upon receipt of an application for a right-of-way for a pipeline twenty-four inches or more in diameter, and no right-of-way for such a pipeline shall be granted until a notice of intention to grant the right-of-way, together with the Secretary's or agency head's detailed findings as to the terms and conditions he proposes to impose, has been submitted to such committees. (3) Periodically, but at least once a year, the Secretary of the Department of Transportation shall cause the examination of all pipelines and associated facilities on Federal lands and shall cause the prompt reporting of any potential leaks or safety problems. (x) Liability (1) The Secretary or agency head shall promulgate regulations and may impose stipulations specifying the extent to which holders of rights-of-way and permits under this chapter shall be liable to the United States for damage or injury incurred by the United States in connection with the right-of-way or permit. Where the right-of-way or permit involves lands which are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal Government, the Secretary or agency head shall promulgate regulations specifying the extent to which holders shall be liable to third parties for injuries incurred in connection with the right-of-way or permit. (2) The Secretary or agency head may, by regulation or stipulation, impose a standard of strict liability to govern activities taking place on a right-of-way or permit area which the Secretary or agency head determines, in his discretion, to present a foreseeable hazard or risk of danger to the United States. (3) Regulations and stipulations pursuant to this subsection shall not impose strict liability for damage or injury resulting from (A) an act of war, or (B) negligence of the United States. (4) Any regulation or stipulation imposing liability without fault shall include a maximum limitation on damages commensurate with the foreseeable risks or hazards presented. Any liability for damage or injury in excess of this amount shall be determined by ordinary rules of negligence. (5) The regulations and stipulations shall also specify the extent to which such holders shall indemnify or hold harmless the United States for liability, damage, or claims arising in connection with the right-of-way or permit. (6) Any regulation or stipulation promulgated or imposed pursuant to this section shall provide that all owners of any interest in, and all affiliates or subsidiaries of any holder of, a right-of-way or permit shall be liable to the United States in the event that a claim for damage or injury cannot be collected from the holder. (7) In any case where liability without fault is imposed pursuant to this subsection and the damages involved were caused by the negligence of a third party, the rules of subrogation shall apply in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction where the damage occurred. (y) Antitrust laws The grant of a right-of-way or permit pursuant to this section shall grant no immunity from the operation of the Federal antitrust laws. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 28, 41 Stat. 449; Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 599, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 678; Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 408, 67 Stat. 557; Pub. L. 93-153, title I, Sec. 101, Nov. 16, 1973, 87 Stat. 576; Pub. L. 95-91, title III, Secs. 301(b), 306, title IV, Sec. 402(a), (b), title VII, Secs. 703, 707, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 578, 581, 583, 584, 606, 607; Pub. L. 99-64, title I, Sec. 123(b), July 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 156; Pub. L. 101-475, Sec. 1, Oct. 30, 1990, 104 Stat. 1102; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 11(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4589; Pub. L. 104-58, title II, Sec. 201, Nov. 28, 1995, 109 Stat. 560; Pub. L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1121(k), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 724.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, referred to in subsec. (h)(1), is Pub. L. 91-190, Jan 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 852, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 55 (Sec. 4321 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4321 of Title 42 and Tables. The date of enactment of this subsection, referred to in subsec. (k), the effective date of this provision, referred to in subsec. (q), and the effective date of this subsection, referred to in subsec. (t), probably mean the date of approval of Pub. L. 93-153, which was Nov. 16, 1973. The Natural Gas Act, referred to in subsec. (r)(3)(A), is act June 21, 1938, ch. 556, 52 Stat. 821, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 15B (Sec. 717 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 717w of Title 15 and Tables. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in subsec. (s)(3), is title II of Pub. L. 95-223, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1626, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (Sec. 1701 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of Title 50 and Tables. The National Emergencies Act, referred to in subsec. (s)(3), is Pub. L. 94-412, Sept. 14, 1976, 90 Stat. 1255, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 34 (Sec. 1601 et seq.) of Title 50. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of Title 50 and Tables. The Energy Policy and Conservation Act, referred to in subsec. (s)(3), is Pub. L. 94-163, Dec. 22, 1975, 89 Stat. 871, as amended. Part B of title II of the Act is classified generally to part B (Sec. 6271 et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 77 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6201 of Title 42 and Tables. The Export Administration Act of 1979, referred to in subsec. (u), is Pub. L. 96-72, Sept. 29, 1979, 93 Stat. 503, as amended, which is classified principally to section 2401 et seq. of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2401 of Title 50, Appendix, and Tables. The Federal antitrust laws, referred to in subsec. (y), are classified generally to chapter 1 (Sec. 1 et seq.) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1995 - Subsec. (s). Pub. L. 104-58 amended heading and text of subsec. (s) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (s) provided that the Secretary of Interior, in consultation with Federal and State agencies, review need for national system of transportation and utility corridors across Federal lands and report to Congress and the President by July 1, 1975. Subsec. (w)(4). Pub. L. 104-66 struck out par. (4) which read as follows: "The Secretary of the Department of Transportation shall report annually to the President, the Congress, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Energy any potential dangers of or actual explosions, or potential or actual spillage on Federal lands and shall include in such report a statement of corrective action taken to prevent such explosion or spillage." 1994 - Subsec. (w)(1), (2). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted "Natural Resources" for "Interior and Insular Affairs" before "of the United States House". 1990 - Subsec. (w)(1). Pub. L. 101-475, Sec. 1(a), substituted "Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate" for "House and Senate Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs". Subsec. (w)(2). Pub. L. 101-475, Sec. 1(b), amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (2) read as follows: "The Secretary or agency head shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs promptly upon receipt of an application for a right-of-way for a pipeline twenty-four inches or more in diameter, and no right-of-way for such a pipeline shall be granted until sixty days (not counting days on which the House of Representatives or the Senate has adjourned for more than three days) after a notice of intention to grant the right-of-way, together with the Secretary's or agency head's detailed findings as to terms and conditions he proposes to impose, has been submitted to such committees, unless each committee by resolution waives the waiting period." 1985 - Subsec. (u). Pub. L. 99-64 substituted "Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2401 and following)" for "Export Administration Act of 1969 (Act of December 30, 1969; 83 Stat. 841)" and "Export Administration Act of 1979" for "Export Administration Act of 1969" in two places. 1973 - Pub. L. 93-153 completely rewrote the section substituting 25 subsecs. lettered (a) through (y) covering all aspects of the granting of rights-of-way for pipelines through Federal lands for the former single unlettered paragraph under which rights-of-way of 25 feet on each side of the pipeline could be granted and under which the pipeline was to be operated as a common carrier. 1953 - Act Aug. 12, 1953, permitted companies subject to Federal regulation, or public utilities subject to State regulations, to pass through the public domain without incurring the obligation to become a common carrier. 1935 - Act Aug. 21, 1935, substituted "may be granted by the Secretary of the Interior" for "are granted" and inserted "and conditions" after "regulations" in two places, and "and shall accept, convey, transport, or purchase without discrimination, oil or natural gas produced from Government lands in the vicinity of the pipe line in such proportionate amounts as the Secretary of the Interior may, after a full hearing with notice thereof to the interested parties and a proper finding of facts, determine to be reasonable:" after "and maintained as common carriers.". -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department of the Interior related to compliance with grants of rights-of-way and temporary use permits for Federal land and such functions of Secretary or other official in Department of Agriculture, insofar as they involve lands and programs under jurisdiction of Department of Agriculture, related to compliance with associated land use permits authorized for and in conjunction with grants of rights-of-way across Federal lands issued under this section with respect to pre-construction, construction, and initial operation of transportation system for Canadian and Alaskan natural gas were transferred to the Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, until the first anniversary of date of initial operation of the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, see Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1979, Secs. 102(e), (f), 203(a), 44 F.R. 33663, 33666, 93 Stat. 1373, 1376, effective July 1, 1979, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System abolished and functions and authority vested in Inspector transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 3012(b) of Pub. L. 102-486, set out as an Abolition of Office of Federal Inspector note under section 719e of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. "Secretary of Energy or Federal Energy Regulatory Commission" substituted for "Interstate Commerce Commission or Federal Power Commission" in subsec. (r)(5) pursuant to sections 301(b), 306, 402(a), (b), 703, and 707 of Pub. L. 95-91, which are classified to sections 7151(b), 7155, 7172(a), (b), 7293, and 7297 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and which transferred functions vested in Interstate Commerce Commission, and Chairman and members thereof, relating to transportation of oil by pipeline to Secretary of Energy (except for certain functions which were transferred to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission within Department of Energy), and terminated Federal Power Commission and transferred its functions to Secretary of Energy (except for certain functions which were transferred to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). -MISC2- REIMBURSEMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER COSTS Pub. L. 105-277, div. A, Sec. 101(e) [title II], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-231, 2681-272, provided that: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, hereafter money collected, in advance or otherwise, by the Forest Service under authority of section 101 of Public Law 93-153 (30 U.S.C. 185(1)[(l)]) as reimbursement of administrative and other costs incurred in processing pipeline right-of-way or permit applications and for costs incurred in monitoring the construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of any pipeline and related facilities, may be used to reimburse the applicable appropriation to which such costs were originally charged." Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 105-83, title II, Nov. 14, 1997, 111 Stat. 1576. Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, title I, Sec. 101(d) [title II], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-181, 3009-208. Pub. L. 104-134, title I, Sec. 101(c) [title II], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321-156, 1321-184; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104-140, Sec. 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327. Pub. L. 103-332, title II, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2524. Pub. L. 103-138, title II, Nov. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 1403. Pub. L. 102-381, title II, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1401. Pub. L. 102-154, title II, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1017. GAO REPORT Section 202 of Pub. L. 104-58 directed the Comptroller General of the United States to commence, three years after Nov. 28, 1995, a review of energy production in California and Alaska and the effects of Alaskan North Slope oil exports, if any, on consumers, independent refiners, and shipbuilding and ship repair yards on the West Coast and in Hawaii, and to submit to Congress, within twelve months after commencing the review, a report containing recommendations for Congress and the President to address job loss in the shipbuilding and ship repair industry on the West Coast, as well as adverse impacts on consumers and refiners on the West Coast and in Hawaii, that are attributed to Alaska North Slope oil exports. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; PIPELINE RIGHTS-OF-WAY Pipeline rights-of-way in connection with oil, gas, and other leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1334 of Title 43, Public Lands. -EXEC- EXPORTS OF ALASKAN NORTH SLOPE (ANS) CRUDE OIL Memorandum of President of the United States, Apr. 28, 1996, 61 F.R. 19507, provided: Memorandum for the Secretary of Commerce [and] the Secretary of Energy Pursuant to section 28(s) of the Mineral Leasing Act, as amended, 30 U.S.C. 185, I hereby determine that exports of crude oil transported over right-of-way granted pursuant to section 203 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act [43 U.S.C. 1652] are in the national interest. In making this determination, I have taken into account the conclusions of an interagency working group, which found that such oil exports: - will not diminish the total quantity or quality of petroleum available to the United States; and - are not likely to cause sustained material oil supply shortages or sustained oil price increases significantly above world market levels that would cause sustained material adverse employment effects in the United States or that would cause substantial harm to consumers, including those located in noncontiguous States and Pacific Territories. I have also considered the interagency group's conclusions regarding potential environmental impacts of lifting the ban. Based on their findings and recommendations, I have concluded that exports of such crude oil will not pose significant risks to the environment if certain terms and conditions are met. Therefore, pursuant to section 28(s) of the Mineral Leasing Act I direct the Secretary of Commerce to promulgate immediately a general license, or a license exception, authorizing exports of such crude oil, subject to appropriate documentation requirements, and consistent with the following conditions: - tankers exporting ANS exports must use the same route that they do for shipments to Hawaii until they reach a point 300 miles due south of Cape Hinchinbrook Light and then turn toward Asian destinations. After reaching that point, tankers in the ANS oil trade must remain outside of the 200 nautical-miles Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States as defined in the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1811) [probably means the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act]. This condition also applies to tankers returning from foreign ports to Valdez, Alaska. Exceptions can be made at the discretion of the vessel master only to ensure the safety of the vessel; - that export tankers be equipped with satellite-based communications systems that will enable the Coast Guard independently to determine their location. The Coast Guard will conduct appropriate monitoring of the tankers, a measure that will ensure compliance with the 200-mile condition, and help the Coast Guard respond quickly to any emergencies; - the owner or operator of an Alaskan North Slope crude oil export tankship shall maintain a Critical Area Inspection Plan for each tankship in the trade in accordance with the U.S. Coast Guard's Navigation and Inspection Circular No. 15-91 as amended, which shall include an annual internal survey of the vessel's cargo block tanks; and - the owner or operator of an Alaskan North Slope crude oil export tankship shall adopt a mandatory program of deep water ballast exchange (i.e., in 2,000 meters water depth). Exceptions can be made at the discretion of the captain only in order to ensure the safety of the vessel. Recordkeeping subject to Coast Guard audit will be required as part of this regime. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to inform the appropriate committees of the Congress of this determination and to publish it in the Federal Register. William J. Clinton. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 236a, 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435; title 16 section 3167; title 33 section 1522; title 42 sections 6271, 6502; title 43 sections 1652, 1768, 2009; title 50 App. section 2406. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 186 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 186. Reservation of easements or rights-of-way for working purposes; reservation of right to dispose of surface of lands; determination before offering of lease; easement periods -STATUTE- Any permit, lease, occupation, or use permitted under this chapter shall reserve to the Secretary of the Interior the right to permit upon such terms as he may determine to be just, for joint or several use, such easements or rights-of-way, including easements in tunnels upon, through, or in the lands leased, occupied, or used as may be necessary or appropriate to the working of the same, or of other lands containing the deposits described in this chapter, and the treatment and shipment of the products thereof by or under authority of the Government, its lessees, or permittees, and for other public purposes. The Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, in making any lease under this chapter, may reserve to the United States the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within such lease under existing law or laws hereafter enacted, insofar as said surface is not necessary for use of the lessee in extracting and removing the deposits therein. If such reservation is made it shall be so determined before the offering of such lease. The said Secretary, during the life of the lease, is authorized to issue such permits for easements herein provided to be reserved. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 29, 41 Stat. 449.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 187 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 187. Assignment or subletting of leases; relinquishment of rights under leases; conditions in leases for protection of diverse interests in operation of mines, wells, etc.; State laws not impaired -STATUTE- No lease issued under the authority of this chapter shall be assigned or sublet, except with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. The lessee may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be permitted at any time to make written relinquishment of all rights under such a lease, and upon acceptance thereof be thereby relieved of all future obligations under said lease, and may with like consent surrender any legal subdivision of the area included within the lease. Each lease shall contain provisions for the purpose of insuring the exercise of reasonable diligence, skill, and care in the operation of said property; a provision that such rules for the safety and welfare of the miners and for the prevention of undue waste as may be prescribed by said Secretary shall be observed, including a restriction of the workday to not exceeding eight hours in any one day for underground workers except in cases of emergency; provisions prohibiting the employment of any child under the age of sixteen in any mine below the surface; provisions securing the workmen complete freedom of purchase; provision requiring the payment of wages at least twice a month in lawful money of the United States, and providing proper rules and regulations to insure the fair and just weighing or measurement of the coal mined by each miner, and such other provisions as he may deem necessary to insure the sale of the production of such leased lands to the United States and to the public at reasonable prices, for the protection of the interests of the United States, for the prevention of monopoly, and for the safeguarding of the public welfare. None of such provisions shall be in conflict with the laws of the State in which the leased property is situated. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 30, 41 Stat. 449; Pub. L. 95-554, Sec. 5, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2074.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1978 - Pub. L. 95-554 substituted "provisions prohibiting the employment of any child under the age of sixteen in any mine below the surface" for "provisions prohibiting the employment of any boy under the age of sixteen or the employment of any girl or woman, without regard to age, in any mine below the surface". -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 187a, 187b, 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 187a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 187a. Oil or gas leases; partial assignments -STATUTE- Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section 187 of this title, any oil or gas lease issued under the authority of this chapter may be assigned or subleased, as to all or part of the acreage included therein, subject to final approval by the Secretary and as to either a divided or undivided interest therein, to any person or persons qualified to own a lease under this chapter, and any assignment or sublease shall take effect as of the first day of the lease month following the date of filing in the proper land office of three original executed counterparts thereof, together with any required bond and proof of the qualification under this chapter of the assignee or sublessee to take or hold such lease or interest therein. Until such approval, however, the assignor or sublessor and his surety shall continue to be responsible for the performance of any and all obligations as if no assignment or sublease had been executed. The Secretary shall disapprove the assignment or sublease only for lack of qualification of the assignee or sublessee or for lack of sufficient bond: Provided, however, That the Secretary may, in his discretion, disapprove an assignment of any of the following, unless the assignment constitutes the entire lease or is demonstrated to further the development of oil and gas: (1) A separate zone or deposit under any lease. (2) A part of a legal subdivision. (3) Less than 640 acres outside Alaska or of less than 2,560 acres within Alaska. Requests for approval of assignment or sublease shall be processed promptly by the Secretary. Except where the assignment or sublease is not in accordance with applicable law, the approval shall be given within 60 days of the date of receipt by the Secretary of a request for such approval. Upon approval of any assignment or sublease, the assignee or sublessee shall be bound by the terms of the lease to the same extent as if such assignee or sublessee were the original lessee, any conditions in the assignment or sublease to the contrary notwithstanding. Any partial assignment of any lease shall segregate the assigned and retained portions thereof, and as above provided, release and discharge the assignor from all obligations thereafter accruing with respect to the assigned lands; and such segregated leases shall continue in full force and effect for the primary term of the original lease, but for not less than two years after the date of discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities upon any other segregated portion of the lands originally subject to such lease. Assignments under this section may also be made of parts of leases which are in their extended term because of any provision of this chapter. Upon the segregation by an assignment of a lease issued after September 2, 1960 and held beyond its primary term by production, actual or suspended, or the payment of compensatory royalty, the segregated lease of an undeveloped, assigned, or retained part shall continue for two years, and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 30A, formerly Sec. 30a, as added Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 7, 60 Stat. 955; amended July 29, 1954, ch. 644, Sec. 1(6), 68 Stat. 585; Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 6, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 790; renumbered Sec. 30A and amended Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5103, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-258.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1987 - Pub. L. 100-203 substituted third to fifth sentences for former third sentence which read as follows: "The Secretary shall disapprove the assignment or sublease only for lack of qualification of the assignee or sublessee or for lack of sufficient bond: Provided, however, That the Secretary may, in his discretion, disapprove an assignment of a separate zone or deposit under any lease, or of a part of a legal subdivision." 1960 - Pub. L. 86-705 amended last sentence to restrict automatic extensions after Sept. 2, 1960. 1954 - Act July 29, 1954, authorized partial assignment of a lease in its extended term regardless of reason for extension. SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. LEASES ISSUED PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 2, 1960 Section 6 of Pub. L. 86-705 provided in part that: "The provisions of this section 6 [amending this section] shall not be applicable to any lease issued prior to the effective date of this Act [Sept. 2, 1960]." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 187b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 187b. Oil or gas leases; written relinquishment of rights; release of obligations -STATUTE- Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 187 of this title, a lessee may at any time make and file in the appropriate land office a written relinquishment of all rights under any oil or gas lease issued under the authority of this chapter or of any legal subdivision of the area included within any such lease. Such relinquishment shall be effective as of the date of its filing, subject to the continued obligation of the lessee and his surety to make payment of all accrued rentals and royalties and to place all wells on the lands to be relinquished in condition for suspension or abandonment in accordance with the applicable lease terms and regulations; thereupon the lessee shall be released of all obligations thereafter accruing under said lease with respect to the lands relinquished, but no such relinquishment shall release such lessee, or his bond, from any liability for breach of any obligation of the lease, other than an obligation to drill, accrued at the date of the relinquishment. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 30B, formerly Sec. 30b, as added Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 8, 60 Stat. 956; renumbered Sec. 30B, Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5103, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-258.) -MISC1- SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 188 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 188. Failure to comply with provisions of lease -STATUTE- (a) Forfeiture Except as otherwise herein provided, any lease issued under the provisions of this chapter may be forfeited and canceled by an appropriate proceeding in the United States district court for the district in which the property, or some part thereof, is located whenever the lessee fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, of the lease, or of the general regulations promulgated under this chapter and in force at the date of the lease; and the lease may provide for resort to appropriate methods for the settlement of disputes or for remedies for breach of specified conditions thereof. (b) Cancellation Any lease issued after August 21, 1935, under the provisions of section 226 of this title shall be subject to cancellation by the Secretary of the Interior after 30 days notice upon the failure of the lessee to comply with any of the provisions of the lease, unless or until the leasehold contains a well capable of production of oil or gas in paying quantities, or the lease is committed to an approved cooperative or unit plan or communitization agreement under section 226(m) of this title which contains a well capable of production of unitized substances in paying quantities. Such notice in advance of cancellation shall be sent the lease owner by registered letter directed to the lease owner's record post-office address, and in case such letter shall be returned as undelivered, such notice shall also be posted for a period of thirty days in the United States land office for the district in which the land covered by such lease is situated, or in the event that there is no district land office for such district, then in the post office nearest such land. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, however, upon failure of a lessee to pay rental on or before the anniversary date of the lease, for any lease on which there is no well capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities, the lease shall automatically terminate by operation of law: Provided, however, That when the time for payment falls upon any day in which the proper office for payment is not open, payment may be received the next official working day and shall be considered as timely made: Provided, That if the rental payment due under a lease is paid on or before the anniversary date but either (1) the amount of the payment has been or is hereafter deficient and the deficiency is nominal, as determined by the Secretary by regulation, or (2) the payment was calculated in accordance with the acreage figure stated in the lease, or in any decision affecting the lease, or made in accordance with a bill or decision which has been rendered by him and such figure, bill, or decision is found to be in error resulting in a deficiency, such lease shall not automatically terminate unless (1) a new lease had been issued prior to May 12, 1970, or (2) the lessee fails to pay the deficiency within the period prescribed in a notice of deficiency sent to him by the Secretary. (c) Reinstatement Where any lease has been or is hereafter terminated automatically by operation of law under this section for failure to pay on or before the anniversary date the full amount of rental due, but such rental was paid on or tendered within twenty days thereafter, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that such failure was either justifiable or not due to a lack of reasonable diligence on the part of the lessee, the Secretary may reinstate the lease if - (1) a petition for reinstatement, together with the required rental, including back rental accruing from the date of termination of the lease, is filed with the Secretary; and (2) no valid lease has been issued affecting any of the lands covered by the terminated lease prior to the filing of said petition. The Secretary shall not issue any new lease affecting any of the lands covered by such terminated lease for a reasonable period, as determined in accordance with regulations issued by him. In any case where a reinstatement of a terminated lease is granted under this subsection and the Secretary finds that the reinstatement of such lease will not afford the lessee a reasonable opportunity to continue operations under the lease, the Secretary may, at his discretion, extend the term of such lease for such period as he deems reasonable: Provided, That (A) such extension shall not exceed a period equivalent to the time beginning when the lessee knew or should have known of the termination and ending on the date the Secretary grants such petition; (B) such extension shall not exceed a period equal to the unexpired portion of the lease or any extension thereof remaining at the date of termination; and (C) when the reinstatement occurs after the expiration of the term or extension thereof the lease may be extended from the date the Secretary grants the petition. (d) Additional grounds for reinstatement (1) Where any oil and gas lease issued pursuant to section 226(b) or (c) of this title or the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (30 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) has been, or is hereafter, terminated automatically by operation of law under this section for failure to pay on or before the anniversary date the full amount of the rental due, and such rental is not paid or tendered within twenty days thereafter, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that such failure was justifiable or not due to lack of reasonable diligence on the part of the lessee, or, no matter when the rental is paid after termination, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such failure was inadvertent, the Secretary may reinstate the lease as of the date of termination for the unexpired portion of the primary term of the original lease or any extension thereof remaining at the date of termination, and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. In any case where a lease is reinstated under this subsection and the Secretary finds that the reinstatement of such lease (A) occurs after the expiration of the primary term or any extension thereof, or (B) will not afford the lessee a reasonable opportunity to continue operations under the lease, the Secretary may, at his discretion, extend the term of such lease for such period as he deems reasonable, but in no event for more than two years from the date the Secretary authorizes the reinstatement and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. (2) No lease shall be reinstated under paragraph (1) of this subsection unless - (A) with respect to any lease that terminated under subsection (b) of this section prior to January 12, 1983: (i) the lessee tendered rental prior to January 12, 1983, and the final determination that the lease terminated was made by the Secretary or a court less than three years before January 12, 1983, and (ii) a petition for reinstatement together with the required back rental and royalty accruing from the date of termination, is filed with the Secretary on or before the one hundred and twentieth day after January 12, 1983, or (B) with respect to any lease that terminated under subsection (b) of this section on or after January 12, 1983, a petition for reinstatement together with the required back rental and royalty accruing from the date of termination is filed on or before the earlier of - (i) sixty days after the lessee receives from the Secretary notice of termination, whether by return of check or by any other form of actual notice, or (ii) fifteen months after termination of the lease. (e) Conditions for reinstatement Any reinstatement under subsection (d) of this section shall be made only if these conditions are met: (1) no valid lease, whether still in existence or not, shall have been issued affecting any of the lands covered by the terminated lease prior to the filing of such petition: Provided, however, That after receipt of a petition for reinstatement, the Secretary shall not issue any new lease affecting any of the lands covered by such terminated lease for a reasonable period, as determined in accordance with regulations issued by him; (2) payment of back rentals and either the inclusion in a reinstated lease issued pursuant to the provisions of section 226(b) of this title of a requirement for future rentals at a rate of not less than $10 per acre per year, or the inclusion in a reinstated lease issued pursuant to the provisions of section 226(c) of this title of a requirement that future rentals shall be at a rate not less than $5 per acre per year, all as determined by the Secretary; (3)(A) payment of back royalties and the inclusion in a reinstated lease issued pursuant to the provisions of section 226(b) of this title of a requirement for future royalties at a rate of not less than 16(!2/3) percent computed on a sliding scale based upon the average production per well per day, at a rate which shall be not less than 4 percentage points greater than the competitive royality (!1) schedule then in force and used for royalty determination for competitive leases issued pursuant to such section as determined by the Secretary: Provided, That royalty on such reinstated lease shall be paid on all production removed or sold from such lease subsequent to the termination of the original lease; (B) payment of back royalties and inclusion in a reinstated lease issued pursuant to the provisions of section 226(c) of this title of a requirement for future royalties at a rate not less than 16 2/3 percent: Provided, That royalty on such reinstated lease shall be paid on all production removed or sold from such lease subsequent to the cancellation or termination of the original lease; and (4) notice of the proposed reinstatement of a terminated lease, including the terms and conditions of reinstatement, shall be published in the Federal Register at least thirty days in advance of the reinstatement. A copy of said notice, together with information concerning rental, royalty, volume of production, if any, and any other matter which the Secretary deemed significant in making this determination to reinstate, shall be furnished to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate at least thirty days in advance of the reinstatement. The lessee of a reinstated lease shall reimburse the Secretary for the administrative costs of reinstating the lease, but not to exceed $500. In addition the lessee shall reimburse the Secretary for the cost of publication in the Federal Register of the notice of proposed reinstatement. (f) Issuance of noncompetitive oil and gas lease; conditions Where an unpatented oil placer mining claim validly located prior to February 24, 1920, which has been or is currently producing or is capable of producing oil or gas, has been or is hereafter deemed conclusively abandoned for failure to file timely the required instruments or copies of instruments required by section 1744 of title 43, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that such failure was inadvertent, justifiable, or not due to lack of reasonable diligence on the part of the owner, the Secretary may issue, for the lands covered by the abandoned unpatented oil placer mining claim, a noncompetitive oil and gas lease, consistent with the provisions of section 226(e) of this title, to be effective from the statutory date the claim was deemed conclusively abandoned. Issuance of such a lease shall be conditioned upon: (1) a petition for issuance of a noncompetitive oil and gas lease, together with the required rental and royalty, including back rental and royalty accruing from the statutory date of abandonment of the oil placer mining claim, being filed with the Secretary - (A) with respect to any claim deemed conclusively abandoned on or before January 12, 1983, on or before the one hundred and twentieth day after January 12, 1983, or (B) with respect to any claim deemed conclusively abandoned after January 12, 1983, on or before the one hundred and twentieth day after final notification by the Secretary or a court of competent jurisdiction of the determination of the abandonment of the oil placer mining claim; (2) a valid lease not having been issued affecting any of the lands covered by the abandoned oil placer mining claim prior to the filing of such petition: Provided, however, That after the filing of a petition for issuance of a lease under this subsection, the Secretary shall not issue any new lease affecting any of the lands covered by such abandoned oil placer mining claim for a reasonable period, as determined in accordance with regulations issued by him; (3) a requirement in the lease for payment of rental, including back rentals accruing from the statutory date of abandonment of the oil placer mining claim, of not less than $5 per acre per year; (4) a requirement in the lease for payment of royalty on production removed or sold from the oil placer mining claim, including all royalty on production made subsequent to the statutory date the claim was deemed conclusively abandoned, of not less than 12 1/2 percent; and (5) compliance with the notice and reimbursement of costs provisions of paragraph (4) of subsection (e) of this section but addressed to the petition covering the conversion of an abandoned unpatented oil placer mining claim to a noncompetitive oil and gas lease. (g) Treatment of leases (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a reinstated lease shall be treated as a competitive or a noncompetitive oil and gas lease in the same manner as the original lease issued pursuant to section 226(b) or (c) of this title. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the issuance of a lease in lieu of an abandoned patented oil placer mining claim shall be treated as a noncompetitive oil and gas lease issued pursuant to section 226(c) of this title. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any lease issued pursuant to section 223 of this title shall be eligible for reinstatement under the terms and conditions set forth in subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, applicable to leases issued under section 226(c) of this title except, that, upon reinstatement, such lease shall continue for twenty years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any lease issued pursuant to section 223 of this title shall, upon renewal on or after November 15, 1990, continue for twenty years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. (h) Statutory provisions applicable to leases The minimum royalty provisions of section 226(m) of this title and the provisions of section 209 of this title shall be applicable to leases issued pursuant to subsections (d) and (f) of this section. (i) Royalty reductions (1) In acting on a petition to issue a noncompetitive oil and gas lease, under subsection (f) of this section or in response to a request filed after issuance of such a lease, or both, the Secretary is authorized to reduce the royalty on such lease if in his judgment it is equitable to do so or the circumstances warrant such relief due to uneconomic or other circumstances which could cause undue hardship or premature termination of production. (2) In acting on a petition for reinstatement pursuant to subsection (d) of this section or in response to a request filed after reinstatement, or both, the Secretary is authorized to reduce the royalty in that reinstated lease on the entire leasehold or any tract or portion thereof segregated for royalty purposes if, in his judgment, there are uneconomic or other circumstances which could cause undue hardship or premature termination of production; or because of any written action of the United States, its agents or employees, which preceded, and was a major consideration in, the lessee's expenditure of funds to develop the property under the lease after the rent had become due and had not been paid; or if in the judgment of the Secretary it is equitable to do so for any reason. (j) Discretion of Secretary Where, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, drilling operations were being diligently conducted on the last day of the primary term of the lease, and, except for nonpayment of rental, the lessee would have been entitled to extension of his lease, pursuant to section 226-1(d) of this title, the Secretary of the Interior may reinstate such lease notwithstanding the failure of the lessee to have made payment of the next year's rental, provided the conditions of subparagraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (c) of this section are satisfied. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 31, 41 Stat. 450; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 9, 60 Stat. 956; July 29, 1954, ch. 644, Sec. 1(7), 68 Stat. 585; Pub. L. 87-822, Sec. 1, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 943; Pub. L. 91-245, Secs. 1, 2, May 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 206; Pub. L. 97-451, title IV, Sec. 401, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2462; Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Secs. 5102(d)(2), 5104, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-258, 1330-259; Pub. L. 101-567, Sec. 1, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2802; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 11(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4589.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands, referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is act Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, 61 Stat. 913, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 7 (Sec. 351 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 351 of this title and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1994 - Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted "Natural Resources" for "Interior and Insular Affairs" before "of the House" in concluding provisions. 1990 - Subsec. (g)(3), (4). Pub. L. 101-567 added pars. (3) and (4). 1987 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100-203, Sec. 5104, amended first sentence generally. Prior to amendment, first sentence read as follows: "Any lease issued after August 21, 1935, under the provisions of section 226 of this title shall be subject to cancellation by the Secretary of the Interior after thirty days' notice upon the failure of the lessee to comply with any of the provisions of the lease, unless or until the land covered by any such lease is known to contain valuable deposits of oil or gas." Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 100-203, Sec. 5102(d)(2), substituted "section 226(m)" for "section 226(j)". 1983 - Subsecs. (d) to (j). Pub. L. 97-451 added subsecs. (d) to (i) and redesignated former subsec. (d) as (j). 1970 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91-245, Sec. 1, inserted proviso authorizing continuance of a lease where timely paid rent is nominally deficient or miscalculated due to an error either in acreage figure stated in the lease, in any decision affecting the lease, or in a bill or decision rendered by the Secretary, except where a new lease was issued prior to May 12, 1970 or the lessee failed to pay the deficiency within the period allowed by the Secretary. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 91-245, Sec. 2, inserted provisions allowing reinstatement of a lease despite a twenty-day delay in payment of rent, made the payment of back rental accruing from the date of termination of the lease a prerequisite to such reinstatement, restricted the Secretary's power to issue a new lease on the lands covered by the terminated lease, gave the Secretary discretion to extend the term of a reinstated lease so as to afford the lessee a reasonable opportunity to continue operations under the lease, and struck out requirement that the petition for reinstatement of any lease terminated prior to Oct. 15, 1962 be filed within 180 days after Oct. 15, 1962. 1962 - Pub. L. 87-822 designated existing pars. as subsecs. (a) and (b) and added subsecs. (c) and (d). 1954 - Act July 29, 1954, provided for automatic termination of a lease on failure to pay rental on or before anniversary date of lease, for any lease on which there is no well capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities. 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, principally added second par. relating to cancellation of leases by Secretary of the Interior. -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. -MISC2- SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. AUTHORITY FOR ISSUANCE OF LEASES UNAFFECTED BY REINSTATEMENT OF LEASES Section 2 of Pub. L. 87-822 provided that: "Nothing in this Act [amending this section] shall be construed as limiting the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to issue, during the periods in which petitions for reinstatement may be filed, oil and gas leases for any of the lands affected." OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; CANCELLATION OF LEASES Cancellation of mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see sections 1334 and 1337 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285, 1719, of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. Probably should be "royalty". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 188a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 188a. Surrender of leases -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept the surrender of any lease issued pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter, or any amendment thereof, where the surrender is filed in the Bureau of Land Management subsequent to the accrual but prior to the payment of the yearly rental due under the lease, upon payment of the accrued rental on a pro rata monthly basis for the portion of the lease year prior to the filing of the surrender. The authority granted to the Secretary of the Interior by this section shall extend only to cases in which he finds that the failure of the lessee to file a timely surrender of the lease prior to the accrual of the rental was not due to a lack of reasonable diligence, but it shall not extend to claims or cases which have been referred to the Department of Justice for purposes of suit. -SOURCE- (Nov. 28, 1943, ch. 329, 57 Stat. 593; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS "Bureau of Land Management" substituted in text for "General Land Office" on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 189 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 189. Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this chapter, also to fix and determine the boundary lines of any structure, or oil or gas field, for the purposes of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed or held to affect the rights of the States or other local authority to exercise any rights which they may have, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or other rights, property, or assets of any lessee of the United States. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 32, 41 Stat. 450.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. -MISC1- OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO LEASES Rules and regulations with respect to mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf to be prescribed by Secretary of the Interior, see section 1334 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 190 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 190. Oath; requirement; form; blanks -STATUTE- All statements, representations, or reports required by the Secretary of the Interior under this chapter shall be upon oath, unless otherwise specified by him, and in such form and upon such blanks as the Secretary of the Interior may require. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 33, 41 Stat. 450.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 191 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 191. Disposition of moneys received -STATUTE- (a) All money received from sales, bonuses, royalties including interest charges collected under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 [30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.], and rentals of the public lands under the provisions of this chapter and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 [30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.], shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States; and, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, 50 per centum thereof shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State other than Alaska within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits are or were located; said moneys paid to any of such States on or after January 1, 1976, to be used by such State and its subdivisions, as the legislature of the State may direct giving priority to those subdivisions of the State socially or economically impacted by development of minerals leased under this chapter, for (i) planning, (ii) construction and maintenance of public facilities, and (iii) provision of public service; and excepting those from Alaska, 40 per centum thereof shall be paid into, reserved, appropriated, as part of the reclamation fund created by the Act of Congress known as the Reclamation Act, approved June 17, 1902, and of those from Alaska, 90 per centum thereof shall be paid to the State of Alaska for disposition by the legislature thereof: Provided, That all moneys which may accrue to the United States under the provisions of this chapter and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 from lands within the naval petroleum reserves shall be deposited in the Treasury as "miscellaneous receipts", as provided by section 7433(b) of title 10. All moneys received under the provisions of this chapter and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 not otherwise disposed of by this section shall be credited to miscellaneous receipts. Payments to States under this section with respect to any moneys received by the United States, shall be made not later than the last business day of the month in which such moneys are warranted by the United States Treasury to the Secretary as having been received, except for any portion of such moneys which is under challenge and placed in a suspense account pending resolution of a dispute. Such warrants shall be issued by the United States Treasury not later than 10 days after receipt of such moneys by the Treasury. Moneys placed in a suspense account which are determined to be payable to a State shall be made not later than the last business day of the month in which such dispute is resolved. Any such amount placed in a suspense account pending resolution shall bear interest until the dispute is resolved. (b) In determining the amount of payments to the States under this section, the amount of such payments shall not be reduced by any administrative or other costs incurred by the United States. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 35, 41 Stat. 450; May 27, 1947, ch. 83, 61 Stat. 119; Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 527, 64 Stat. 402; Pub. L. 85-88, Sec. 2, July 10, 1957, 71 Stat. 282; Pub. L. 85-508, Secs. 6(k), 28(b), July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 343, 351; Pub. L. 94-273, Sec. 6(2), Apr. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 377; Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 9, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1089; Pub. L. 94-422, title III, Sec. 301, Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1323; Pub. L. 94-579, title III, Sec. 317(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2770; Pub. L. 97-451, title I, Secs. 104(a), 111(g), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2451, 2456; Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5109, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-261; Pub. L. 100-443, Sec. 5(b), Sept. 22, 1988, 102 Stat. 1768; Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10201, Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 407; Pub. L. 106-393, title V, Sec. 503, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1624.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 97-451, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2447, which is classified generally to chapter 29 (Sec. 1701 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of this title and Tables. The Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 91-581, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1566, which is classified principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables. The Reclamation Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (Sec. 371 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION "Section 7433(b) of title 10" substituted in subsec. (a) for "the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 813), as amended June 30, 1938 (52 Stat. 1252)", which was classified to section 524 of former Title 34, Navy, on authority of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 49(b), 70A Stat. 640, the first section of which enacted Title 10, Armed Forces. Provisions of subsec. (a) which authorized the payment of monies to the Territory of Alaska were omitted as superseded by the provisions authorizing the payment of monies to the State of Alaska. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 2000 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-393 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) related to deductions for administration from the amount to be paid to States under this section or under other laws requiring payment to a State of revenues derived from the leasing of onshore lands owned by the United States for the production of the same types of minerals leasable under this chapter or of geothermal steam. 1993 - Pub. L. 103-66 struck out last sentence, designated remaining provisions as subsec. (a) and in first sentence inserted "and, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section," before "50 per centum", and added subsec. (b). Prior to amendment, last sentence read as follows: "In determining the amount of payments to States under this section, the amount of such payments shall not be reduced by any administrative or other costs incurred by the United States." 1988 - Pub. L. 100-443 struck out "notwithstanding the provisions of section 20 thereof," before "shall be paid". 1987 - Pub. L. 100-203 inserted at end "In determining the amount of payments to States under this section, the amount of such payments shall not be reduced by any administrative or other costs incurred by the United States." 1983 - Pub. L. 97-451, Sec. 111(g), inserted reference to interest charges collected under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982. Pub. L. 97-451, Sec. 104(a), struck out "as soon as practicable after March 31 and September 30 of each year" after "Secretary of the Treasury" and "of those from Alaska", and inserted at end provisions directing that payments to States be made not later than the last business day of the month in which such moneys are warranted by the United States Treasury to the Secretary as having been received, that warrants be issued by the Treasury not later than 10 days after receipt of the money by the Treasury, that moneys placed in a suspense account which are determined to be payable to a State be made not later than the last business day of the month in which a dispute is resolved, and that amounts placed in a suspense account pending resolution bear interest until the dispute is resolved. 1976 - Pub. L. 94-579 substituted provisions setting forth determination of amount, time for payments, and manner of expenditure by the States of all moneys received from sales, etc., under provisions of this chapter and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, and proviso relating to naval petroleum reserve moneys, for provisions setting forth determination of amount and time for payment to the States of all moneys received from sales, etc., under the provisions of this chapter, and provisos relating to naval petroleum reserve moneys, additional moneys from sales, etc., under this chapter and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, and expenditure of State oil shale funds. Pub. L. 94-422 inserted proviso that all moneys paid to any State from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of oil shale in public lands may be used by any State for planning, construction, and maintenance of public facilities as legislature of State may direct. Pub. L. 94-377 substituted "40 per centum thereof shall be paid into, reserved" for "52 1/2 per centum thereof shall be paid into, reserved", inserted "and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, notwithstanding the provisions of section 20 thereof" before "shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States", "and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970" before "from lands within the naval petroleum reserves" and before "not otherwise disposed of by this section", and provisos relating to the payment of an additional 12 1/2 per centum of all money received from lands under provisions of this chapter and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to the State within whose boundaries the lands are located, to be used for construction of public facilities, and relating to the use of funds received by Colorado and Utah under the specified leases. Pub. L. 94-273 substituted "March" for "December" and "September" for "June". 1958 - Pub. L. 85-508, Secs. 6(k), 28(b), struck out provisions which related to disposition of proceeds or income derived by the United States from mineral school sections in the Territory of Alaska and substituted ", and of those from Alaska 52 1/2 per centum thereof shall be paid to the State of Alaska for disposition by the legislators thereof" for ", and of those from Alaska 52 1/2 per centum thereof shall be paid to the Territory of Alaska for disposition by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska" before proviso. 1957 - Pub. L. 85-88 inserted ", and of those from Alaska 52 1/2 per centum thereof shall be paid to the Territory of Alaska for disposition by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska" before proviso. 1950 - Act Aug. 3, 1950, in providing that payments to States be made bi-annually instead of annually, substituted "as soon as practicable after December 31 and June 30 of each year" for "after the expiration of each fiscal year". 1947 - Act May 27, 1947, extended provisions by allocating 37 1/2 % of the money received from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of public lands to the Territory of Alaska, for the construction and maintenance of public schools or other public educational institutions and inserted provisions relating to disposition of proceeds or income derived by the United States from mineral school sections in the Territory of Alaska. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1983 AMENDMENT Amendment by section 104(a) of Pub. L. 97-451 applicable with respect to payments received by the Secretary of the Treasury after Oct. 1, 1983, unless the Secretary by rule, prescribes an earlier effective date, see section 104(c) of Pub. L. 97-451, set out as an Effective Date note under section 1714 of this title. SAVINGS PROVISION Amendment by Pub. L. 94-579 not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. L. 94-579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands. FINDINGS Pub. L. 106-393, title V, Sec. 502, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1624, provided that: "The Congress finds the following: "(1) Section 10201 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-66; 107 Stat. 407) amended section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191) to change the sharing of onshore mineral revenues and revenues from geothermal steam from a 50:50 split between the Federal Government and the States to a complicated formula that entailed deducting from the State share of leasing revenues '50 percent of the portion of the enacted appropriations of the Department of the Interior and any other agency during the preceding fiscal year allocable to the administration of all laws providing for the leasing of any onshore lands or interest in land owned by the United States for the production of the same types of minerals leasable under this Act or of geothermal steam, and to enforcement of such laws * * *'. "(2) There is no legislative record to suggest a sound public policy rationale for deducting prior-year administrative expenses from the sharing of current-year receipts, indicating that this change was made primarily for budget scoring reasons. "(3) The system put in place by this change in law has proved difficult to administer and has given rise to disputes between the Federal Government and the States as to the nature of allocable expenses. Federal accounting systems have proven to be poorly suited to breaking down administrative costs in the manner required by the law. Different Federal agencies implementing this law have used varying methodologies to identify allocable costs, resulting in an inequitable distribution of costs during fiscal years 1994 through 1996. In November 1997, the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior found that 'the congressionally approved method for cost sharing deductions effective in fiscal year 1997 may not accurately compute the deductions'. "(4) Given the lack of a substantive rationale for the 1993 change in law and the complexity and administrative burden involved, a return to the sharing formula prior to the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 [Aug. 10, 1993] is justified." FUNDS HELD BY COLORADO AND UTAH FROM INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OIL SHALE TEST LEASES Section 317(b) of Pub. L. 94-579 provided that: "Funds now held pursuant to said section 35 [this section] by the States of Colorado and Utah separately from the Department of the Interior oil shale test leases known as C-A; C-B; U-A and U-B shall be used by such States and subdivisions as the legislature of each State may direct giving priority to those subdivisions socially or economically impacted by the development of minerals leased under this Act for (1) planning, (2) construction and maintenance of public facilities, and (3) provision of public services." ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Effectiveness of amendment by Pub. L. 85-508 was dependent on admission of Alaska into the Union under sections 6(k) and 8(b) of Pub. L. 85-508. Admission was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508. See notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; REVENUES FROM LEASES Disposition of revenues from leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see sections 1337 and 1338 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 241, 275, 285, 292, 355, 541f, 1019, 1721, 1735 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435, 7439; title 16 sections 460ll-3, 470h; title 31 section 6903; title 43 section 1747. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 191a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 191a. Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases -STATUTE- (a) Distribution of late payment charges Any interest or other charges paid to the United States by reason of the late payment of any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount due to the United States under any lease issued by the United States for the extraction of oil, gas, coal, or any other mineral, or for geothermal steam, shall be deposited in the same account and distributed to the same recipients, in the same manner, as such royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount. (b) Effective date Subsection (a) of this section shall apply with respect to any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a) of this section, which is paid to the United States on or after July 1, 1988. (c) Prohibition against recoupment Any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a) of this section, which was paid to the United States before July 1, 1988, and distributed to any State or other recipient is hereby deemed to be authorized and approved as of the date of payment or distribution, and no part of any such payment or distribution shall be recouped from the State or other recipient. This subsection shall not apply to interest or other charges paid in connection with any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount determined not to be owing to the United States. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 100-524, Sec. 7, Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2607.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of the Congaree Swamp National Monument Expansion and Wilderness Act, and not as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 191b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 191b. Collection of unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by lessees -STATUTE- Beginning in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, the Secretary shall take appropriate action to collect unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by Federal and Indian mineral lessees and other royalty payors on amounts received in settlement or other resolution of disputes under, and for partial or complete termination of, sales agreements for minerals from Federal and Indian leases. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 104-134, title I, Sec. 101(c) [title I], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321-156, 1321-167; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104-140, Sec. 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- SIMILAR PROVISIONS Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation act: Pub. L. 103-332, title I, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 2508. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 192 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 192. Payment of royalties in oil or gas; sale of such oil or gas -STATUTE- All royalty accruing to the United States under any oil or gas lease or permit under this chapter on demand of the Secretary of the Interior shall be paid in oil or gas. Upon granting any oil or gas lease under this chapter, and from time to time thereafter during said lease, the Secretary of the Interior shall, except whenever in his judgment it is desirable to retain the same for the use of the United States, offer for sale for such period as he may determine, upon notice and advertisement on sealed bids or at public auction, all royalty oil and gas accruing or reserved to the United States under such lease. Such advertisement and sale shall reserve to the Secretary of the Interior the right to reject all bids whenever within his judgment the interest of the United States demands; and in cases where no satisfactory bid is received or where the accepted bidder fails to complete the purchase, or where the Secretary of the Interior shall determine that it is unwise in the public interest to accept the offer of the highest bidder, the Secretary of the Interior, within his discretion, may readvertise such royalty for sale, or sell at private sale at not less than the market price for such period, or accept the value thereof from the lessee: Provided, That inasmuch as the public interest will be served by the sale of royalty oil to refineries not having their own source of supply for crude oil, the Secretary of the Interior, when he determines that sufficient supplies of crude oil are not available in the open market to such refineries, is authorized and directed to grant preference to such refineries in the sale of oil under the provisions of this section, for processing or use in such refineries and not for resale in kind, and in so doing may sell to such refineries at private sale at not less than the market price any royalty oil accruing or reserved to the United States under leases issued pursuant to this chapter: Provided further, That in selling such royalty oil the Secretary of the Interior may at his discretion prorate such oil among such refineries in the area in which the oil is produced: Provided, however, That pending the making of a permanent contract for the sale of any royalty, oil or gas as herein provided, the Secretary of the Interior may sell the current product at private sale, at not less than the market price: And provided further, That any royalty, oil, or gas may be sold at not less than the market price at private sale to any department or agency of the United States. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 36, 41 Stat. 451; July 13, 1946, ch. 574, 60 Stat. 533.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1946 - Act July 13, 1946, inserted first two provisos which were enacted in order to assist small business enterprise by encouraging the operation of oil refineries not having an adequate supply of crude oil. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; ROYALTIES FROM LEASES Payment of royalties from mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1337 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 192a, 192b, 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 192a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 192a. Cancellation or modification of contracts -STATUTE- Where, under any existing contract entered into pursuant to the first proviso in the second paragraph of section 192 of this title, any refinery is required to pay a premium price for the purchase of Government royalty oil, such refinery may, at its option, by written notice to the Secretary of the Interior, elect either - (1) to terminate such contract, the termination to take place at the end of the calendar month following the month in which such notice is given; or (2) to retain such contract with the modifications, that (a) the price, on and after March 1, 1949, shall be as defined in the contract, without premium payments, (b) any credit thereby resulting from past premium payments shall be added to the refinery's account, and (c) the Secretary may, at his option, elect to terminate the contract as so modified, such termination to take place at the end of the third calendar month following the month in which written notice thereof is given by the Secretary. -SOURCE- (Sept. 1, 1949, ch. 529, Sec. 1, 63 Stat. 682.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 192b, 192c of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 192b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 192b. Application to contracts -STATUTE- The provisions of sections 192a to 192c of this title shall apply to all existing contracts for the purchase of Government royalty oil entered into after July 13, 1946, and prior to September 1, 1949, irrespective of whether a determination of preference status was made in connection with the award of such contracts, but shall not apply to any such contract which subsequent to its award has been transferred, through the acquisition of stock interests or other transactions, to the ownership or control of a refinery ineligible for a preference under section 192 of this title, and the regulations in force thereunder at the time of such transfer. -SOURCE- (Sept. 1, 1949, ch. 529, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 682.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 192c of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 192c 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 192c. Rules and regulations governing issuance of certain leases; disposition of receipts -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized under general rules and regulations to be prescribed by him to issue leases or permits for the exploration, development, and utilization of the mineral deposits, other than those subject to the provisions of chapter 7 of this title, in those lands added to the Shasta National Forest by the Act of March 19, 1948 (Public Law 449, Eightieth Congress), which were acquired with funds of the United States or lands received in exchange therefor: Provided, That any permit or lease of such deposits in lands administered by the Secretary of Agriculture shall be issued only with his consent and subject to such conditions as he may prescribe to insure the adequate utilization of the lands for the purposes set forth in the Act of March 19, 1948: And provided further, That all receipts derived from leases or permits issued under the authority of sections 192a to 192c of this title shall be paid into the same funds or accounts in the Treasury and shall be distributed in the same manner as prescribed for other receipts from the lands affected by the lease or permit, the intention of this provision being that sections 192a to 192c of this title shall not affect the distribution of receipts pursuant to legislation applicable to such lands. -SOURCE- (Sept. 1, 1949, ch. 529, Sec. 3, 63 Stat. 683.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of March 19, 1948 (Public Law 449, Eightieth Congress), referred to in text, is act Mar. 19, 1948, ch. 139, 62 Stat. 83. See Shasta National Forest codification note set out under sections 486a to 486w of Title 16, Conservation. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior under this section, with respect to use and disposal from lands under jurisdiction of Secretary of Agriculture of those mineral materials which Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to dispose of from other lands under his jurisdiction under sections 601 to 604 and 611 to 615 of this title, see Pub. L. 86-509, June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205, set out as a Transfer of Functions from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Agriculture note under section 2201 of Title 7, Agriculture. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 192b of this title; title 16 section 460q-5. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 193 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 193. Disposition of deposits of coal, and so forth -STATUTE- The deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, and gas, herein referred to, in lands valuable for such minerals, including lands and deposits in Lander, Wyoming, coal entries numbered 18 to 49, inclusive, shall be subject to disposition only in the form and manner provided in this chapter, except as provided in sections 1716 and 1719 of title 43, and except as to valid claims existent on February 25, 1920, and thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims may be perfected under such laws, including discovery. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 37, 41 Stat. 451; Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 5, 44 Stat. 1058; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 11, 60 Stat. 957; Pub. L. 95-554, Sec. 4, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2074.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was from act Feb. 25, 1920, in which words now reading "in Lander, Wyoming, coal entries numbered 18 to 49, inclusive," originally read "described in the joint resolution entitled 'Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit the continuation of coal mining operations on certain lands in Wyoming,' approved August 12, 1912, (Thirty-seven Statutes at Large p. 1346)." The change was effected by interpolation, in lieu of the reference to the 1912 resolution, the actual description of lands contained in said resolution. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1978 - Pub. L. 95-554 provided for disposition of minerals as provided in sections 1716 and 1719 of title 43. 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, excluded from section 5 of act Feb. 7, 1927, the incorporation, by reference, of section 181 of this title, and reenacted inclusion of deposits of potassium. 1927 - Act Feb. 7, 1927, included deposits of potassium. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 193a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 193a. Preference right of United States to purchase coal for Army and Navy; price for coal; civil actions; jurisdiction -STATUTE- The United States shall, at all times, have the preference right to purchase so much of the product of any mine or mines opened upon the lands sold under the provisions of this Act, as may be necessary for the use of the Army and Navy, and at such reasonable and remunerative price as may be fixed by the President; but the producers of any coal so purchased who may be dissatisfied with the price thus fixed shall have the right to prosecute suits against the United States in the United States Court of Federal Claims for the recovery of any additional sum or sums they may claim as justly due upon such purchase. -SOURCE- (May 28, 1908, ch. 211, Sec. 2, 35 Stat. 424; Pub. L. 97-164, title I, Sec. 160(a)(10), Apr. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 48; Pub. L. 102-572, title IX, Sec. 902(b)(1), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4516.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This Act, referred to in text, is act May 28, 1908, ch. 211, 35 Stat. 424. Sections 1, 3, and 4 of this Act related to consolidation of claims permitted and the limit of acreage, prohibition against unlawful trusts, etc., and contents of patents, respectively, and are not classified to the Code. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 453 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1992 - Pub. L. 102-572 substituted "United States Court of Federal Claims" for "United States Claims Court". 1982 - Pub. L. 97-164 substituted "United States Claims Court" for "Court of Claims". EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1992 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 102-572 effective Oct. 29, 1992, see section 911 of Pub. L. 102-572, set out as a note under section 171 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1982 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 97-164 effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 402 of Pub. L. 97-164, set out as a note under section 171 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 194 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 194. Repealed. Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 644 -MISC1- Section, acts Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 38, 41 Stat. 451; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145, related to fees and commissions of registers (successors to consolidated offices of registers and receivers), the predecessors of managers. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 195 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 195. Enforcement -STATUTE- (a) Violations It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) to organize or participate in any scheme, arrangement, plan, or agreement to circumvent or defeat the provisions of this chapter or its implementing regulations, or (2) to seek to obtain or to obtain any money or property by means of false statements of material facts or by failing to state material facts concerning: (A) the value of any lease or portion thereof issued or to be issued under this chapter; (B) the availability of any land for leasing under this chapter; (C) the ability of any person to obtain leases under this chapter; or (D) the provisions of this chapter and its implementing regulations. (b) Penalty Any person who knowingly violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500,000, imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. (c) Civil actions Whenever it shall appear that any person is engaged, or is about to engage, in any act which constitutes or will constitute a violation of subsection (a) of this section, the Attorney General may institute a civil action in the district court of the United States for the judicial district in which the defendant resides or in which the violation occurred or in which the lease or land involved is located, for a temporary restraining order, injunction, civil penalty of not more than $100,000 for each violation, or other appropriate remedy, including but not limited to, a prohibition from participation in exploration, leasing, or development of any Federal mineral, or any combination of the foregoing. (d) Corporations (1) Whenever a corporation or other entity is subject to civil or criminal action under this section, any officer, employee, or agent of such corporation or entity who knowingly authorized, ordered, or carried out the proscribed activity shall be subject to the same action. (2) Whenever any officer, employee, or agent of a corporation or other entity is subject to civil or criminal action under this section for activity conducted on behalf of the corporation or other entity, the corporation or other entity shall be subject to the same action, unless it is shown that the officer, employee, or agent was acting without the knowledge or consent of the corporation or other entity. (e) Remedies, fines, and imprisonment The remedies, penalties, fines, and imprisonment prescribed in this section shall be concurrent and cumulative and the exercise of one shall not preclude the exercise of the others. Further, the remedies, penalties, fines, and imprisonment prescribed in this section shall be in addition to any other remedies, penalties, fines, and imprisonment afforded by any other law or regulation. (f) State civil actions (1) A State may commence a civil action under subsection (c) of this section against any person conducting activity within the State in violation of this section. Civil actions brought by a State shall only be brought in the United States district court for the judicial district in which the defendant resides or in which the violation occurred or in which the lease or land involved is located. The district court shall have jurisdiction, without regard to the amount in controversy or the citizenship of the parties, to order appropriate remedies and penalties as described in subsection (c) of this section. (2) A State shall notify the Attorney General of the United States of any civil action filed by the State under this subsection within 30 days of filing of the action. The Attorney General of the United States shall notify a State of any civil action arising from activity conducted within that State filed by the Attorney General under this subsection within 30 days of filing of the action. (3) Any civil penalties recovered by a State under this subsection shall be retained by the State and may be expended in such manner and for such purposes as the State deems appropriate. If a civil action is jointly brought by the Attorney General and a State, by more than one State or by the Attorney General and more than one State, any civil penalties recovered as a result of the joint action shall be shared by the parties bringing the action in the manner determined by the court rendering judgment in such action. (4) If a State has commenced a civil action against a person conducting activity within the State in violation of this section, the Attorney General may join in such action but may not institute a separate action arising from the same activity under this section. If the Attorney General has commenced a civil action against a person conducting activity within a State in violation of this section, that State may join in such action but may not institute a separate action arising from the same activity under this section. (5) Nothing in this section shall deprive a State of jurisdiction to enforce its own civil and criminal laws against any person who may also be subject to civil and criminal action under this section. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 41, as added Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5108, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-260.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 196 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS -HEAD- Sec. 196. Cooperative agreements; delegation of authority -STATUTE- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for fiscal year 1992 and each year thereafter, the Secretary of the Interior or his designee is authorized to - (a) enter into a cooperative agreement or agreements with any State or Indian tribe to share royalty management information, to carry out inspection, auditing, investigation or enforcement (not including the collection of royalties, civil penalties, or other payments) activities in cooperation with the Secretary, except that the Secretary shall not enter into such cooperative agreement with a State with respect to any such activities on Indian lands except with the permission of the Indian tribe involved; and (b) upon written request of any State, to delegate to the State all or part of the authorities and responsibilities of the Secretary under the authorizing leasing statutes, leases, and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto to conduct audits, investigations, and inspections, except that the Secretary shall not undertake such a delegation with respect to any Indian lands except with permission of the Indian tribe involved, with respect to any lease authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or geothermal steam on any Federal lands or Indian lands within the State or with respect to any lease or portion of a lease subject to section 1337(g) of title 43, on the same terms and conditions as those authorized for oil and gas leases under sections 1732, 1733, 1735, and 1736 of this title and the regulations duly promulgated with respect thereto: Provided further, That section 1734 of this title shall apply to leases authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or geothermal steam on any Federal lands, or to any lease or portion of a lease subject to section 1337(g) of title 43: Provided further, That the Secretary shall compensate any State or Indian tribe for those costs which are necessary to carry out activities conducted pursuant to such cooperative agreement or delegation. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 102-154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1001.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER II - COAL 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 201 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 201. Leases and exploration -STATUTE- (a) Division into tracts; bidding and award; negotiated sales on exercise of right-of-way permits; leases to public agencies; fair market value of leases; leases in National Forests; comprehensive land-use plans; notice of proposed lease offering (1) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to divide any lands subject to this chapter which have been classified for coal leasing into leasing tracts of such size as he finds appropriate and in the public interest and which will permit the mining of all coal which can be economically extracted in such tract and thereafter he shall, in his discretion, upon the request of any qualified applicant or on his own motion, from time to time, offer such lands for leasing and shall award leases thereon by competitive bidding: Provided, That notwithstanding the competitive bidding requirement of this section, the Secretary may, subject to such conditions which he deems appropriate, negotiate the sale at fair market value of coal the removal of which is necessary and incidental to the exercise of a right-of-way permit issued pursuant to title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 [43 U.S.C. 1761 et seq.]. No less than 50 per centum of the total acreage offered for lease by the Secretary in any one year shall be leased under a system of deferred bonus payment. Upon default or cancellation of any coal lease for which bonus payments are due, any unpaid remainder of the bid shall be immediately payable to the United States. A reasonable number of leasing tracts shall be reserved and offered for lease in accordance with this section to public bodies, including Federal agencies, rural electric cooperatives, or nonprofit corporations controlled by any of such entities: Provided, That the coal so offered for lease shall be for use by such entity or entities in implementing a definite plan to produce energy for their own use or for sale to their members or customers (except for short-term sales to others). No bid shall be accepted which is less than the fair market value, as determined by the Secretary, of the coal subject to the lease. Prior to his determination of the fair market value of the coal subject to the lease, the Secretary shall give opportunity for and consideration to public comments on the fair market value. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the Secretary to make public his judgment as to the fair market value of the coal to be leased, or the comments he receives thereon prior to the issuance of the lease. He is authorized, in awarding leases for coal lands improved and occupied or claimed in good faith, prior to February 25, 1920, to consider and recognize equitable rights of such occupants or claimants. (2)(A) The Secretary shall not issue a lease or leases under the terms of this chapter to any person, association, corporation, or any subsidiary, affiliate, or persons controlled by or under common control with such person, association, or corporation, where any such entity holds a lease or leases issued by the United States to coal deposits and has held such lease or leases for a period of ten years when such entity is not, except as provided for in section 207(b) of this title, producing coal from the lease deposits in commercial quantities. In computing the ten-year period referred to in the preceding sentence, periods of time prior to August 4, 1976, shall not be counted. (B) Any lease proposal which permits surface coal mining within the boundaries of a National Forest which the Secretary proposes to issue under this chapter shall be submitted to the Governor of each State within which the coal deposits subject to such lease are located. No such lease may be issued under this chapter before the expiration of the sixty-day period beginning on the date of such submission. If any Governor to whom a proposed lease was submitted under this subparagraph objects to the issuance of such lease, such lease shall not be issued before the expiration of the six-month period beginning on the date the Secretary is notified by the Governor of such objection. During such six-month period, the Governor may submit to the Secretary a statement of reasons why such lease should not be issued and the Secretary shall, on the basis of such statement, reconsider the issuance of such lease. (3)(A)(i) No lease sale shall be held unless the lands containing the coal deposits have been included in a comprehensive land-use plan and such sale is compatible with such plan. The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare such land-use plans on lands under his responsibility where such plans have not been previously prepared. The Secretary of the Interior shall inform the Secretary of Agriculture of substantial development interest in coal leasing on lands within the National Forest System. Upon receipt of such notification from the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare a comprehensive land-use plan for such areas where such plans have not been previously prepared. The plan of the Secretary of Agriculture shall take into consideration the proposed coal development in these lands: Provided, That where the Secretary of the Interior finds that because of non-Federal interest in the surface or because the coal resources are insufficient to justify the preparation costs of a Federal comprehensive land-use plan, the lease sale can be held if the lands containing the coal deposits have been included in either a comprehensive land-use plan prepared by the State within which the lands are located or a land use analysis prepared by the Secretary of the Interior. (ii) In preparing such land-use plans, the Secretary of the Interior or, in the case of lands within the National Forest System, the Secretary of Agriculture, or in the case of a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that because of non-Federal interests in the surface or insufficient Federal coal, no Federal comprehensive land-use plans can be appropriately prepared, the responsible State entity shall consult with appropriate State agencies and local governments and the general public and shall provide an opportunity for public hearing on proposed plans prior to their adoption, if requested by any person having an interest which is, or may be, adversely affected by the adoption of such plans. (iii) Leases covering lands the surface of which is under the jurisdiction of any Federal agency other than the Department of the Interior may be issued only upon consent of the other Federal agency and upon such conditions as it may prescribe with respect to the use and protection of the nonmineral interests in those lands. (B) Each land-use plan prepared by the Secretary (or in the case of lands within the National Forest System, the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to subparagraph (A)(i)) shall include an assessment of the amount of coal deposits in such land, identifying the amount of such coal which is recoverable by deep mining operations and the amount of such coal which is recoverable by surface mining operations. (C) Prior to issuance of any coal lease, the Secretary shall consider effects which mining of the proposed lease might have on an impacted community or area, including, but not limited to, impacts on the environment, on agricultural and other economic activities, and on public services. Prior to issuance of a lease, the Secretary shall evaluate and compare the effects of recovering coal by deep mining, by surface mining, and by any other method to determine which method or methods or sequence of methods achieves the maximum economic recovery of the coal within the proposed leasing tract. This evaluation and comparison by the Secretary shall be in writing but shall not prohibit the issuance of a lease; however, no mining operating plan shall be approved which is not found to achieve the maximum economic recovery of the coal within the tract. Public hearings in the area shall be held by the Secretary prior to the lease sale. (D) No lease sale shall be held until after the notice of the proposed offering for lease has been given once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the lands are situated in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. (E) Each coal lease shall contain provisions requiring compliance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1151-1175) [33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.] and the Clean Air Act [42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.]. (b) Exploration licenses; term; rights and conditions; violations (1) The Secretary may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, issue to any person an exploration license. No person may conduct coal exploration for commercial purposes for any coal on lands subject to this chapter without such an exploration license. Each exploration license shall be for a term of not more than two years and shall be subject to a reasonable fee. An exploration license shall confer no right to a lease under this chapter. The issuance of exploration licenses shall not preclude the Secretary from issuing coal leases at such times and locations and to such persons as he deems appropriate. No exploration license will be issued for any land on which a coal lease has been issued. A separate exploration license will be required for exploration in each State. An application for an exploration license shall identify general areas and probable methods of exploration. Each exploration license shall contain such reasonable conditions as the Secretary may require, including conditions to insure the protection of the environment, and shall be subject to all applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations. Upon violation of any such conditions or laws the Secretary may revoke the exploration license. (2) A licensee may not cause substantial disturbance to the natural land surface. He may not remove any coal for sale but may remove a reasonable amount of coal from the lands subject to this chapter included under his license for analysis and study. A licensee must comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Federal agency having jurisdiction over the surface of the lands subject to this chapter. Exploration licenses covering lands the surface of which is under the jurisdiction of any Federal agency other than the Department of the Interior may be issued only upon such conditions as it may prescribe with respect to the use and protection of the nonmineral interests in those lands. (3) The licensee shall furnish to the Secretary copies of all data (including, but not limited to, geological, geophyscal,(!1) and core drilling analyses) obtained during such exploration. The Secretary shall maintain the confidentiality of all data so obtained until after the areas involved have been leased or until such time as he determines that making the data available to the public would not damage the competitive position of the licensee, whichever comes first. (4) Any person who willfully conducts coal exploration for commercial purposes on lands subject to this chapter without an exploration license issued hereunder shall be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 for each day of violation. All data collected by said person on any Federal lands as a result of such violation shall be made immediately available to the Secretary, who shall make the data available to the public as soon as it is practicable. No penalty under this subsection shall be assessed unless such person is given notice and opportunity for a hearing with respect to such violation. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 2(a), (b), 41 Stat. 438; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 289; Pub. L. 86-252, Sec. 2, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 490; Pub. L. 88-526, Sec. 2(a), (b), Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 710; Pub. L. 94-377, Secs. 2-4, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1083, 1085; Pub. L. 95-554, Sec. 2, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2073.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This section, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, as amended, which is comprised of subsecs. (a) to (d). Subsecs. (a) and (b) of section 2 comprise this section, subsec. (c) of section 2 comprises section 202 of this title, and subsec. (d) of section 2, as added by section 5(b) of Pub. L. 94-377, comprises section 202a of this title. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is Pub. L. 94-579, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, as amended. Title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 is classified generally to subchapter V (Sec. 1761 et seq.) of chapter 35 of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of Title 43 and Tables. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3)(E), is act June 30, 1948, ch. 758, 62 Stat. 1155, formerly classified to chapter 23 (Sec. 1151 et seq.) of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, which was completely revised by Pub. L. 92-500, Sec. 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 816, and is classified generally to chapter 26 (Sec. 1251 et seq.) of Title 33. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1251 of Title 33 and Tables. The Clean Air Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3)(E), is act July 14, 1955, ch. 360, 69 Stat. 322, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 85 (Sec. 7401 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7401 of Title 42 and Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION Section is comprised of subsecs. (a) and (b) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, as amended by section 1 of act June 3, 1948. Subsec. (c) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, is classified to section 202 of this title. Subsec. (d) of said section 2, as added by Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 5(b), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1086, is classified to section 202a of this title. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1978 - Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 95-554 authorized negotiated fair market value sales of coal when exercising Federal land policy and management right-of-way permits. 1976 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 2, designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted provisions authorizing the division of any lands subject to this chapter which have been classified for coal leasing into tracts as the Secretary finds appropriate, in the public interest and will permit the mining of all economically extractable coal, such leases to be awarded by competitive bidding for provisions authorizing the division of classified or unclassified lands into tracts of forty acres, or multiples thereof, in such form as, in the Secretary's opinion will permit the most economical mining, such leases to be awarded by competitive bidding or by such other method adopted by general regulation, inserted provisions relating to deferred bonus payments leasing, leasing to public agencies, and to the fair market value of leases, struck out provision for notice of proposed offering for lease in a newspaper of general circulation prior to approval or issuance of a competitive lease of coal, and added pars. (2) and (3). Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 4, designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted provisions relating to the issuance, term and conditions of exploration licenses for provisions relating to the issuance of prospecting permits for a term of two years, for not exceeding 5125 acres, with an extension period of two years if the permittee has been unable, with the exercise of reasonable diligence to determine the existence or workability of coal deposits and desires further exploration, and added pars. (2) to (4). 1964 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 88-526, Sec. 2(a), removed limitation on a single competitive lease by striking out "but in no case exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in any one leasing tract," after "such tracts,". Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 88-526, Sec. 2(b), increased limitation on the area carried by a prospecting permit from 2,560 to 5,120 acres. 1959 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86-252 struck out "outside of the Territory of Alaska," after "United States,". 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, amended section generally, dividing it into subsections (a) to (c) and making minor technical changes. Subsecs. (a) and (b) comprise this section and subsec. (c) is set out as section 202 of this title. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1976 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 99-190, Sec. 101(d) [title III, Sec. 320], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1224, 1266, provided that: "The provisions of section 2(a)(2)(A) of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 (41 Stat. 437) [subsec. (a)(2)(A) of this section], as amended by section 3 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 1083) [Pub. L. 94-377, see 1976 Amendment note above] shall not take effect until December 31, 1986." SAVINGS PROVISION Section 4 of Pub. L. 94-377 provided that the amendment made by that section is subject to valid existing rights. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior, referred to subsec. (a)(3)(D), to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal leases transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. -MISC2- STUDY OF COAL LEASES BY DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT Section 10 of Pub. L. 94-377 provided that the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment conduct a complete study of coal leases entered into by the United States under sections 201, 202, and 202a of this title, which study was to include an analysis of all mining activities, present and potential value of these leases, receipts to the Federal Government from these leases, and recommendations as to the feasibility of the use of deep mining technology in leased areas, with the results of his study to be submitted to Congress within one year after Aug. 4, 1976. COAL MINING ON AREAS OF NATIONAL PARK, WILDLIFE, WILDERNESS PRESERVATION, TRAIL, SCENIC RIVERS, SYSTEMS NOT AUTHORIZED Section 16 of Pub. L. 94-377 provided that: "Nothing in this Act [see Short Title of 1976 Amendment note under section 181 of this title], or the Mineral Lands Leasing Act [this chapter] and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands [section 351 et seq. of this title] which are amended by this Act, shall be construed as authorizing coal mining on any area of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the National System of Trails, and the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, including study rivers designated under section 5(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act [section 1276(a) of Title 16, Conservation]." ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 202, 208, 208-1, 1262, 1263, 1272, 1273, 1304 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435; title 16 section 460ll-3. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. Probably should be "geophysical,". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 201-1 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 201-1. Repealed. Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1086 -MISC1- Section, Pub. L. 88-526, Sec. 2(c), (d), Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 710, permitted the entering into of contracts for collective prospecting, development or operation of coalfields by lessees for the purpose of conserving natural resources. SAVINGS PROVISION Section 5(a) of Pub. L. 94-377 provided that the repeal of this section is subject to valid existing rights. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 201a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 201a. Repealed. June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 8, 62 Stat. 291 -MISC1- Section, act Mar. 9, 1928, ch. 159, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 251, related to extension of coal prospecting permits. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 201b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 201b. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, act Mar. 9, 1928, ch. 159, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 251, provided for extension of coal permits already expired for a period of two years from Mar. 9, 1928. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 202 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 202. Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit -STATUTE- No company or corporation operating a common-carrier railroad shall be given or hold a permit or lease under the provisions of this chapter for any coal deposits except for its own use for railroad purposes; and such limitations of use shall be expressed in all permits and leases issued to such companies or corporations; and no such company or corporation shall receive or hold under permit or lease more than ten thousand two hundred and forty acres in the aggregate nor more than one permit or lease for each two hundred miles of its railroad lines served or to be served from such coal deposits exclusive of spurs or switches and exclusive of branch lines built to connect the leased coal with the railroad, and also exclusive of parts of the railroad operated mainly by power produced otherwise than by steam. Nothing in this section and section 201 of this title shall preclude such a railroad of less than two hundred miles in length from securing one permit or lease thereunder but no railroad shall hold a permit or lease for lands in any State in which it does not operate main or branch lines. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 2(c), 41 Stat. 438; June 13, 1944, ch. 244, 58 Stat. 275; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 289.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section is comprised of subsec. (c) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, as amended by section 1 of act June 3, 1948. Subsecs. (a) and (b) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, are classified to section 201 of this title. Subsec. (d) of said section 2, as added by Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 5(b), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1086, is classified to section 202a of this title. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, reenacted this section without change except to make it subsec. (c) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920. 1944 - Act June 13, 1944, inserted "more than ten thousand two hundred and forty acres in the aggregate nor" before "more than one permit", substituted "railroad lines served or to be served from such coal deposits" for "railroad line within the State in which such property is situated,", and prohibited a railroad from holding a permit or lease for lands in any State in which it did not operate main or branch lines. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 208 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 202a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 202a. Consolidation of coal leases into logical mining unit -STATUTE- (1) Approval by Secretary; public hearing; definition The Secretary, upon determining that maximum economic recovery of the coal deposit or deposits is served thereby, may approve the consolidation of coal leases into a logical mining unit. Such consolidation may only take place after a public hearing, if requested by any person whose interest is or may be adversely affected. A logical mining unit is an area of land in which the coal resources can be developed in an efficient, economical, and orderly manner as a unit with due regard to conservation of coal reserves and other resources. A logical mining unit may consist of one or more Federal leaseholds, and may include intervening or adjacent lands in which the United States does not own the coal resources, but all the lands in a logical mining unit must be under the effective control of a single operator, be able to be developed and operated as a single operation and be contiguous. (2) Mining plan; requirements After the Secretary has approved the establishment of a logical mining unit, any mining plan approved for that unit must require such diligent development, operation, and production that the reserves of the entire unit will be mined within a period established by the Secretary which shall not be more than forty years. (3) Conditions for approval In approving a logical mining unit, the Secretary may provide, among other things, that (i) diligent development, continuous operation, and production on any Federal lease or non-Federal land in the logical mining unit shall be construed as occurring on all Federal leases in that logical mining unit, and (ii) the rentals and royalties for all Federal leases in a logical mining unit may be combined, and advanced royalties paid for any lease within a logical mining unit may be credited against such combined royalties. (4) Amendment to lease The Secretary may amend the provisions of any lease included in a logical mining unit so that mining under that lease will be consistent with the requirements imposed on that logical mining unit. (5) Leases issued before date of enactment of this Act Leases issued before the date of enactment of this Act may be included with the consent of all lessees in such logical mining unit, and, if so included, shall be subject to the provisions of this section. (6) Lessee required to form unit By regulation the Secretary may require a lessee under this chapter to form a logical mining unit, and may provide for determination of participating acreage within a unit. (7) Required acreage No logical mining unit shall be approved by the Secretary if the total acreage (both Federal and non-Federal) of the unit would exceed twenty-five thousand acres. (8) Acreage limitations for coal leases not waived Nothing in this section shall be construed to waive the acreage limitations for coal leases contained in section 184(a) of this title. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 2(d), as added Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 5(b), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1086.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The date of enactment of this Act, referred to in par. (5), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 94-377, which was approved Aug. 4, 1976. This section, referred to in pars. (5) and (8), is section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, as amended, which is comprised of subsecs. (a) to (d). Subsecs. (a) and (b) of section 2 are classified to section 201 of this title, subsec. (c) of section 2 is classified to section 202 of this title, and subsec. (d) of section 2, as added by section 5(b) of Pub. L. 94-377, is classified to this section. -COD- CODIFICATION Section is comprised of subsec. (d) of section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, as added by Pub. L. 94-377. Subsecs. (a) and (b) of said section 2 are classified to section 201 of this title. Subsec. (c) of said section 2 is classified to section 202 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 203, 1272 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 203 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 203. Additional contiguous or cornering lands allowed lessees; application of production or mining plan requirements and minimum royalty provisions -STATUTE- Any person, association, or corporation holding a lease of coal lands or coal deposits under the provisions of this chapter may with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, upon a finding by him that it would be in the interest of the United States, secure modifications of the original coal lease by including additional coal lands or coal deposits contiguous or cornering to those embraced in such lease, but in no event shall the total area added by such modifications to an existing coal lease exceed one hundred sixty acres, or add acreage larger than that in the original lease. The Secretary shall prescribe terms and conditions which shall be consistent with this chapter and applicable to all of the acreage in such modified lease except that nothing in this section shall require the Secretary to apply the production or mining plan requirements of sections 202a(2) and 207(c) of this title. The minimum royalty provisions of section 207(a) of this title shall not apply to any lands covered by this modified lease prior to a modification until the term of the original lease or extension thereof which became effective prior to the effective date of this Act has expired. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 3, 41 Stat. 439; Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 13(b), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090; Pub. L. 95-554, Sec. 3, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2074.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 202a(2) and 207(c) of this title, referred to in text, was in the original "section 2(d)(2) and 7(c) of this Act (30 U.S.C. 201(d)(2) and 207(c))", but was translated as sections 202a(2) and 207(c) of this title as the probable intent of Congress. The effective date of this Act, referred to in text, probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 95-554, which was approved Oct. 30, 1978. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1978 - Pub. L. 95-554 authorized modification of leases to include coal lands or coal deposits cornering to those embraced in the leases and inserted provision respecting application of production or mining plan requirements of sections 202a(2) and 207(c) and minimum royalty provisions of section 207(a) of this title. 1976 - Pub. L. 94-377 struck out the advantage to the lessee as one of the conditions for modification of the original lease, substituted provision prohibiting the addition of total area in excess of 160 acres or adding acreage larger than that in the original lease for provision limiting the total area embraced in such modified lease to an aggregate of 2560 acres, and inserted provision authorizing the Secretary to prescribe terms and conditions consistent with this chapter which shall be applicable to the total acreage in the modified lease. SAVINGS PROVISION Section 13(b) of Pub. L. 94-377 provided that the amendment made by that section is subject to valid existing rights. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 208, 1272 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435; title 16 section 460ll-3. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 204 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 204. Repealed. Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 13(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090 -MISC1- Section, act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 4, 41 Stat. 439, provided for the leasing of an additional tract of land or coal deposit, not to exceed 2560 acres, upon a showing by a lessee that all workable deposits of coal would be exhausted, worked out, or removed within three years thereafter. SAVINGS PROVISION Section 13(a) of Pub. L. 94-377 provided that the repeal of this section is subject to valid existing rights. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 205 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 205. Consolidation of leases -STATUTE- If, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, the public interest will be subserved thereby, lessees holding under lease areas not exceeding the maximum permitted under this chapter may consolidate their leases through the surrender of the original leases and the inclusion of such areas in a new lease of not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of contiguous lands. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 5, 41 Stat. 439.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 208 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 206 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 206. Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease -STATUTE- Where coal or phosphate lands aggregating two thousand five hundred and sixty acres and subject to lease hereunder do not exist as contiguous areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, if, in his opinion, the interests of the public and of the lessee will be thereby subserved, to embrace in a single lease noncontiguous tracts which can be operated as a single mine or unit. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 6, 41 Stat. 439.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 208 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 207 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 207. Conditions of lease -STATUTE- (a) Term of lease; annual rentals; royalties; readjustment of conditions A coal lease shall be for a term of twenty years and for so long thereafter as coal is produced annually in commercial quantities from that lease. Any lease which is not producing in commercial quantities at the end of ten years shall be terminated. The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe annual rentals on leases. A lease shall require payment of a royalty in such amount as the Secretary shall determine of not less than 12 1/2 per centum of the value of coal as defined by regulation, except the Secretary may determine a lesser amount in the case of coal recovered by underground mining operations. The lease shall include such other terms and conditions as the Secretary shall determine. Such rentals and royalties and other terms and conditions of the lease will be subject to readjustment at the end of its primary term of twenty years and at the end of each ten-year period thereafter if the lease is extended. (b) Diligent development and continued operation; suspension of condition on payment of advance royalties Each lease shall be subject to the conditions of diligent development and continued operation of the mine or mines, except where operations under the lease are interrupted by strikes, the elements, or casualties not attributable to the lessee. The Secretary of the Interior, upon determining that the public interest will be served thereby, may suspend the condition of continued operation upon the payment of advance royalties. Such advance royalties shall be no less than the production royalty which would otherwise be paid and shall be computed on a fixed reserve to production ratio (determined by the Secretary). The aggregate number of years during the period of any lease for which advance royalties may be accepted in lieu of the condition of continued operation shall not exceed ten. The amount of any production royalty paid for any year shall be reduced (but not below 0) by the amount of any advance royalties paid under such lease to the extent that such advance royalties have not been used to reduce production royalties for a prior year. No advance royalty paid during the initial twenty-year term of a lease shall be used to reduce a production royalty after the twentieth year of a lease. The Secretary may, upon six months' notification to the lessee cease to accept advance royalties in lieu of the requirement of continued operation. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect the requirement contained in the second sentence of subsection (a) of this section relating to commencement of production at the end of ten years. (c) Operation and reclamation plan Prior to taking any action on a leasehold which might cause a significant disturbance of the environment, and not later than three years after a lease is issued, the lessee shall submit for the Secretary's approval an operation and reclamation plan. The Secretary shall approve or disapprove the plan or require that it be modified. Where the land involved is under the surface jurisdiction of another Federal agency, that other agency must consent to the terms of such approval. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 7, 41 Stat. 439; Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 6, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1087.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1976 - Pub. L. 94-377 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted provisions limiting the lease term to 20 years and for so long thereafter as coal is produced annually in commercial quantities for provision authorizing leases for indeterminate periods upon condition of diligent development and continued operation except for strikes, the elements, or casualties not attributable to lessees; provisions for payment of royalties as determined by the Secretary of not less than 12 1/2 per centum of coal value, except as reduced for coal from underground mining operations for provisions specifying royalties as stated in the lease, but not less than 5 cents per ton; provision for rentals as prescribed by regulation for provision setting rentals as fixed by the Secretary at not less than 25 cents per acre for the first year, 50 cents for the second, third, fourth and fifth years, and $1 for each year thereafter, and provision for readjustment of royalties and terms and conditions after primary period of twenty years and subsequent ten year intervals for provision for readjustment after twenty years unless otherwise provided by law, and added subsecs. (b) and (c). -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 201, 203, 208, 1256, 1272 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 208 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 208. Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit -STATUTE- In order to provide for the supply of strictly local domestic needs for fuel, the Secretary of the Interior may, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe in advance, issue limited licenses or permits to individuals or associations of individuals to prospect for, mine, and take for their use but not for sale, coal from the public lands without payment of royalty for the coal mined or the land occupied, on such conditions not inconsistent with this chapter as in his opinion will safeguard the public interests. This privilege shall not extend to any corporations. In the case of municipal corporations the Secretary of the Interior may issue such limited license or permit, for not to exceed three hundred and twenty acres for a municipality of less than one hundred thousand population, and not to exceed one thousand two hundred and eighty acres for a municipality of not less than one hundred thousand and not more than one hundred and fifty thousand population; and not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres for a municipality of one hundred and fifty thousand population or more, the land to be selected within the State wherein the municipal applicant may be located, upon condition that such municipal corporations will mine the coal therein under proper conditions and dispose of the same without profit to residents of such municipality for household use: Provided, That the acquisition or holding of a lease under sections 181, 201, and 202 to 207 of this title shall be no bar to the holding of such tract or operation of such mine under said limited license. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 8, 41 Stat. 440.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 208-1 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 208-1. Exploratory program for evaluation of known recoverable coal resources -STATUTE- (a) Authorization; purpose The Secretary is authorized and directed to conduct a comprehensive exploratory program designed to obtain sufficient data and information to evaluate the extent, location, and potential for developing the known recoverable coal resources within the coal lands subject to this chapter. This program shall be designed to obtain the resource information necessary for determining whether commercial quantities of coal are present and the geographical extent of the coal fields and for estimating the amount of such coal which is recoverable by deep mining operations and the amount of such coal which is recoverable by surface mining operations in order to provide a basis for - (1) developing a comprehensive land use plan pursuant to section 2; (2) improving the information regarding the value of public resources and revenues which should be expected from leasing; (3) increasing competition among producers of coal, or products derived from the conversion of coal, by providing data and information to all potential bidders equally and equitably; (4) providing the public with information on the nature of the coal deposits and the associated stratum and the value of the public resources being offered for sale; and (5) providing the basis for the assessment of the amount of coal deposits in those lands subject to this chapter under subparagraph (B) of section 201(a)(3) of this title. (b) Seismic, geophysical, geochemical or stratigraphic drilling The Secretary, through the United States Geological Survey, is authorized to conduct seismic, geophysical, geochemical, or stratigraphic drilling, or to contract for or purchase the results of such exploratory activities from commercial or other sources which may be needed to implement the provisions of this section. (c) Exploratory drilling by party not under contract to United States; confidentiality of information prior to award of lease Nothing in this section shall limit any person from conducting exploratory geophysical surveys including seismic, geophysical, chemical surveys to the extent permitted by section 201(b) of this title. The information obtained from the exploratory drilling carried out by a person not under contract with the United States Government for such drilling prior to award of a lease shall be provided the confidentiality pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. (d) Availability to public of all data, information, maps, surveys; confidentiality of information purchased from commercial sources not under contract to United States prior to award of lease The Secretary shall make available to the public by appropriate means all data, information, maps, interpretations, and surveys which are obtained directly by the Department of the Interior or under a service contract pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. The Secretary shall maintain a confidentiality of all proprietary data or information purchased from commercial sources while not under contract with the United States Government until after the areas involved have been leased. (e) Information or data from Federal departments or agencies; confidentiality of proprietary information or data; utilization of Federal departments and agencies by agreement All Federal departments or agencies are authorized and directed to provide the Secretary with any information or data that may be deemed necessary to assist the Secretary in implementing the exploratory program pursuant to this section. Proprietary information or data provided to the Secretary under the provisions of this subsection shall remain confidential for such period of time as agreed to by the head of the department or agency from whom the information is requested. In addition, the Secretary is authorized and directed to utilize the existing capabilities and resources of other Federal departments and agencies by appropriate agreement. (f) Publication of geological and geophysical maps and reports of lands offered for lease The Secretary is directed to prepare, publish, and keep current a series of detailed geological, and geophysical maps of, and reports concerning, all coal lands to be offered for leasing under this chapter, based on data and information compiled pursuant to this section. Such maps and reports shall be prepared and revised at reasonable intervals beginning eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Such maps and reports shall be made available on a continuing basis to any person on request. (g) Implementation plan for coal lands exploration program; development and transmittal to Congress; contents Within six months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop and transmit to Congress an implementation plan for the coal lands exploration program authorized by this section, including procedures for making the data and information available to the public pursuant to subsection (d) of this section, and maps and reports pursuant to subsection (f) of this section. The implementation plan shall include a projected schedule of exploratory activities and identification of the regions and areas which will be explored under the coal lands exploration program during the first five years following the enactment of this section. In addition, the implementation plan shall include estimates of the appropriations and staffing required to implement the coal lands exploration program. (h) Stratigraphic drilling; scope; statement of results The stratigraphic drilling authorized in subsection (b) of this section shall be carried out in such a manner as to obtain information pertaining to all recoverable reserves. For the purpose of complying with subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary shall require all those authorized to conduct stratigraphic drilling pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to supply a statement of the results of test boring of core sampling including logs of the drill holes; the thickness of the coal seams found; an analysis of the chemical properties of such coal; and an analysis of the strata layers lying above all the seams of coal. All drilling activities shall be conducted using the best current technology and practices. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 8A, as added Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 7, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1087.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 2, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), means section 2 of act Feb. 25, 1920, as amended, and is comprised of subsecs. (a) to (d). Subsecs. (a) and (b) of section 2 are classified to section 201 of this title, subsec. (c) of section 2 is classified to section 202 of this title, and subsec. (d) of section 2, as added by section 5(b) of Pub. L. 94-377, is classified to section 202a of this title. The date of enactment of this Act, referred to in subsecs. (f) and (g), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 94-377, which was approved Aug. 4, 1976. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 1272 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 208-2 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 208-2. Repealed. Pub. L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1091(e), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 722 -MISC1- Section, act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 8B, as added Aug. 4, 1976, Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 8, 90 Stat. 1089, related to reports to Congress on leasing and production of coal lands, contents, recommendations, and reports by Attorney General on competition in the coal industry and on effectiveness of antitrust laws. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 208a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 208a. Repealed. Pub. L. 97-468, title VI, Sec. 615(a)(3), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2578 -MISC1- Section, act July 19, 1932, ch. 513, 47 Stat. 707, authorized general manager of Alaska Railroad to purchase coal annually for railroad from two or more operating companies in areas adjacent to railroad. Section was formerly classified to section 445a of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL Repeal by Pub. L. 97-468 became effective on date of transfer of Alaska Railroad to the State [Jan. 5, 1985], pursuant to section 1203 of Title 45, Railroads, see section 615(a) of Pub. L. 97-468. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 209 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER II - COAL -HEAD- Sec. 209. Suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties to promote development or operation; extension of lease on suspension of operations and production -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of encouraging the greatest ultimate recovery of coal, oil, gas, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), phosphate, sodium, potassium and sulfur, and in the interest of conservation of natural resources, is authorized to waive, suspend, or reduce the rental, or minimum royalty, or reduce the royalty on an entire leasehold, or on any tract or portion thereof segregated for royalty purposes, whenever in his judgment it is necessary to do so in order to promote development, or whenever in his judgment the leases cannot be successfully operated under the terms provided therein.(!1) Provided, however, That in order to promote development and the maximum production of tar sand, at the request of the lessee, the Secretary shall review, prior to commencement of commercial operations, the royalty rates established in each combined hydrocarbon lease issued in special tar sand areas. For purposes of this section, the term "tar sand" means any consolidated or unconsolidated rock (other than coal, oil shale, or gilsonite) that either: (1) contains a hydrocarbonaceous material with a gas-free viscosity, at original reservoir temperature, greater than 10,000 centipoise, or (2) contains a hydrocarbonaceous material and is produced by mining or quarrying. In the event the Secretary of the Interior, in the interest of conservation, shall direct or shall assent to the suspension of operations and production under any lease granted under the terms of this chapter, any payment of acreage rental or of minimum royalty prescribed by such lease likewise shall be suspended during such period of suspension of operations and production; and the term of such lease shall be extended by adding any such suspension period thereto. The provisions of this section shall apply to all oil and gas leases issued under this chapter, including those within an approved or prescribed plan for unit or cooperative development and operation. Nothing in this section shall be construed as granting to the Secretary the authority to waive, suspend, or reduce advance royalties. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 39, as added Feb. 9, 1933, ch. 45, 47 Stat. 798; amended Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 10, 60 Stat. 957; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 7, 62 Stat. 291; Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 14, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1091; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(3), (7), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070, 1071.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1981 - Pub. L. 97-78 inserted reference to gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons) and inserted proviso that, in order to promote development and the maximum production of tar sand, at the request of the lessee, the Secretary review, prior to commencement of commercial operations, the royalty rates established in each combined hydrocarbon lease issued in special tar sand areas, and that, for purposes of this section, "tar sand" means any consolidated or unconsolidated rock (other than coal, oil shale, or gilsonite) that either contains a hydrocarbonaceous material with a gas-free viscosity, at original reservoir temperature, greater than 10,000 centipoise, or contains a hydrocarbonaceous material and is produced by mining or quarrying. 1976 - Pub. L. 94-377 inserted sentence at end that nothing in this section shall be construed as granting to the Secretary authority to waive, suspend, or reduce advance royalties. 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, extended applicability of section to oil shale, phosphate, sodium, potassium, and sulphur. 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, principally inserted first and third sentences relating to waiver, suspension or reduction of royalties or rentals, and applicability of section to cooperative or unit plans, respectively. SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 188, 1272 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. The period probably should be a colon. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 211 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES -HEAD- Sec. 211. Phosphate deposits -STATUTE- (a) Authorization to lease land; terms and conditions; acreage The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease to any applicant qualified under this chapter, through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt, any phosphate deposits of the United States, and lands containing such deposits, including associated and related minerals, when in his judgment the public interest will be best served thereby. The lands shall be leased under such terms and conditions as are herein specified, in units reasonably compact in form of not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres. (b) Prospecting permits; issuance; term; acreage; entitlement to lease Where prospecting or exploratory work is necessary to determine the existence or workability of phosphate deposits in any unclaimed, undeveloped area, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue, to any applicant qualified under this chapter, a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for phosphate deposits, including associated minerals, for a period of two years, for not more than two thousand five hundred and sixty acres; and if prior to the expiration of the permit the permittee shows to the Secretary that valuable deposits of phosphate have been discovered within the area covered by his permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit. (c) Extension of term of permit Any phosphate permit issued under this section may be extended by the Secretary for such an additional period, not in excess of four years, as he deems advisable, if he finds that the permittee has been unable, with reasonable diligence, to determine the existence or workability of phosphate deposits in the area covered by the permit and desires to prosecute further prospecting or exploration, or for other reasons warranting such an extension in the opinion of the Secretary. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 9, 41 Stat. 440; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 290; Pub. L. 86-391, Sec. 1(a), Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 7.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1960 - Pub. L. 86-391 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c). 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, included provision limiting amount of land in lease. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 213, 214 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 212 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES -HEAD- Sec. 212. Surveys; royalties; time payable; annual rentals; term of leases; readjustment on renewals; minimum production; suspension of operation -STATUTE- Each lease shall describe the leased lands by the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys. All leases shall be conditioned upon the payment to the United States of such royalties as may be specified in the lease, which shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior in advance of offering the same, at not less than 5 per centum of the gross value of the output of phosphates or phosphate rock and associated or related minerals. Royalties shall be due and payable as specified in the lease either monthly or quarterly on the last day of the month next following the month or quarter in which the minerals are sold or removed from the leased land. Each lease shall provide for the payment of a rental payable at the date of the lease and annually thereafter which shall be not less than 25 cents per acre for the first year, 50 cents per acre for the second and third years, respectively, and $1 per acre for each year thereafter, during the continuance of the lease. The rental paid for any year shall be credited against the royalties for that year. Leases shall be for a term of twenty years and so long thereafter as the lessee complies with the terms and conditions of the lease and upon the further condition that at the end of each twenty-year period succeeding the date of the lease such reasonable readjustment of the terms and conditions thereof may be made therein as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior unless otherwise provided by law at the expiration of such periods. Leases shall be conditioned upon a minimum annual production or the payment of a minimum royalty in lieu thereof, except when production is interrupted by strikes, the elements, or casualties not attributable to the lessee. The Secretary of the Interior may permit suspension of operations under any such leases when marketing conditions are such that the leases cannot be operated except at a loss. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 10, 41 Stat. 440; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 3, 62 Stat. 290.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, amended section generally, omitting provisions relating to amount of lands in lease, and inserting provisions regarding royalties. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 213, 214 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 213 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES -HEAD- Sec. 213. Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease -STATUTE- Any lease to develop and extract phosphates, phosphate rock, and associated or related minerals under the provisions of sections 211 to 214 of this title shall provide that the lessee may use so much of any deposit of silica or limestone or other rock situated on any public lands embraced in the lease as may be utilized in the processing or refining of the phosphates, phosphate rock, and associated or related minerals mined from the leased lands or from other lands upon payments of such royalty as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, which royalty may be stated in the lease or, as to the leases already issued, may be provided for in an attachment to the lease to be duly executed by the lessor and the lessee. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 11, 41 Stat. 440; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 4, 62 Stat. 291.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, amended section generally, omitting provision relating to royalties and annual rents, and inserting provisions relating to use of deposits of silica, limestone or other rock embraced in the lease upon the payment of a suitable royalty. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 214 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 214 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER III - PHOSPHATES -HEAD- Sec. 214. Use of surface of other public lands; acreage; forest lands exception -STATUTE- The holder of any lease or permit issued under the provisions of sections 211 to 214 of this title shall have the right to use so much of the surface of unappropriated and unentered public lands not a part of his lease or permit, not exceeding eighty acres in area, as may be determined by the Secretary to be necessary or convenient for the extraction, treatment, and removal of the mineral deposits, but this provision shall not be applicable to national forest lands. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 12, 41 Stat. 441; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 5, 62 Stat. 291; Pub. L. 86-391, Sec. 1(b), Mar. 18, 1960, 74 Stat. 8.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1960 - Pub. L. 86-391 substituted "lease or permit" for "lease" in two places. 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, increased lands to be used from 40 to 80 acres, excepted national forest lands from its provisions, and substituted "The holder of any lease issued under the provisions of sections 211 to 214 of this title", "public lands not a part of his lease", and "or convenient for the extraction" for "Any qualified applicant to whom the Secretary of the Interior may grant a lease to develop and extract phosphates, or phosphate rock, under the provisions of this chapter", "lands", and "for the proper prospecting for or development, extraction", respectively. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 213 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 221 to 222i 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Secs. 221 to 222i. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Sections expired by their own terms. They provided as follows: Section 221, acts Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 13, 41 Stat. 441; Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 599, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 674, provided for prospecting permits, their terms and conditions, extension, location of lands, marking land, notice of application for permits, permits in Alaska, exchanging permits for leases, and limited extensions to Dec. 31, 1938. Section 222, act Jan. 11, 1922, ch. 28, 42 Stat. 356, authorized Secretary of the Interior to extend time for drilling not to exceed three years. Section 222a, act Apr. 5, 1926, ch. 107, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 236, authorized a further extension of two years for drilling. Section 222b, act Apr. 5, 1926, ch. 107, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 236, provided for extension of expired permits for a period of two years from Apr. 5, 1926. Section 222c, act Mar. 9, 1928, ch. 168, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 252, authorized a two year extension for permits. Section 222d, act Mar. 9, 1928, ch. 168, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 252, authorized a two year extension of permits already expired. Section 222e, act Jan. 23, 1930, ch. 25, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 58, provided that permits issued or extended for three years might be further for three years. Section 222f, act Jan. 23, 1930, ch. 25, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 59, provided for an extension of permits already expired for a period of three years from Jan. 23, 1930. Section 222g, act June 30, 1932, ch. 319, Sec. 1, 47 Stat. 445, provided for a further extension of three years. Section 222h, act June 30, 1932, ch. 319, Sec. 2, 47 Stat. 446, authorized an extension, for permits already expired, of three years from June 30, 1932. Section 222i, acts Aug. 26, 1937, ch. 828, 50 Stat. 842; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 716, 53 Stat. 1418, provided for final extension of prospecting permits, outstanding on Dec. 31, 1937, to Dec. 31, 1939. -MISC1- COMPROMISE OF CLAIMS FOR ACCRUED RENTAL Act July 29, 1942, ch. 534, Sec. 2, 56 Stat. 726, authorized Secretary of the Interior to make a compromise settlement of any claim for accrued rental under a lease issued pursuant to the provisions of section 221 of this title, in any case in which he determined that it would be financially beneficial to the United States to make such a compromise settlement or in any case in which he determined that collection of the full amount of such accrued rental from the lessee was inadvisable because of the lessee's financial resources being limited. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 223 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 223. Leases; amount and survey of land; term of lease; royalties and annual rental -STATUTE- Upon establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of oil or gas have been discovered within the limits of the land embraced in any permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for one-fourth of the land embraced in the prospecting permit: Provided, That the permittee shall be granted a lease for as much as one hundred and sixty acres of said lands, if there be that number of acres within the permit. The area to be selected by the permittee, shall be in reasonably compact form and, if surveyed, to be described by the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys; if unsurveyed, to be surveyed by the Government at the expense of the applicant for lease in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the lands leased shall be conformed to and taken in accordance with the legal subdivisions of such surveys; deposits made to cover expense of surveys shall be deemed appropriated for that purpose, and any excess deposits may be repaid to the person or persons making such deposit or their legal representatives. Such leases shall be for a term of twenty years upon a royalty of 5 per centum in amount or value of the production and the annual payment in advance of a rental of $1 per acre, the rental paid for any one year to be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year, and shall continue in force otherwise as prescribed in section 226 of this title for leases issued prior to August 21, 1935. The permittee shall also be entitled to a preference right to a lease for the remainder of the land in his prospecting permit at a royalty of not less than 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of the production nor more than the royalty rate prescribed by regulation in force on January 1, 1935, for secondary leases issued under this section, and under such other conditions as are fixed for oil or gas leases issued under section 226 of this title the royalty to be determined by competitive bidding or fixed by such other method as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe: Provided further, That the Secretary shall have the right to reject any or all bids. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 14, 41 Stat. 442; Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 599, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 676.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1935 - Act Aug. 21, 1935, inserted "reasonably" before "compact form" and substituted "and shall continue in force otherwise as prescribed in section 226 of this title for leases issued prior to August 21, 1935" and "oil or gas leases issued under section 226 of this title" for "with the right of renewal as prescribed in section 226 of this title" and "oil or gas leases in this chapter", respectively. LIMITATION OF ROYALTY ON DISCOVERIES DURING WAR PERIOD Act Dec. 24, 1942, ch. 812, 56 Stat. 1080, limiting royalty obligation of oil or gas lessee who drills well resulting in discovery of new deposit on public domain during the national emergency was repealed by Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, Sec. 1, 61 Stat. 449. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; LEASES Grant by Secretary of the Interior of oil, gas, and other mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 188, 229, 236a of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 223a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 223a. Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 14, 60 Stat. 958 -MISC1- Section, act Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 599, Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 679, related to new oil and gas leases in lieu of old. SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 224 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 224. Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease -STATUTE- Until the permittee shall apply for lease to the one quarter of the permit area heretofore provided for he shall pay to the United States 20 per centum of the gross value of all oil or gas secured by him from the lands embraced within his permit and sold or otherwise disposed of or held by him for sale or other disposition. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 15, 41 Stat. 442.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 225 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 225. Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation -STATUTE- All leases of lands containing oil or gas, made or issued under the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the condition that the lessee will, in conducting his explorations and mining operations, use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land, or the entrance of water through wells drilled by him to the oil sands or oil-bearing strata, to the destruction or injury of the oil deposits. Violations of the provisions of this section shall constitute grounds for the forfeiture of the lease, to be enforced as provided in this chapter. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 16, 41 Stat. 443; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 2, 60 Stat. 951.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, omitted condition that no wells should be drilled within two hundred feet of boundaries of leased lands. SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASES Terms and conditions of mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1337 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 226 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 226. Lease of oil and gas lands -STATUTE- (a) Authority of Secretary All lands subject to disposition under this chapter which are known or believed to contain oil or gas deposits may be leased by the Secretary. (b) Lands within known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field; lands within special tar sand areas; competitive bidding; royalties (1)(A) All lands to be leased which are not subject to leasing under paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection shall be leased as provided in this paragraph to the highest responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding under general regulations in units of not more than 2,560 acres, except in Alaska, where units shall be not more than 5,760 acres. Such units shall be as nearly compact as possible. Lease sales shall be conducted by oral bidding. Lease sales shall be held for each State where eligible lands are available at least quarterly and more frequently if the Secretary of the Interior determines such sales are necessary. A lease shall be conditioned upon the payment of a royalty at a rate of not less than 12.5 percent in amount or value of the production removed or sold from the lease. The Secretary shall accept the highest bid from a responsible qualified bidder which is equal to or greater than the national minimum acceptable bid, without evaluation of the value of the lands proposed for lease. Leases shall be issued within 60 days following payment by the successful bidder of the remainder of the bonus bid, if any, and the annual rental for the first lease year. All bids for less than the national minimum acceptable bid shall be rejected. Lands for which no bids are received or for which the highest bid is less than the national minimum acceptable bid shall be offered promptly within 30 days for leasing under subsection (c) of this section and shall remain available for leasing for a period of 2 years after the competitive lease sale. (B) The national minimum acceptable bid shall be $2 per acre for a period of 2 years from December 22, 1987. Thereafter, the Secretary may establish by regulation a higher national minimum acceptable bid for all leases based upon a finding that such action is necessary: (i) to enhance financial returns to the United States; and (ii) to promote more efficient management of oil and gas resources on Federal lands. Ninety days before the Secretary makes any change in the national minimum acceptable bid, the Secretary shall notify the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. The proposal or promulgation of any regulation to establish a national minimum acceptable bid shall not be considered a major Federal action subject to the requirements of section 4332(2)(C) of title 42. (2) If the lands to be leased are within a special tar sand area, they shall be leased to the highest responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding under general regulations in units of not more than five thousand one hundred and twenty acres, which shall be as nearly compact as possible, upon the payment by the lessee of such bonus as may be accepted by the Secretary. Royalty shall be 12(!1/2) per centum in amount or value of production removed or sold from the lease, subject to subsection (k)(1)(c) (!1) of this section. The Secretary may lease such additional lands in special tar sand areas as may be required in support of any operations necessary for the recovery of tar sands. (3)(A) If the United States held a vested future interest in a mineral estate that, immediately prior to becoming a vested present interest, was subject to a lease under which oil or gas was being produced, or had a well capable of producing, in paying quantities at an annual average production volume per well per day of either not more than 15 barrels per day of oil or condensate, or not more than 60,000 cubic feet of gas, the holder of the lease may elect to continue the lease as a noncompetitive lease under subsection (c)(1) of this section. (B) An election under this paragraph is effective - (i) in the case of an interest which vested after January 1, 1990, and on or before October 24, 1992, if the election is made before the date that is 1 year after October 24, 1992; (ii) in the case of an interest which vests within 1 year after October 24, 1992, if the election is made before the date that is 2 years after October 24, 1992; and (iii) in any case other than those described in clause (i) or (ii), if the election is made prior to the interest becoming a vested present interest. (C) Notwithstanding the consent requirement referenced in section 352 of this title, the Secretary shall issue a noncompetitive lease under subsection (c)(1) of this section to a holder who makes an election under subparagraph (A) and who is qualified to hold a lease under this chapter. Such lease shall be subject to all terms and conditions under this chapter that are applicable to leases issued under subsection (c)(1) of this section. (D) A lease issued pursuant to this paragraph shall continue so long as oil or gas continues to be produced in paying quantities. (E) This paragraph shall apply only to those lands under the administration of the Secretary of Agriculture where the United States acquired an interest in such lands pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961 and following). (c) Lands subject to leasing under subsection (b); first qualified applicant (1) If the lands to be leased are not leased under subsection (b)(1) of this section or are not subject to competitive leasing under subsection (b)(2) of this section, the person first making application for the lease who is qualified to hold a lease under this chapter shall be entitled to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding, upon payment of a non-refundable application fee of at least $75. A lease under this subsection shall be conditioned upon the payment of a royalty at a rate of 12.5 percent in amount or value of the production removed or sold from the lease. Leases shall be issued within 60 days of the date on which the Secretary identifies the first responsible qualified applicant. (2)(A) Lands (i) which were posted for sale under subsection (b)(1) of this section but for which no bids were received or for which the highest bid was less than the national minimum acceptable bid and (ii) for which, at the end of the period referred to in subsection (b)(1) of this section no lease has been issued and no lease application is pending under paragraph (1) of this subsection, shall again be available for leasing only in accordance with subsection (b)(1) of this section. (B) The land in any lease which is issued under paragraph (1) of this subsection or under subsection (b)(1) of this section which lease terminates, expires, is cancelled or is relinquished shall again be available for leasing only in accordance with subsection (b)(1) of this section. (d) Annual rentals All leases issued under this section, as amended by the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987, shall be conditioned upon payment by the lessee of a rental of not less than $1.50 per acre per year for the first through fifth years of the lease and not less than $2 per acre per year for each year thereafter. A minimum royalty in lieu of rental of not less than the rental which otherwise would be required for that lease year shall be payable at the expiration of each lease year beginning on or after a discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities on the lands leased. (e) Primary terms Competitive and noncompetitive leases issued under this section shall be for a primary term of 10 years: Provided, however, That competitive leases issued in special tar sand areas shall also be for a primary term of ten years. Each such lease shall continue so long after its primary term as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. Any lease issued under this section for land on which, or for which under an approved cooperative or unit plan of development or operation, actual drilling operations were commenced prior to the end of its primary term and are being diligently prosecuted at that time shall be extended for two years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. (f) Notice of proposed action; posting of notice; terms and maps At least 45 days before offering lands for lease under this section, and at least 30 days before approving applications for permits to drill under the provisions of a lease or substantially modifying the terms of any lease issued under this section, the Secretary shall provide notice of the proposed action. Such notice shall be posted in the appropriate local office of the leasing and land management agencies. Such notice shall include the terms or modified lease terms and maps or a narrative description of the affected lands. Where the inclusion of maps in such notice is not practicable, maps of the affected lands shall be made available to the public for review. Such maps shall show the location of all tracts to be leased, and of all leases already issued in the general area. The requirements of this subsection are in addition to any public notice required by other law. (g) Regulation of surface-disturbing activities; approval of plan of operations; bond or surety; failure to comply with reclamation requirements as barring lease; opportunity to comply with requirements The Secretary of the Interior, or for National Forest lands, the Secretary of Agriculture, shall regulate all surface-disturbing activities conducted pursuant to any lease issued under this chapter, and shall determine reclamation and other actions as required in the interest of conservation of surface resources. No permit to drill on an oil and gas lease issued under this chapter may be granted without the analysis and approval by the Secretary concerned of a plan of operations covering proposed surface-disturbing activities within the lease area. The Secretary concerned shall, by rule or regulation, establish such standards as may be necessary to ensure that an adequate bond, surety, or other financial arrangement will be established prior to the commencement of surface-disturbing activities on any lease, to ensure the complete and timely reclamation of the lease tract, and the restoration of any lands or surface waters adversely affected by lease operations after the abandonment or cessation of oil and gas operations on the lease. The Secretary shall not issue a lease or leases or approve the assignment of any lease or leases under the terms of this section to any person, association, corporation, or any subsidiary, affiliate, or person controlled by or under common control with such person, association, or corporation, during any period in which, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Agriculture, such entity has failed or refused to comply in any material respect with the reclamation requirements and other standards established under this section for any prior lease to which such requirements and standards applied. Prior to making such determination with respect to any such entity the concerned Secretary shall provide such entity with adequate notification and an opportunity to comply with such reclamation requirements and other standards and shall consider whether any administrative or judicial appeal is pending. Once the entity has complied with the reclamation requirement or other standard concerned an oil or gas lease may be issued to such entity under this chapter. (h) National Forest System Lands The Secretary of the Interior may not issue any lease on National Forest System Lands reserved from the public domain over the objection of the Secretary of Agriculture. (i) Termination No lease issued under this section which is subject to termination because of cessation of production shall be terminated for this cause so long as reworking or drilling operations which were commenced on the land prior to or within sixty days after cessation of production are conducted thereon with reasonable diligence, or so long as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities as a result of such operations. No lease issued under this section shall expire because operations or production is suspended under any order, or with the consent, of the Secretary. No lease issued under this section covering lands on which there is a well capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities shall expire because the lessee fails to produce the same unless the lessee is allowed a reasonable time, which shall be not less than sixty days after notice by registered or certified mail, within which to place such well in producing status or unless, after such status is established, production is discontinued on the leased premises without permission granted by the Secretary under the provisions of this chapter. (j) Drainage agreements; primary term of lease, extension Whenever it appears to the Secretary that lands owned by the United States are being drained of oil or gas by wells drilled on adjacent lands, he may negotiate agreements whereby the United States, or the United States and its lessees, shall be compensated for such drainage. Such agreements shall be made with the consent of the lessees, if any, affected thereby. If such agreement is entered into, the primary term of any lease for which compensatory royalty is being paid, or any extension of such primary term, shall be extended for the period during which such compensatory royalty is paid and for a period of one year from discontinuance of such payment and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. (k) Mining claims; suspension of running time of lease If, during the primary term or any extended term of any lease issued under this section, a verified statement is filed by any mining claimant pursuant to subsection (c) of section 527 of this title, whether such filing occur prior to September 2, 1960 or thereafter, asserting the existence of a conflicting unpatented mining claim or claims upon which diligent work is being prosecuted as to any lands covered by the lease, the running of time under such lease shall be suspended as to the lands involved from the first day of the month following the filing of such verified statement until a final decision is rendered in the matter. (g742l) Exchange of leases; conditions The Secretary of the Interior shall, upon timely application therefor, issue a new lease in exchange for any lease issued for a term of twenty years, or any renewal thereof, or any lease issued prior to August 8, 1946, in exchange for a twenty-year lease, such new lease to be for a primary term of five years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities and at a royalty rate of not less than 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of the production removed or sold from such leases, except that the royalty rate shall be 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of the production removed or sold from said leases as to (1) such leases, or such parts of the lands subject thereto and the deposits underlying the same, as are not believed to be within the productive limits of any producing oil or gas deposit, as such productive limits are found by the Secretary to have existed on August 8, 1946; and (2) any production on a lease from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, by a well or wells drilled within the boundaries of the lease, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit; and (3) any production on or allocated to a lease pursuant to an approved cooperative or unit plan of development or operation from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, on land committed to such plan, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit, where such lease, or a lease for which it is exchanged, was included in such plan at the time of discovery or was included in a duly executed and filed application for the approval of such plan at the time of discovery. (m) Cooperative or unit plan; authority of Secretary of the Interior to alter or modify; communitization or drilling agreements; term of lease, conditions; Secretary to approve operating, drilling or development contracts, and subsurface storage For the purpose of more properly conserving the natural resources of any oil or gas pool, field, or like area, or any part thereof (whether or not any part of said oil or gas pool, field, or like area, is then subject to any cooperative or unit plan of development or operation), lessees thereof and their representatives may unite with each other, or jointly or separately with others, in collectively adopting and operating under a cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of such pool, field, or like area, or any part thereof, whenever determined and certified by the Secretary of the Interior to be necessary or advisable in the public interest. The Secretary is thereunto authorized, in his discretion, with the consent of the holders of leases involved, to establish, alter, change, or revoke drilling, producing, rental, minimum royalty, and royalty requirements of such leases and to make such regulations with reference to such leases, with like consent on the part of the lessees, in connection with the institution and operation of any such cooperative or unit plan as he may deem necessary or proper to secure the proper protection of the public interest. The Secretary may provide that oil and gas leases hereafter issued under this chapter shall contain a provision requiring the lessee to operate under such a reasonable cooperative or unit plan, and he may prescribe such a plan under which such lessee shall operate, which shall adequately protect the rights of all parties in interest, including the United States. Any plan authorized by the preceding paragraph which includes lands owned by the United States may, in the discretion of the Secretary, contain a provision whereby authority is vested in the Secretary of the Interior, or any such person, committee, or State or Federal officer or agency as may be designated in the plan, to alter or modify from time to time the rate of prospecting and development and the quantity and rate of production under such plan. All leases operated under any such plan approved or prescribed by the Secretary shall be excepted in determining holdings or control under the provisions of any section of this chapter. When separate tracts cannot be independently developed and operated in conformity with an established well-spacing or development program, any lease, or a portion thereof, may be pooled with other lands, whether or not owned by the United States, under a communitization or drilling agreement providing for an apportionment of production or royalties among the separate tracts of land comprising the drilling or spacing unit when determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be in the public interest, and operations or production pursuant to such an agreement shall be deemed to be operations or production as to each such lease committed thereto. Any lease issued for a term of twenty years, or any renewal thereof, or any portion of such lease that has become the subject of a cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of a pool, field, or like area, which plan has the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall continue in force until the termination of such plan. Any other lease issued under any section of this chapter which has heretofore or may hereafter be committed to any such plan that contains a general provision for allocation of oil or gas shall continue in force and effect as to the land committed so long as the lease remains subject to the plan: Provided, That production is had in paying quantities under the plan prior to the expiration date of the term of such lease. Any lease heretofore or hereafter committed to any such plan embracing lands that are in part within and in part outside of the area covered by any such plan shall be segregated into separate leases as to the lands committed and the lands not committed as of the effective date of unitization: Provided, however, That any such lease as to the nonunitized portion shall continue in force and effect for the term thereof but for not less than two years from the date of such segregation and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. The minimum royalty or discovery rental under any lease that has become subject to any cooperative or unit plan of development or operation, or other plan that contains a general provision for allocation of oil or gas, shall be payable only with respect to the lands subject to such lease to which oil or gas shall be allocated under such plan. Any lease which shall be eliminated from any such approved or prescribed plan, or from any communitization or drilling agreement authorized by this section, and any lease which shall be in effect at the termination of any such approved or prescribed plan, or at the termination of any such communitization or drilling agreement, unless relinquished, shall continue in effect for the original term thereof, but for not less than two years, and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, on such conditions as he may prescribe, to approve operating, drilling, or development contracts made by one or more lessees of oil or gas leases, with one or more persons, associations, or corporations whenever, in his discretion, the conservation of natural products or the public convenience or necessity may require it or the interests of the United States may be best subserved thereby. All leases operated under such approved operating, drilling, or development contracts, and interests thereunder, shall be excepted in determining holdings or control under the provisions of this chapter. The Secretary of the Interior, to avoid waste or to promote conservation of natural resources, may authorize the subsurface storage of oil or gas, whether or not produced from federally owned lands, in lands leased or subject to lease under this chapter. Such authorization may provide for the payment of a storage fee or rental on such stored oil or gas or, in lieu of such fee or rental, for a royalty other than that prescribed in the lease when such stored oil or gas is produced in conjunction with oil or gas not previously produced. Any lease on which storage is so authorized shall be extended at least for the period of storage and so long thereafter as oil or gas not previously produced is produced in paying quantities. (n) Conversion of oil and gas leases and claims on hydrocarbon resources to combined hydrocarbon leases for primary term of 10 years; application (1)(A) The owner of (1) an oil and gas lease issued prior to November 16, 1981, or (2) a valid claim to any hydrocarbon resources leasable under this section based on a mineral location made prior to January 21, 1926, and located within a special tar sand area shall be entitled to convert such lease or claim to a combined hydrocarbon lease for a primary term of ten years upon the filing of an application within two years from November 16, 1981, containing an acceptable plan of operations which assures reasonable protection of the environment and diligent development of those resources requiring enhanced recovery methods of development or mining. For purposes of conversion, no claim shall be deemed invalid solely because it was located as a placer location rather than a lode location or vice versa, notwithstanding any previous adjudication on that issue. (B) The Secretary shall issue final regulations to implement this section within six months of November 16, 1981. If any oil and gas lease eligible for conversion under this section would otherwise expire after November 16, 1981, and before six months following the issuance of implementing regulations, the lessee may preserve his conversion right under such lease for a period ending six months after the issuance of implementing regulations by filing with the Secretary, before the expiration of the lease, a notice of intent to file an application for conversion. Upon submission of a complete plan of operations in substantial compliance with the regulations promulgated by the Secretary for the filing of such plans, the Secretary shall suspend the running of the term of any oil and gas lease proposed for conversion until the plan is finally approved or disapproved. The Secretary shall act upon a proposed plan of operations within fifteen months of its submittal. (C) When an existing oil and gas lease is converted to a combined hydrocarbon lease, the royalty shall be that provided for in the original oil and gas lease and for a converted mining claim, 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of production removed or sold from the lease. (2) Except as provided in this section, nothing in the Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Act of 1981 shall be construed to diminish or increase the rights of any lessee under any oil and gas lease issued prior to November 16, 1981. (g742o) Certain outstanding oil and gas deposits (1) Prior to the commencement of surface-disturbing activities relating to the development of oil and gas deposits on lands described under paragraph (5), the Secretary of Agriculture shall require, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the Secretary, that such activities be subject to terms and conditions as provided under paragraph (2). (2) The terms and conditions referred to in paragraph (1) shall require that reasonable advance notice be furnished to the Secretary of Agriculture at least 60 days prior to the commencement of surface disturbing activities. (3) Advance notice under paragraph (2) shall include each of the following items of information: (A) A designated field representative. (B) A map showing the location and dimensions of all improvements, including but not limited to, well sites and road and pipeline accesses. (C) A plan of operations, of an interim character if necessary, setting forth a schedule for construction and drilling. (D) A plan of erosion and sedimentation control. (E) Proof of ownership of mineral title. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect any authority of the State in which the lands concerned are located to impose any requirements with respect to such oil and gas operations. (4) The person proposing to develop oil and gas deposits on lands described under paragraph (5) shall either - (A) permit the Secretary to market merchantable timber owned by the United States on lands subject to such activities; or (B) arrange to purchase merchantable timber on lands subject to such surface disturbing activities from the Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise arrange for the disposition of such merchantable timber, upon such terms and upon such advance notice of the items referred to in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (3) as the Secretary may accept. (5)(A) The lands referred to in this subsection are those lands referenced in subparagraph (B) which are under the administration of the Secretary of Agriculture where the United States acquired an interest in such lands pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961 and following), but does not have an interest in oil and gas deposits that may be present under such lands. This subsection does not apply to any such lands where, under the provisions of its acquisition of an interest in the lands, the United States is to acquire any oil and gas deposits that may be present under such lands in the future but such interest has not yet vested with the United States. (B) This subsection shall only apply in the Allegheny National Forest. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 17, 41 Stat. 443; July 3, 1930, ch. 854, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1007; Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 506, 46 Stat. 1523; Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 599, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 676; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 3, 60 Stat. 951; July 29, 1954, ch. 644, Sec. 1(1)-(3), 68 Stat. 583; Pub. L. 86-507, Sec. 1(21), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 201; Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 2, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 781; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(6), (8), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070, 1071; Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5102(a)-(d)(1), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-256, 1330-257; Pub. L. 102-486, title XXV, Secs. 2507(a), 2508(a), 2509, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3107-3109; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 11(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4589; Pub. L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1081(a), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 721.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of March 1, 1911, referred to in subsecs. (b)(3)(E) and (o)(5)(A), is act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended, known as the Weeks Law, which is classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 552 of Title 16 and Tables. The Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987, referred to in subsec. (d), is subtitle B (Secs. 5101 to 5113) of title V of Pub. L. 100-203, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-256. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1987 Amendment note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. The Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Act of 1981, referred to in subsec. (n)(2), is Pub. L. 97-78, Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070, which amended sections 181, 182, 184, 209, 226, 241, 351, and 352 of this title and enacted a provision set out as a note under section 181 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1981 Amendment note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1995 - Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 104-66 struck out at end "The Secretary shall report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session all such agreements entered into during the previous year which involve unleased Government lands." 1994 - Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted "Natural Resources" for "Interior and Insular Affairs" before "of the United States House". 1992 - Subsec. (b)(1)(A). Pub. L. 102-486, Sec. 2507(a)(1), substituted "under paragraphs (2) and (3)" for "under paragraph (2)". Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 102-486, Sec. 2507(a)(2), added par. (3). Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 102-486, Sec. 2509, substituted "Competitive and noncompetitive leases issued under this section shall be for a primary term of 10 years: Provided, however," for "Competitive leases issued under this section shall be for a primary term of five years and noncompetitive leases for a primary term of ten years: Provided, however,". Subsec. (o). Pub. L. 102-486, Sec. 2508(a), added subsec. (o). 1987 - Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 100-203, Sec. 5102(a), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: "If the lands to be leased are within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field, they shall be leased to the highest responsible qualified bidder by competitive bidding under general regulations in units of not more than six hundred and forty acres, which shall be as nearly compact in form as possible, upon the payment by the lessee of such bonus as may be accepted by the Secretary and of such royalty as may be fixed in the lease, which shall be not less than 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of the production removed or sold from the lease." Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100-203, Sec. 5102(b), amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: "If the lands to be leased are not subject to leasing under subsection (b) of this section, the person first making application for the lease who is qualified to hold a lease under this chapter shall be entitled to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding. Such leases shall be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of a royalty of 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of the production removed or sold from the lease." Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100-203, Sec. 5102(c), amended subsec. (d) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (d) read as follows: "All leases issued under this section shall be conditioned upon payment by the lessee of a rental of not less than 50 cents per acre for each year of the lease. Each year's lease rental shall be paid in advance. A minimum royalty of $1 per acre in lieu of rental shall be payable at the expiration of each lease year beginning on or after a discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities on the lands leased." Subsecs. (f) to (n). Pub. L. 100-203, Sec. 5102(d)(1), added subsecs. (f) to (h) and redesignated former subsecs. (f) to (k) as (i) to (n), respectively. 1981 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(6)(a), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2). Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(6)(b), substituted "subject to leasing under subsection (b) of this section" for "within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field". Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(6)(c), inserted proviso that competitive leases in special tar sand areas be for a primary term of ten years. Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(8), added subsec. (k). 1960 - Pub. L. 86-705 generally amended this section and sections 226d and 226e of this title, combining all three sections and subdividing provisions into subsections (a) to (j) of this section. Among other changes were: substitution of a fixed 10-year term for a renewable 5-year term for noncompetitive leases, the addition of subsec. (h) provisions with respect to the running of time against a lease during a contest of the claim, an increase in the minimum yearly rentals from 25 to 50 cents an acre, and striking out provisions that permitted a waiver of second-year and third-year rentals in certain situations. Pub. L. 86-507 authorized notice of withdrawal to be given by certified mail. 1954 - Act July 29, 1954, in second par., provided, that no lease shall terminate for nonproduction (1) if reworking or drilling operations are begun within 60 days after cessation of production, (2) if cessation of production is by order or with consent of the Secretary of the Interior, or (3) unless the lessee is given a reasonable time of at least 60 days to place a well, capable of producing paying quantities of oil or gas, on a producing status. Act July 29, 1954, in third par., made sure that if a lessee seasonably applies for an extension of the initial five-year term of the lease he will be given such extension for either 5 years or 2 years, depending on whether or not the land is in a producing structure. Act July 29, 1954, in fifth par., provided that the primary term of a lease which is effected by an agreement under which the United States received compensatory royalty remains in full force and effect for 1 year following discontinuance of compensatory royalty payments. 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, principally substituted, with respect to the leasing of lands not within a known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field, a royalty rate of 12 1/2 per cent without further provision as to lease terms or quality of production; substituted a minimum royalty of $1 per acre per annum after discovery for the advance rental of not less than 25 cents per acre per annum required prior to discovery; provided that all leases shall be for a primary term of 5 years which shall continue thereafter for so long as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities, and that leases, with certain exceptions, shall be subject to one renewal for 5 years, and, if not subject to renewal, shall extend for an additional 2 years if diligent operations are in progress at the lease expiration date. 1935 - Act Aug. 21, 1935, amended section generally. 1931 - Act Mar. 4, 1931, amended section generally. 1930 - Act July 3, 1930, amended section generally. -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. -MISC2- EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1992 AMENDMENT Section 2507(b) of Pub. L. 102-486 provided that: "The amendments made by subsection (a) [amending this section] apply with respect to those mineral estates in which the interest of the United States becomes a vested present interest after January 1, 1990." REGULATIONS Section 2508(b) of Pub. L. 102-486 provided that: "Within 90 days after the enactment of this Act [Oct. 24, 1992] the Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate regulations to implement the amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section]." Section 5107 of Pub. L. 100-203 provided that: "(a) Regulations. - The Secretary shall issue final regulations to implement this subtitle [subtitle B (Secs. 5101-5113) of title V of Pub. L. 100-203, see Short Title of 1987 Amendment note set out under section 181 of this title] within 180 days after the enactment of this subtitle [Dec. 22, 1987]. The regulations shall be effective when published in the Federal Register. "(b) Treatment Under Other Law. - The proposal or promulgation of such regulations shall not be considered a major Federal action subject to the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)]. "(c) Test Sale. - The Secretary may hold one or more lease sales conducted in accordance with the amendments made by this subtitle before promulgation of regulations referred to in subsection (a). Sale procedures for such sale shall be established in the notice of sale." SAVINGS PROVISION Section 8 of Pub. L. 86-705 provided that: "No amendment made by this Act [see Short Title of 1960 Amendment note set out under section 181 of this title] shall affect any valid right in existence on the effective date [Sept. 2, 1960] of the Mineral Leasing Act Revision of 1960." See note set out under section 181 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior, referred to in subsec. (j), to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. -MISC3- PENDING APPLICATIONS, OFFERS, AND BIDS Section 5106 of Pub. L. 100-203 provided that: "(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle [subtitle B (Secs. 5101-5113) of title V of Pub. L. 100-203, see Short Title of 1987 Amendment note set out under section 181 of this title] and except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, all noncompetitive oil and gas lease applications and offers and competitive oil and gas bids pending on the date of enactment of this subtitle [Dec. 22, 1987] shall be processed, and leases shall be issued under the provisions of the Act of February 25, 1920 [this chapter], as in effect before its amendment by this subtitle, except where the issuance of any such lease would not be lawful under such provisions or other applicable law. "(b) No noncompetitive lease applications or offers pending on the date of enactment of this subtitle for lands within the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois; the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas; Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; or Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; shall be processed until these lands are posted for competitive bidding in accordance with section 5102 of this subtitle [amending this section and section 188 of this title]. If any such tract does not receive a bid equal to or greater than the national minimum acceptable bid from a responsible qualified bidder then the noncompetitive applications or offers pending for such a tract shall be reinstated and noncompetitive leases issued under the Act of February 25, 1920, as in effect before its amendment by this subtitle, except where the issuance of any such lease would not be lawful under such provisions or other applicable law. If competitive leases are issued for any such tract, then the pending noncompetitive application or offer shall be rejected. "(c) Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, all oil and gas leasing pursuant to the Act of February 25, 1920, after the date of enactment of this subtitle shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle." REPORT TO CONGRESS Section 5110 of Pub. L. 100-203 provided that: "The Secretary shall submit annually for 5 years after enactment of this subtitle [Dec. 22, 1987] to the Congress a report containing appropriate information to facilitate congressional monitoring of this subtitle [subtitle B (Secs. 5101-5113) of title V of Pub. L. 100-203, see Short Title of 1987 Amendment note set out under section 181 of this title]. Such report shall include, but not be limited to - "(1) the number of acres leased, and the number of leases issued, competitively and noncompetitively; "(2) the amount of revenue received from bonus bids, filing fees, rentals, and royalties; "(3) the amount of production from competitive and noncompetitive leases; and "(4) such other data and information as will facilitate - "(A) an assessment of the onshore oil and gas leasing system, and "(B) a comparison of the system as revised by this subtitle with the system in operation prior to the enactment of this subtitle." LAND USE STUDY Section 5111 of Pub. L. 100-203 provided that: "The National Academy of Sciences and the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study of the manner in which oil and gas resources are considered in the land use plans developed by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743) [Pub. L. 94-579, see Short Title note under 43 U.S.C. 1701] and the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 476) [Pub. L. 93-378, 16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.], as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2949) [Pub. L. 94-588, see Short Title of 1976 Amendment note under 16 U.S.C. 1600], and recommend any improvements that may be necessary to ensure that - "(1) potential oil and gas resources are adequately addressed in planning documents; "(2) the social, economic, and environmental consequences of exploration and development of oil and gas resources are determined; and "(3) any stipulations to be applied to oil and gas leases are clearly identified." REINSTATEMENT AND EXTENSION OF CERTAIN TEN-YEAR OIL AND GAS LEASES Act July 14, 1952, ch. 742, 66 Stat. 630, provided: "That any lease issued for a ten-year term in exchange for an oil and gas prospecting permit pursuant to sections 13 and 17 of the Act entitled 'An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain', approved February 25, 1920, as amended by the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 674) [sections 221 and 226, respectively, of this title], and prior to amendment by the Act of August 8, 1946 [act Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 3, 60 Stat. 951], and upon which drilling operations were being diligently prosecuted on the expiration date of such lease, prior to the effective date of this Act [July 14, 1952], is hereby reinstated effective from the expiration date of the lease and shall continue in effect for a period of two years after the effective date of this Act and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities, if, within ninety days after the enactment of this Act, payment is made, under the terms of such lease as reinstated and extended, of any sums due the United States for prior years. This Act shall not be applicable to any lands which, subsequent to such expiration and prior to the enactment of this Act, have been withdrawn from leasing, leased, or otherwise disposed of." OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; LEASES Grant by Secretary of the Interior of oil, gas, and other mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 181, 188, 223, 236a of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7427, 7435. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. Probably should be subsection "(k)(1)(C)". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 226-1 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 226-1. Extension of noncompetitive oil or gas lease issued before September 2, 1960 -STATUTE- (a) Lands not withdrawn from leasing Upon the expiration of the initial five-year term of any noncompetitive oil or gas lease which was issued prior to September 2, 1960, and which has been maintained in accordance with applicable statutory requirements and regulations, the record titleholder thereof shall be entitled to a single extension of the lease, unless then otherwise provided by law, for such lands covered by it as are not, on the expiration date of the lease, withdrawn from leasing. A withdrawal, however, shall not affect the right to an extension if actual drilling operations on such lands were commenced prior to the effective date of the withdrawal and were being diligently prosecuted on the expiration date of the lease. No withdrawal shall be effective within the meaning of this section until ninety days after notice thereof has been sent by registered or certified mail to each lessee to be affected by such withdrawal. (b) Known and unknown geologic structures of producing fields As to lands not within the known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field, a noncompetitive oil or gas lease to which this section is applicable shall be extended for a period of five years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. As to lands within the known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field, a noncompetitive lease to which this section is applicable shall be extended for a period of two years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. (c) Application requirement Any noncompetitive oil or gas lease extended under this section shall be subject to the rules and regulations in force at the expiration of the initial five-year term of the lease. No extension shall be granted, however, unless within a period of ninety days prior to the expiration date of the lease an application therefor is filed by the record titleholder or an assignee whose assignment has been filed for approval or an operator whose operating agreement has been filed for approval. (d) Commencement of actual drilling operations Any lease issued prior to September 2, 1960, which has been maintained in accordance with applicable statutory requirements and regulations and which pertains to land on which, or for which under an approved cooperative or unit plan of development or operation, actual drilling operations were commenced prior to the end of its primary term and are being diligently prosecuted at that time shall be extended for two years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 4, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 789.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of Mineral Leasing Act Revision of 1960, and not as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 226-2 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 226-2. Limitations for filing oil and gas contests -STATUTE- No action contesting a decision of the Secretary involving any oil and gas lease shall be maintained unless such action is commenced or taken within ninety days after the final decision of the Secretary relating to such matter. No such action contesting such a decision of the Secretary rendered prior to September 2, 1960 shall be maintained unless the same be commenced or taken within ninety days after September 2, 1960. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 42, as added Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 5, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 790.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 1724 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 226-3 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 226-3. Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing -STATUTE- (a) Prohibition The Secretary shall not issue any lease under this chapter or under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 [30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.] on any of the following Federal lands: (1) Lands recommended for wilderness allocation by the surface managing agency. (2) Lands within Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas. (3) Lands designated by Congress as wilderness study areas, except where oil and gas leasing is specifically allowed to continue by the statute designating the study area. (4) Lands within areas allocated for wilderness or further planning in Executive Communication 1504, Ninety-Sixth Congress (House Document numbered 96-119), unless such lands are allocated to uses other than wilderness by a land and resource management plan or have been released to uses other than wilderness by an act of Congress. (b) Exploration In the case of any area of National Forest or public lands subject to this section, nothing in this section shall affect any authority of the Secretary of the Interior (or for National Forest Lands reserved from the public domain, the Secretary of Agriculture) to issue permits for exploration for oil and gas, coal, oil shale, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite or geothermal resources by means not requiring construction of roads or improvement of existing roads if such activity is conducted in a manner compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 43, as added Pub. L. 100-203, title V, Sec. 5112, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330-262; amended Pub. L. 100-443, Sec. 5(c), Sept. 22, 1988, 102 Stat. 1768.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 91-581, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1566, which is classified principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1988 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-443, Sec. 5(c)(1), inserted "or under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970" after "under this chapter" and directed that "oil and gas" be stricken which was executed by striking those words where they appeared after "not issue any" in introductory provisions, but not where they appeared in par. (3) as the probable intent of Congress. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100-443, Sec. 5(c)(2), inserted ", coal, oil shale, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite or geothermal resources" after "oil and gas". -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 1027 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 226a, 226b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Secs. 226a, 226b. Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 14, 60 Stat. 958 -MISC1- Section 226a, act July 8, 1940, ch. 548, 54 Stat. 742, related to lease of lands not within known productive field. See section 226 of this title. Section 226b, acts July 29, 1942, ch. 534, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 726; Dec. 22, 1943, ch. 376, 57 Stat. 608; Sept. 27, 1944, ch. 429, 58 Stat. 755; Nov. 30, 1945, ch. 495, 59 Stat. 587, related to preference right to new oil and gas lease upon expiration of five-year non-competitive oil and gas lease. See section 226 of this title. SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 226c 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 226c. Reduction of royalties under existing leases -STATUTE- From and after August 8, 1946, the royalty obligation to the United States under all leases requiring payment of royalty in excess of 12 1/2 per centum, except leases issued or to be issued upon competitive bidding, is reduced to 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of production removed or sold from said leases as to (1) such leases, or such part of the lands subject thereto, and the deposits underlying the same, as are not believed to be within the productive limits of any oil or gas deposit, as such productive limits are found by the Secretary to exist on August 8, 1946, and (2) any production on a lease from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, by a well or wells drilled within the boundaries of the lease, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit; and (3) any production on or allocated to a lease pursuant to an approved unit or cooperative agreement from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, on land committed to such agreement, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit, where such lease was included in such agreement at the time of discovery, or was included in a duly executed and filed application for the approval of such agreement at the time of discovery. -SOURCE- (Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 12, 60 Stat. 957.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; REFUNDS ON MINERAL-LEASE PAYMENTS Refunds of excess payments with respect to oil, gas, and other leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1339 of Title 43, Public Lands. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 226d, 226e 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Secs. 226d, 226e. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Sections were completely amended by Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 2, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 781, and included in section 17 of Mineral Leasing Act of Feb. 25, 1920, classified to section 226 of this title. Section 226d, act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 17a, as added Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 4, 60 Stat. 952, provided for the exchange of leases and fixed royalty rates for new leases. Section 226e, act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 17b, as added Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 5, 60 Stat. 952; amended July 29, 1954, ch. 644, Sec. 1(4), (5), 68 Stat. 585, permitted establishment of cooperative or unit plans, setting up procedures for regulating production, approving contracts and preventing waste. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 227 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 227. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, acts Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 18, 41 Stat. 443; Feb. 25, 1928, ch. 104, 45 Stat. 148, authorized the United States to issue leases for a period of twenty years to persons who relinquished all rights claimed or possessed prior to July 3, 1910 under preexisting placer mining law provided relinquishment was filed in the General Land Office within six months after Feb. 25, 1920. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 228 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 228. Prospecting permits and leases to persons of lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions of; fraud of claimants -STATUTE- Any person who on October 1, 1919, was a bona fide occupant or claimant of oil or gas lands under a claim initiated while such lands were not withdrawn from oil or gas location and entry, and who had previously performed all acts under then existing laws necessary to valid locations thereof except to make discovery, and upon which discovery had not been made prior to February 25, 1920, and who has performed work or expended on or for the benefit of such locations an amount equal in the aggregate of $250 for each location if application therefor shall be made within six months from February 25, 1920, shall be entitled to prospecting permits thereon upon the same terms and conditions, and limitations as to acreage, as other permits provided for in this chapter, or where any such person has made such discovery, prior to said February 25, 1920, he shall be entitled to a lease thereon under such terms as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe unless otherwise provided for in section 227 (!1) of this title: Provided, That where such prospecting permit is granted upon land within any known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field, the royalty to be fixed in any lease thereafter granted thereon or any portion thereof shall be not less than 12 1/2 per-centum of all the oil or gas produced except oil or gas used for production purposes on the claim, or unavoidably lost: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands reserved for the use of the Navy. No claimant for a permit or lease who has been guilty of any fraud or who had knowledge or reasonable grounds to know of any fraud, or who has not acted honestly and in good faith shall be entitled to any of the benefits of this section. All permits or leases hereunder shall inure to the benefit of the claimant and all persons claiming through or under him by lease, contract, or otherwise, as their interests may appear. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 19, 41 Stat. 445.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 227 of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the Code. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 229 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 229. Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions -STATUTE- In the case of lands bona fide entered as agricultural, and not withdrawn or classified as mineral at the time of entry, but not including lands claimed under any railroad grant, the entryman or patentee, or assigns, where assignment was made prior to January 1, 1918, if the entry has been patented with the mineral right reserved, shall be entitled to a preference right to a permit and to a lease, as herein provided, in case of discovery; and within an area not greater than a township such entryman and patentees, or assigns holding restricted patents may combine their holdings, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres for the purpose of making joint application. Leases executed under this section and embracing only lands so entered shall provide for the payment of a royalty of not less than 12 1/2 per centum as to such areas within the permit as may not be included within the discovery lease to which the permittee is entitled under section 223 of this title. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 20, 41 Stat. 445.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 229a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 229a. Water struck while drilling for oil and gas -STATUTE- (a) Acquisition; condition in lease All prospecting permits and leases for oil or gas made or issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the condition that in case the permittee or lessee strikes water while drilling instead of oil or gas, the Secretary of the Interior may, when such water is of such quality and quantity as to be valuable and usable at a reasonable cost for agricultural, domestic, or other purposes, purchase the casing in the well at the reasonable value thereof to be fixed under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary. (b) Prior leases In cases where water wells producing such water have heretofore been or may hereafter be drilled upon lands embraced in any prospecting permit or lease heretofore issued under this chapter, the Secretary may in like manner purchase the casing in such wells. (c) Disposition The Secretary may make such purchase and may lease or operate such wells for the purpose of producing water and of using the same on the public lands or of disposing of such water for beneficial use on other lands, and where such wells have heretofore been plugged or abandoned or where such wells have been drilled prior to the issuance of any permit or lease by persons not in privity with the permittee or lessee, the Secretary may develop the same for the purposes of this section: Provided, That owners or occupants of lands adjacent to those upon which such water wells may be developed shall have a preference right to make beneficial use of such water. (d) Revolving fund The Secretary may use so much of any funds available for the plugging of wells as he may find necessary to start the program provided for by this section, and thereafter he may use the proceeds from the sale or other disposition of such water as a revolving fund for the continuation of such program, and such proceeds are hereby appropriated for such purpose. (e) Operations under lease not restricted Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict operations under any oil or gas lease or permit under any other provision of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 40, as added June 16, 1934, ch. 557, 48 Stat. 977; amended Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1976 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-579 struck out proviso relating to reservation of land as a water hole under section 300 of title 43. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1976 AMENDMENT Section 704(a) of Pub. L. 94-579 provided that the amendment made by that section is effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976. SAVINGS PROVISION Amendment by Pub. L. 94-579 not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. L. 94-579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 230 to 233 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Secs. 230 to 233. Repealed. June 22, 1948, ch. 605, Sec. 3, 62 Stat. 576 -MISC1- Section 230, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 1448, authorized permits and leases for certain United States citizens and corporations in Oklahoma. Section 231, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 1448, required applications for permits and leases to be made not later than sixty days after Mar. 4, 1923. Section 232, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 3, 42 Stat. 1448, limited amount of land any one person or corporation could be granted. Section 233, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 4, 42 Stat. 1448, provided for payment of royalties to United States. SAVINGS PROVISION Section 3 of act June 22, 1948, provided that the repeal of these sections is subject to existing valid rights. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 233a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 233a. Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is directed to retain in his custody until otherwise directed by law the 12(!1/2) per centum and other royalties heretofore or hereafter received by him in pursuance of section 233 (!1) of this title. -SOURCE- (Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 550, Sec. 2, 43 Stat. 1302.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 233 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act June 22, 1948, ch. 605, Sec. 3, 62 Stat. 576. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 234 to 236 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Secs. 234 to 236. Repealed. June 22, 1948, ch. 605, Sec. 3, 62 Stat. 576 -MISC1- Section 234, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 5, 42 Stat. 1449, provided for application of other laws to leases and permits granted under sections 230 to 233 and 234 to 236 of this title, and for disposition of lands and deposits remaining unappropriated and undisposed of. Section 235, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 6, 42 Stat. 1449, prohibited interference with certain lands in possession of receivers appointed by the Supreme Court. Section 236, act Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 249, Sec. 7, 42 Stat. 1450, authorized promulgation of rules and regulations necessary to accomplish purposes of sections 230 to 233 and 234 to 236 of this title. SAVINGS PROVISION Section 3 of act June 22, 1948, provided that the repeal of these sections is subject to existing valid rights. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 236a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 236a. Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws -STATUTE- Nothing in sections 185, 221,(!1) 223, 223a,(!1) and 226 of this title and this section shall be construed as affecting any lands within the borders of the naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves or agreements concerning operations thereunder or in relation to the same, but the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, with the consent of the President, to enter into agreements such as those provided for under sections 184 and 226 of this title, which agreement shall not, unless expressed therein, operate to extend the terms of any lease affected thereby. -SOURCE- (Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 599, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 679.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 221 of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the Code. Section 223a of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 14, 60 Stat. 958. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 236b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 236b. Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected -STATUTE- Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting existing leases within the borders of the naval petroleum reserves, or agreements concerning operations thereunder or in relation thereto. -SOURCE- (Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 13, 60 Stat. 958; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 53, 70A Stat. 675.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, 60 Stat. 950, as amended, which is classified generally to sections 181, 184, 187a, 187b, 188, 193, 209, 225, 226, 226c to 226e, 236b, and 285 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1956 - Act Aug. 10, 1956, repealed the portion of this section after "thereto" which authorized the Secretary of the Navy, with the consent of the President, to enter into agreements such as those provided for in section 236e of this title, which agreements, should not, unless expressed therein, operate to extend the term of any lease affected thereby. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 237 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IV - OIL AND GAS -HEAD- Sec. 237. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section, Pub. L. 95-372, title VI, Sec. 602, Sept. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 694, which required the Secretary of the Interior to submit annual reports to Congress on delinquent royalty accounts under leases issued under any Act regulating development of oil and gas on Federal lands, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 111 of House Document No. 103-7. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER V - OIL SHALE 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER V - OIL SHALE -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER V - OIL SHALE -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 241 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER V - OIL SHALE -HEAD- Sec. 241. Leases of lands -STATUTE- (a) Authorization; survey; terms, royalties and annual rentals; readjustments on renewals; rights of existing claimants; fraud of claimants The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to lease to any person or corporation qualified under this chapter any deposits of oil shale, and gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons) belonging to the United States and the surface of so much of the public lands containing such deposits, or land adjacent thereto, as may be required for the extraction and reduction of the leased minerals, under such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, as he may prescribe. No lease hereunder shall exceed five thousand one hundred and twenty acres of land, to be described by the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys, or if unsurveyed, to be surveyed by the United States, at the expense of the applicant, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Leases may be for indeterminate periods, upon such conditions as may be imposed by the Secretary of the Interior, including covenants relative to methods of mining, prevention of waste, and productive development. For the privilege of mining, extracting, and disposing of the oil or other minerals covered by a lease under this section the lessee shall pay to the United States such royalties as shall be specified in the lease and an annual rental, payable at the beginning of each year, at the rate of 50 cents per acre per annum, for the lands included in the lease, the rental paid for any one year to be credited against the royalties accruing for that year; such royalties to be subject to readjustment at the end of each twenty-year period by the Secretary of the Interior. For the purpose of encouraging the production of petroleum products from shales the Secretary may, in his discretion, waive the payment of any royalty and rental during the first five years of any lease. Any person having a valid claim to such minerals under existing laws on January 1, 1919, shall, upon the relinquishment of such claim, be entitled to a lease under the provisions of this section for such area of the land relinquished as shall not exceed the maximum area authorized by this section to be leased to an individual or corporation. No claimant for a lease who has been guilty of any fraud or who had knowledge or reasonable grounds to know of any fraud, or who has not acted honestly and in good faith, shall be entitled to any of the benefits of this section. Not more than one lease shall be granted under this section to any one person, association, or corporation except that with respect to leases for gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons) no person, association, or corporation shall acquire or hold more than seven thousand six hundred eighty acres in any one State without respect to the number of leases. (b) Offer for lease; deposits other than oil shale; questioned validity because of location; preference rights If an offer for a lease under the provisions of this section for deposits other than oil shale is based upon a mineral location, the validity of which might be questioned because the claim was based on a placer location rather than on a lode location, or vice versa, the offeror shall have a preference right to a lease if the offer is filed not more than one year after September 2, 1960. (c) (!1) Multiple use principal leases; gilsonite including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons With respect to gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons) a lease under the multiple use principle may issue notwithstanding the existence of an outstanding lease issued under any other provision of this chapter. (c) (!1) Offsite leases (1) The Secretary may within the State of Colorado lease to the holder of the Federal oil shale lease known as Federal Prototype Tract C-a additional lands necessary for the disposal of oil shale wastes and the materials removed from mined lands, and for the building of plants, reduction works, and other facilities connected with oil shale operations (which lease shall be referred to hereinafter as an "offsite lease"). The Secretary may only issue one offsite lease not to exceed six thousand four hundred acres. An offsite lease may not serve more than one Federal oil shale lease and may not be transferred except in conjunction with the transfer of the Federal oil shale lease that it serves. (2) The Secretary may issue one offsite lease of not more than three hundred and twenty acres to any person, association or corporation which has the right to develop oil shale on non-Federal lands. An offsite lease serving non-Federal oil shale land may not serve more than one oil shale operation and may not be transferred except in conjunction with the transfer of the non-Federal oil shale land that it serves. Not more than two offsite leases may be issued under this paragraph. (3) An offsite lease shall include no rights to any mineral deposits. (4) The Secretary may issue offsite leases after consideration of the need for such lands, impacts on the environment and other resource values, and upon a determination that the public interest will be served thereby. (5) An offsite lease for lands the surface of which is under the jurisdiction of a Federal agency other than the Department of the Interior shall be issued only with the consent of that other Federal agency and shall be subject to such terms and conditions as it may prescribe. (6) An offsite lease shall be for such periods of time and shall include such lands, subject to the acreage limitations contained in this subsection, as the Secretary determines to be necessary to achieve the purposes for which the lease is issued, and shall contain such provisions as he determines are needed for protection of environmental and other resource values. (7) An offsite lease shall provide for the payment of an annual rental which shall reflect the fair market value of the rights granted and which shall be subject to such revisions as the Secretary, in his discretion, determines may be needed from time to time to continue to reflect the fair market value. (8) An offsite lease may, at the option of the lessee, include provisions for payments in any year which payments shall be credited against any portion of the annual rental for a subsequent year to the extent that such payment is payable by the Secretary of the Treasury under section 191 of this title to the State within the boundaries of which the leased lands are located. Such funds shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the appropriate State in accordance with section 191 of this title, and such funds shall be distributed by the State only to those counties, municipalities, or jurisdictional subdivisions impacted by oil shale development and/or where the lease is sited. (9) An offsite lease shall remain subject to leasing under the other provisions of this chapter where such leasing would not be incompatible with the offsite lease. (d) Considerations governing issuance of offsite lease In recognition of the unique character of oil shale development: (1) In determining whether to offer or issue an offsite lease under subsection (c) of this section, the Secretary shall consult with the Governor and appropriate State, local, and tribal officials of the State where the lands to be leased are located, and of any additional State likely to be affected significantly by the social, economic, or environmental effects of development under such lease, in order to coordinate Federal and State planning processes, minimize duplication of permits, avoid delays, and anticipate and mitigate likely impacts of development. (2) The Secretary may issue an offsite lease under subsection (d) (!2) after consideration of (A) the need for leasing, (B) impacts on the environment and other resource values, (C) socioeconomic factors, and (D) information from consultations with the Governors of the affected States. (3) Before determining whether to offer an offsite lease under subsection (c) of this section, the Secretary shall seek the recommendation of the Governor of the State in which the lands to be leased are located as to whether or not to lease such lands, what alternative actions are available, and what special conditions could be added to the proposed lease to mitigate impacts. The Secretary shall accept the recommendations of the Governor if he determines that they provide for a reasonable balance between the national interest and the State's interests. The Secretary shall communicate to the Governor, in writing, and publish in the Federal Register the reasons for his determination to accept or reject such Governor's recommendations. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 21, 41 Stat. 445; Pub. L. 86-705, Sec. 7, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(1), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1070; Pub. L. 97-394, title III, Sec. 318, Dec. 30, 1982, 96 Stat. 1999.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1982 - Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 97-394 added subsecs. (c) and (d). 1981 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-78 substituted "and gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons)" and "gilsonite (including all vein-type hydrocarbons)" for "native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)". Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97-78 substituted "gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons)" for "native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)". 1960 - Pub. L. 86-705 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c). Other changes included addition of native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock within the scope of the section, and insertion of the limitation upon such holdings. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) Two subsecs. (c) have been enacted. (!2) So in original. Probably should be subsection "(c)". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 242 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER V - OIL SHALE -HEAD- Sec. 242. Oil shale claims -STATUTE- (a) Notice Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 60 days from October 24, 1992, the Secretary of the Interior shall provide notice to each holder of an unpatented oil shale mining claim of the requirements of this Act. Such notice shall be made by registered mail and by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the areas in which such claims are located. (b) Full patent The holder of a valid oil shale mining claim who has filed a patent application and received first half final certificate for patent by October 24, 1992, may obtain a patent pursuant to the general mining laws of the United States. (c) Patent (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the holder of a valid oil shale mining claim who has filed a patent application which has been accepted for processing by the Department of the Interior by October 24, 1992, but has not received first half final certificate for patent by October 24, 1992, may receive only a patent limited to the oil shale and associated minerals, upon payment of $2.50 per acre. Title to the surface and to all other minerals, including, but not limited to, oil, gas, and coal, shall remain in the United States. Patents issued pursuant to this subsection shall provide for surface use to the same extent as is provided under applicable law prior to October 24, 1992, with respect to oil shale mining claims, subject to the requirements of subsection (f) of this section. (2) Maintenance of claims referred to in this subsection prior to patent issuance shall be in accordance with the requirements of applicable law prior to October 24, 1992. (3) Any holder of a valid oil shale mining claim referred to in this subsection may maintain such claim in accordance with the requirements set forth in subsection (e)(2) of this section in lieu of receiving a patent under this section. (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person referred to in paragraph (1) who obtains compensation from the United States as a result of the application of this section being declared to be a taking of property within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, may obtain a full patent upon tender to the Secretary of the amount of such compensation, not including interest, and upon the receipt of such amount, the Secretary shall convey to such person a patent in the form and manner provided under the general mining laws of the United States. Such tender may only be made within 3 years of obtaining such compensation. (d) Election (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 180 days from the date of which the Secretary provided notice under subsection (a) of this section, a holder of a valid oil shale mining claim for which a patent application was not filed and accepted for processing by the Department of the Interior prior to October 24, 1992, shall file with the Secretary a notice of election to - (A) proceed to limited patent as provided in subsection (e)(1) of this section; or (B) maintain the unpatented claim as provided for in subsection (e)(2) of this section. (2) Failure to file the notice of election as required by paragraph (1) shall be deemed conclusively to constitute an abandonment of the claim by operation of law. (3) Any claim holder who elects to proceed under paragraph (1)(A) must apply for a patent within 2 years from the date of election or notify the Secretary in writing prior to expiration of the 2-year period of a decision to maintain such claim as provided in paragraph (1)(B) or such claim shall be deemed conclusively to have been abandoned by operation of law. (4) The provisions of this subsection shall be in addition to the requirements of section 1744 of title 43. (e) Effect of election (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a claim holder subject to the election requirements of subsection (d) of this section who elects to receive a limited patent shall receive title only to the oil shale associated minerals, upon payment of fair market value for the oil shale and associated minerals. Title to the surface and to all other minerals, including, but not limited to oil, gas, and coal, shall remain in the United States. Patents issued pursuant to this subsection shall provide for surface use to the same extent as is provided under applicable law prior to October 24, 1992, with respect to oil shale mining claims, subject to the requirements of subsection (f) of this section. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a claim holder referred to in subsection (c) of this section or a claim holder subject to the election requirements of subsection (d) of this section who maintains or elects to maintain an unpatented claim shall maintain such claim by complying with the general mining laws of the United States, and with the provisions of this section, except that the claim holder shall no longer be required to perform annual labor, and instead shall pay to the Secretary $550 per claim per year for deposit as miscellaneous receipts in the general fund of the Treasury, commencing with calendar year 1993. Such fee shall accompany the filing made by the claim holder with the Bureau of Land Management pursuant to section 1744(a)(2) of title 43. (f) Reclamation In addition to other applicable requirements, any person who holds a limited patent or maintains a claim pursuant to this section shall be required to carry out reclamation as prescribed by the Secretary and to furnish a bond or other appropriate financial guarantee in an amount sufficient to ensure adequate reclamation of the lands to be disturbed by any aspect of the proposed mining activities. (g) Reaffirmation of requirements Without comment on the adequacy of current or former standards for determining validity of oil shale claims, Congress reaffirms the requirements of law that a patent may issue only to persons who hold valid claims and the need for careful review of any applications. (h) Issuance of patents Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to any oil shale mining claim located under the general mining laws of the United States, no patent for such claim shall be issued except as provided by this section. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 102-486, title XXV, Sec. 2511, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3109.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 102-486, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2776, known as the Energy Policy Act of 1992. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 13201 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and not as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 28f of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER VI - ALASKA OIL PROVISO 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VI - ALASKA OIL PROVISO -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER VI - ALASKA OIL PROVISO -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 251 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VI - ALASKA OIL PROVISO -HEAD- Sec. 251. Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants -STATUTE- Any bona fide occupant or claimant of oil or gas bearing lands in the Territory of Alaska, who, or whose predecessors in interest, prior to withdrawal had complied otherwise with the requirements of the mining laws, but had made no discovery of oil or gas in wells and who prior to withdrawal had made substantial improvements for the discovery of oil or gas on or for each location or had prior to February 25, 1920 expended not less than $250 in improvements on or for each location shall be entitled, upon relinquishment or surrender to the United States within one year from February 25, 1920, or within six months after final denial or withdrawal of application for patent, to a lease or leases, under this chapter covering such lands, not exceeding five leases in number and not exceeding an aggregate of one thousand two hundred and eighty acres in each: Provided, That the annual lease rentals for lands in the Territory of Alaska not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field and the royalty payments from production of oil or gas sold or removed from such lands shall be identical with those prescribed for such leases covering similar lands in the States of the United States, except that leases which may issue pursuant to applications or offers to lease such lands, which applications or offers were filed prior to and were pending on May 3, 1958, shall require the payment of 25 cents per acre as lease rental for the first year of such leases; but the aforesaid exception shall not apply in any way to royalties to be required under leases which may issue pursuant to offers or applications filed prior to May 3, 1958. The Secretary of the Interior shall neither prescribe nor approve any cooperative or unit plan of development or operation nor any operating, drilling, or development contract establishing different royalty or rental rates for Alaska lands than for similar lands within the States of the United States. No claimant for a lease who has been guilty of any fraud or who had knowledge or reasonable grounds to know of any fraud, or who has not acted honestly and in good faith, shall be entitled to any of the benefits of this section. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 22, 41 Stat. 446; Pub. L. 85-505, Sec. 10, July 3, 1958, 72 Stat. 324.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1958 - Pub. L. 85-505 struck out provisions which related to prospecting permits, provided that the annual lease rentals and royalty payments shall be identical with those prescribed for leases covering similar lands in the States of the United States, permitted a payment of 25 cents per acre as lease rental for the first year of the lease in those leases issued pursuant to applications or offers filed prior to and pending on May 3, 1958, and prohibited the Secretary from prescribing or approving any cooperative or unit plan of development or operation or any operating, drilling, or development contract establishing different royalty or rental rates for Alaska lands than for similar lands within the States of the United States. ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM -SECREF- SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This subchapter is referred to in section 284 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 261 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM -HEAD- Sec. 261. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 23, 41 Stat. 447; Dec. 11, 1928, ch. 19, 45 Stat. 1019.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1928 - Act Dec. 11, 1928, struck out "and directed" after "authorized", "dissolved in and soluble in water, and accumulated by concentration, in lands belonging to the United States for a period not exceeding two years," after "nitrates of sodium", and last proviso which read "Provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands in San Bernardino County, California." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 262 of this title; title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 262 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM -HEAD- Sec. 262. Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals -STATUTE- Upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of one of the substances enumerated in section 261 of this title have been discovered by the permittee within the area covered by his permit and that such land is chiefly valuable therefor, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit at a royalty of not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and other related products at the point of shipment to market; the lands in such lease to be taken in compact form by legal subdivisions of the public land surveys or, if the land be not surveyed, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Lands known to contain valuable deposits of one of the substances enumerated in section 261 of this title and not covered by permits or leases shall be subject to lease by the Secretary of the Interior through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt and in such areas as he shall fix, not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres. All leases under this section shall be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such royalty as may be fixed in the lease, not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and other related products at the point of shipment to market, and the payment in advance of a rental of 25 cents per acre for the first calendar year or fraction thereof, 50 cents per acre for the second, third, fourth, and fifth calendar years respectively; and $1 per acre per annum thereafter during the continuance of the lease, such rental for any one year to be credited against royalties accruing for that year. Leases under this section shall be for a period of twenty years, with preferential right in the lessee to renew for successive periods of ten years upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior unless otherwise provided by law at the expiration of such period: Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the mining and sale of sodium compounds under potassium leases issued pursuant to subchapter VII [Sec. 141 et seq.] of chapter 3 of this title and subchapter IX of this chapter, nor the mining and sale of potassium compounds as a byproduct from sodium leases taken under this section: Provided further, That on application by any lessee the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to modify the rental and royalty provisions stipulated in any existing sodium lease to conform to the provisions of this section. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 24, 41 Stat. 447; Dec. 11, 1928, ch. 19, 45 Stat. 1019.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Subchapter VII [Sec. 141 et seq.] of chapter 3 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 1058. Subchapter IX of this chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "act February 7, 1927 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 1057)" meaning act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted subchapter IX (Sec. 281 et seq.) of this chapter, amended sections 181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1928 - Act Dec. 11, 1928, amended section generally. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 263 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VII - SODIUM -HEAD- Sec. 263. Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage -STATUTE- In addition to areas of such mineral land which may be included in any such prospecting permits or leases, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may grant to a permittee or lessee of lands containing sodium deposits, and subject to the payment of an annual rental of not less than 25 cents per acre, the exclusive right to use, during the life of the permit or lease, a tract of unoccupied nonmineral public land, not exceeding forty acres in area, for camp sites, refining works, and other purposes connected with and necessary to the proper development and use of the deposits covered by the permit or lease. -SOURCE- (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 25, 41 Stat. 447.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 10 sections 7421, 7435. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -SECREF- SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This subchapter is referred to in sections 351, 352, 505, 530, 541e of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 271 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 271. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for sulphur in lands belonging to the United States located in the States of Louisiana and New Mexico for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall be not exceeding six hundred and forty acres of land in reasonably compact form. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 301; July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 47 Stat. 701.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1932 - Act July 16, 1932, substituted "States of Louisiana and New Mexico" for "State of Louisiana". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 272 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 272. Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees -STATUTE- Upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of sulphur have been discovered by the permittee within the area covered by his permit, and that the land is chiefly valuable therefor, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit, at a royalty of 5 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of sulphur at the point of shipment to market, such lease to be taken in compact form by legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys; or if the land be not surveyed, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That where any person having been granted an oil and gas permit makes a discovery of sulphur in lands covered by said permit, he shall have the same privilege of leasing not to exceed six hundred and forty acres of said land under the same terms and conditions as are given a sulphur permittee under the provisions of this section. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 301.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 273 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 273. Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental -STATUTE- Lands known to contain valuable deposits of sulphur and not covered by permits or leases shall be held subject to lease by the Secretary of the Interior through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt and in such areas as he shall fix, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres; all leases to be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such royalty as may be fixed in the lease and the payment in advance of a rental of 50 cents per acre per annum, the rental paid for any one year to be credited against the royalties accruing for that year. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 3, 44 Stat. 301.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 274 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 274. Lands containing coal or other minerals -STATUTE- Prospecting permits or leases may be issued in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this subchapter for deposits of sulphur in public lands also containing coal or other minerals on condition that such other deposits be reserved to the United States for disposal under applicable laws. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 4, 44 Stat. 302.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 275 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 275. Laws applicable -STATUTE- The general provisions of sections 181 to 184, 185 to 188, 189 to 192, 193, and 194 (!1) of this title, are made applicable to permits and leases under this subchapter, sections 181 and 193 of this title being amended to include deposits of sulphur, and section 184 of this title being amended so as to prohibit any person, association, or corporation from taking or holding more than three sulphur permits or leases in any one State during the life of such permits or leases. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 5, 44 Stat. 302.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 194 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 644. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 276 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER VIII - SULPHUR -HEAD- Sec. 276. Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only -STATUTE- The provisions of this subchapter shall apply only to the States of Louisiana and New Mexico. -SOURCE- (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 302; July 16, 1932, ch. 498, 47 Stat. 701.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1932 - Act July 16, 1932, substituted "States of Louisiana and New Mexico" for "State of Louisiana". -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -SECREF- SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This subchapter is referred to in sections 262, 351, 505, 530, 541e of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 281 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 281. Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form: Provided further, That the prospecting provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to lands and deposits in or adjacent to Searles Lake, California, which lands may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms and provisions of this subchapter. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 1057.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original "this Act", meaning act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted this subchapter, amended sections 181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 282 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 282. Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty -STATUTE- Upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of one of the substances enumerated in this subchapter has been discovered by the permittee within the area covered by his permit, and that such land is chiefly valuable therefor, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit, at a royalty of not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of potassium compounds and other related products, except sodium, at the point of shipment to market, such lease to be taken in compact form by legal subdivisions of the public land surveys, or if the land be not surveyed, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 1057.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 283 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 283. Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations -STATUTE- Lands known to contain valuable deposits enumerated in this subchapter and not covered by permits or leases shall be held subject to lease by the Secretary of the Interior through advertisement, competitive bidding, or such other methods as he may by general regulations adopt, and in such areas as he shall fix, not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres; all leases to be conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of such royalty as may be fixed in the lease, not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of potassium compounds and other related products, except sodium, at the point of shipment to market, and the payment in advance of a rental of 25 cents per acre for the first calendar year or fraction thereof; 50 cents per acre for the second, third, fourth, and fifth years, respectively; and $1 per acre per annum thereafter during the continuance of the lease, such rental for any year being credited against royalties accruing for that year. Any lease issued under this subchapter shall be for a term of twenty years and so long thereafter as the lessee complies with the terms and conditions of the lease and upon the further condition that at the end of each twenty-year period succeeding the date of the lease such reasonable adjustment of the terms and conditions thereof may be made therein as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior unless otherwise provided by law at the expiration of such periods. Leases shall be conditioned upon a minimum annual production or the payment of a minimum royalty in lieu thereof, except when production is interrupted by strikes, the elements, or casualties not attributable to the lessee. The Secretary of the Interior may permit suspension of operations under any such leases when marketing conditions are such that the leases cannot be operated except at a loss. The Secretary upon application by the lessee prior to the expiration of any existing lease in good standing shall amend such lease to provide for the same tenure and to contain the same conditions, including adjustment at the end of each twenty-year period succeeding the date of said lease, as provided for in this subchapter. In the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior the area involved in any lease resulting from a prospecting permit may be exempt from any rental in excess of 25 cents per acre for twenty years succeeding its issue, and the production of potassium compounds under such a lease may be exempt from any royalty in excess of the minimum prescribed in this subchapter for the same period. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 3, 44 Stat. 1057; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, Sec. 9, 62 Stat. 292.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1948 - Act June 3, 1948, increased renewal term from ten to twenty years, provided for reasonable adjustment of terms, provided minimum conditions, and permitted suspension of operations under certain conditions. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 284 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 284. Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases -STATUTE- Prospecting permits or leases may be issued under the provisions of this subchapter for deposits of potassium in public lands, also containing deposits of coal or other minerals, on condition that such other deposits be reserved to the United States for disposal under appropriate laws: Provided, That if the interests of the Government and of the lessee will be subserved thereby, potassium leases may include covenants providing for the development by the lessee of chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, magnesium, aluminum, or calcium, associated with the potassium deposits leased, on terms and conditions not inconsistent with the sodium provisions of subchapter VII of this chapter: Provided further, That where valuable deposits of mineral now subject to disposition under the general mining laws are found in fissure veins on any of the lands subject to permit or lease under this subchapter, the valuable minerals so found shall continue subject to disposition under the said general mining laws notwithstanding the presence of potash therein. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 4, 44 Stat. 1058.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The sodium provisions of subchapter VII of this chapter, referred to in text, was in the original "the sodium provisions of the Act of February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437)", which means sections 23 to 25 of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 447, which are classified to subchapter VII (Sec. 261 et seq.) of this chapter. -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 285 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 285. Laws applicable -STATUTE- The general provisions of sections 182 to 184, 185 to 188, 189 to 192, 193, and 194 (!1) of this title, are made applicable to permits and leases under this subchapter. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 5, 44 Stat. 1058; Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, Sec. 11, 60 Stat. 957.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 194 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 644. -COD- CODIFICATION Provision of this section that section 193 of this title was amended to include deposits of potassium was omitted from this section as executed to section 193 of this title. Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1946 - Act Aug. 8, 1946, struck out reference to section 181 of this title. SAVINGS PROVISION See note set out under section 181 of this title. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 286 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 286. Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases -STATUTE- All money received from royalties and rentals from any lease issued or renewed under the provisions of subchapter VII of chapter 3 of this title, shall be paid into, reserved, and appropriated as follows: 52 1/2 per centum to the Reclamation Fund, 10 per centum to the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts, and 37 1/2 per centum shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, after the expiration of each fiscal year, to the State within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits are or were located, such money to be used by such State or subdivision thereof for the construction and maintenance of public roads or for the support of schools or other public educational institutions, as the legislature of the State may direct. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 1058; June 1, 1948, ch. 356, 62 Stat. 279.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Subchapter VII of chapter 3, referred to in text, was in the original "the Act entitled 'An Act to authorize exploration for and disposition of potassium' approved October 2, 1917", meaning act Oct. 2, 1917, ch. 62, 40 Stat. 297, which was classified to subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title and which was repealed by act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 1058. -COD- CODIFICATION Section is composed of the second sentence of section 6 of act Feb. 7, 1927, as added by act June 1, 1948. The first sentence of section 6 repealed former sections 141 to 152 of this title and did not affect pending applications for permits or leases filed prior to Jan. 1, 1926, or valid claims existent on Feb. 7, 1927, and thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims could be perfected under such laws, including discovery. Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 287 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 3A - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS SUBCHAPTER IX - POTASH -HEAD- Sec. 287. Extension of prospecting permits -STATUTE- Any prospecting permit issued under this subchapter may be extended by the Secretary of the Interior for a period not exceeding two years, upon a showing of satisfactory cause. -SOURCE- (Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, Sec. 7, as added May 7, 1932, ch. 174, 47 Stat. 151.) -COD- CODIFICATION Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS -HEAD- CHAPTER 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS -MISC1- Sec. 291. Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims. 292. Royalties and rentals; disposition. 293. Duties of Secretary of the Interior. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 291 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 291. Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims -STATUTE- All gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits, or mines or minerals of the same on lands embraced within any land claim confirmed or hereafter confirmed by decree of the Court of Private Land Claims, and which did not convey the mineral rights to the grantee by the terms of the grant, and to which such grantee has not become otherwise entitled in law or in equity, may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior to the grantee, or to those claiming through or under him, for a period of twenty years, with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for successive periods of ten years, upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such periods. -SOURCE- (June 8, 1926, ch. 503, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 710.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 292 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 292. Royalties and rentals; disposition -STATUTE- For the privilege of mining or extracting the gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits in the land covered by such lease, the lessee shall pay to the United States a royalty, which shall not be less than 5 per centum nor more than 12 1/2 per centum of the net value of the output of the gold, silver, or quicksilver at the mine, due and payable at the end of each month succeeding that of the extraction of the minerals from the mine. All moneys received from royalties and rentals under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and disposed of in the same manner as rentals and royalties under the provisions of section 191 of this title. -SOURCE- (June 8, 1926, ch. 503, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 710.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 293 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 4 - LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 293. Duties of Secretary of the Interior -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying this chapter into full force and effect. -SOURCE- (June 8, 1926, ch. 503, Sec. 3, 44 Stat. 710.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -MISC1- Sec. 301. Authorization for lease of oil and gas deposits; by and to whom leased. 302. Assignment of lease; subletting. 303. Conditions precedent to award of lease; preferred class; bidding. 304. Provisions authorized in lease. 305. Royalties under lease. 306. Rules and regulations. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 301 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- Sec. 301. Authorization for lease of oil and gas deposits; by and to whom leased -STATUTE- Whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall deem it to be consistent with the public interest he is authorized to lease deposits of oil and gas in or under lands embraced in railroad or other rights of way acquired under any law of the United States, whether the same be a base fee or mere easement: Provided, That, except as hereinafter authorized, no lease shall be executed hereunder except to the municipality, corporation, firm, association, or individual by whom such right of way was acquired, or to the lawful successor, assignee, or transferee of such municipality, corporation, firm, association, or individual. -SOURCE- (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 373.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 303 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 302 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- Sec. 302. Assignment of lease; subletting -STATUTE- The right conferred by this chapter may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be assigned or sublet by the owner thereof to any corporation, firm, association, or individual. -SOURCE- (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 373.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 303 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- Sec. 303. Conditions precedent to award of lease; preferred class; bidding -STATUTE- Prior to the award of any lease under section 301 of this title, the Secretary of the Interior shall notify the owner or lessee of adjoining lands and allow him a reasonable time, to be fixed in the notice given, within which to submit an offer or bid of the amount or percentage of compensatory royalty that such owner will agree to pay for the extraction through wells on his or its adjoining land, of the oil or gas under and from such adjoining right of way, and at the same time afford the holder of the railroad or other right of way a like opportunity within the same time to submit its bid or offer as to the amount or percentage of royalty it will agree to pay, if a lease for the extraction of the oil and gas deposits under the right of way be awarded to the holder of such right of way. In case of competing offers by the said parties in interest, the Secretary shall award the right to extract the oil and gas to the bidder, duly qualified, making the offer in his opinion most advantageous to the United States. In case but one bid or offer is received after notice duly given, he may, in his discretion, award the right to extract the oil and gas to such bidder. -SOURCE- (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 374.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 304 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- Sec. 304. Provisions authorized in lease -STATUTE- Any lease granted by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to this chapter may, in the discretion of said Secretary, contain a provision giving the lessee the right, with the approval of said Secretary, to shut down the operation of any well or wells the operation of which has become unprofitable, to resume operations when such resumption may result in profit, and to abandon any well or wells that cease to produce oil and/or gas in paying quantities. -SOURCE- (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 374.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 305 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- Sec. 305. Royalties under lease -STATUTE- The royalty to be paid to the United States under any lease to be issued, or agreement made pursuant to this chapter, shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, in no case to be less than 12 1/2 per centum in amount or value of the production, nor for more than twenty years: Provided, That when the oil or gas is produced from land adjacent to the right of way the amount or value of the royalty to be paid to the United States shall be within the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That when the daily average production of any oil well does not exceed ten barrels per day said Secretary may, in his discretion, reduce the royalty on subsequent production. -SOURCE- (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 5, 46 Stat. 374.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 306 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY -HEAD- Sec. 306. Rules and regulations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations governing the exercise of the discretion and authority conferred by this chapter, which rules and regulations shall constitute a part of any application or lease hereunder. -SOURCE- (May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 6, 46 Stat. 374.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 6 - SYNTHETIC LIQUID FUEL DEMONSTRATION PLANTS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 6 - SYNTHETIC LIQUID FUEL DEMONSTRATION PLANTS -HEAD- CHAPTER 6 - SYNTHETIC LIQUID FUEL DEMONSTRATION PLANTS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 321 to 325 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 6 - SYNTHETIC LIQUID FUEL DEMONSTRATION PLANTS -HEAD- Secs. 321 to 325. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 321, acts Apr. 5, 1944, ch. 172, Sec. 1, 58 Stat. 190; Mar. 15, 1948, ch. 117, 62 Stat. 79; Sept. 22, 1950, ch. 988, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 905, authorized the Secretary of the Interior for not more than eleven years to construct, maintain, and operate plants producing synthetic liquid fuel from coal, oil shale, agricultural and forestry products and prescribed the size of the plants and amount of production. Section 322, act Apr. 5, 1944, ch. 172, Sec. 2, 58 Stat. 190, in order to carry out the 11 year demonstration plant program, authorized laboratory research and development, acquisition by purchase of license of secret processes, inventions, etc., acquisition of land, plants, etc., contracting for personnel, and cooperation with other Federal and State agencies. See note for section 321 above. Section 323, acts Apr. 5, 1944, ch. 172, Sec. 3, 58 Stat. 191; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, Sec. 4(2), 65 Stat. 709, related to licenses and patent rights under the 11 year demonstration plant program. See note for section 321 above. Section 324, act Apr. 5, 1944, ch. 172, Sec. 4, 58 Stat. 191, provided that moneys received under this chapter for products and royalties from the 11 year demonstration plant program be paid into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts and a report to Congress on all operations under this chapter be rendered by the Secretary on or before the first day of January of each year. See note for section 321 above. Section 325, act Apr. 5, 1944, ch. 172, Sec. 5, 58 Stat. 191, authorized the Secretary to issue rules and regulations to carry out the 11 year demonstration plant program under this chapter and provided that the authority and duties of the Secretary be exercised through the Bureau of Mines. See note for section 321 above. -MISC1- AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS Section 6 of act Apr. 5, 1944, as amended by acts Mar. 15, 1948, and Sept. 22, 1950, Sec. 1, authorized appropriations of not to exceed $87,600,000 to carry out the provisions of this chapter. MORGANTOWN, W. VA., EXPERIMENT STATION Section 2 of act Sept. 22, 1950, provided that out of the $87,600,000 authorized to carry out this chapter, not to exceed $2,600,000 be used for the construction and equipment of an experiment station in or near Morgantown, West Virginia, for research in mining, preparation, and utilization of coal, petroleum, natural gas, peat, and other minerals. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -MISC1- Sec. 351. Definitions. 352. Deposits subject to lease; consent of department heads; lands excluded. 353. Sale of lands unaffected; reservation of mineral rights; sale subject to prior lease; naval petroleum reserves unaffected. 354. Lease of partial or future interests in deposits. 355. Disposition of receipts. 356. Furnishing description of lands and title documents; recordation of documents; authenticated copies. 357. State or local government rights; taxation. 358. Rights under prior leases; priority of pending applications; exchange of leases. 359. Rules and regulations. 360. Authority to manage certain mineral leases. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in sections 188, 192c, 541d, 1003, 1005 of this title; title 16 sections 90c-1, 283b, 460q-5, 460v-4, 460dd-2; title 33 section 701c-3. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 351 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 351. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in this chapter "United States" includes Alaska. "Acquired lands" or "lands acquired by the United States" include all lands heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States to which the "mineral leasing laws" have not been extended, including such lands acquired under the provisions of the Act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961, 16 U.S.C., sec. 552). "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior, "Mineral leasing laws" shall mean the Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741, 48 U.S.C., sec. 432); the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437, 30 U.S.C., sec. 181); the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301, 30 U.S.C., sec. 271); the Act of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057, 30 U.S.C., sec. 281), and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts. "Lease" includes "prospecting permit" unless the context otherwise requires. The term "oil" shall embrace all nongaseous hydrocarbon substances other than those leasable as coal, oil shale, or gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons). -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 913; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(9)(a), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1072.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of March 1, 1911, referred to in text, is act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, as amended, known as the Weeks Law, which is classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 552 of Title 16 and Tables. Act of October 20, 1914, referred to in text, is act Oct. 20, 1914, ch. 330, 38 Stat. 741, known as the Alaska Coal Lands Act, which was repealed by Pub. L. 86-252, Sec. 1, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 490. The subject matter of this Act is generally covered by subchapters I to VII (Sec. 181 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code prior to repeal, see Tables. Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. Act of April 17, 1926, referred to in text, is act Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, 44 Stat. 301, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter VIII (Sec. 271 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Act of February 7, 1927, referred to in text, is act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted subchapter IX (Sec. 281 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title, amended sections 181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1981 - Pub. L. 97-78 inserted definition of "oil". SHORT TITLE Section 1 of act Aug. 7, 1947, provided: "That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the 'Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands'." ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS; DEFINITION Definition of "outer Continental Shelf" with respect to jurisdiction of United States, and mineral leases on submerged lands of such shelf, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 356 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 352 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 352. Deposits subject to lease; consent of department heads; lands excluded -STATUTE- Except where lands have been acquired by the United States for the development of the mineral deposits, by foreclosure or otherwise for resale, or reported as surplus pursuant to the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of October 3, 1944 (50 U.S.C., sec. 1611 and the following), all deposits of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), gas, sodium, potassium, and sulfur which are owned or may hereafter be acquired by the United States and which are within the lands acquired by the United States (exclusive of such deposits in such acquired lands as are (a) situated within incorporated cities, towns and villages, national parks or monuments, or (b) tidelands or submerged lands) may be leased by the Secretary under the same conditions as contained in the leasing provisions of the mineral leasing laws, subject to the provisions hereof. Coal or lignite under acquired lands set apart for military or naval purposes may be leased by the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense, to a governmental entity (including any corporation primarily acting as an agency or instrumentality of a State) which produces electrical energy for sale to the public if such governmental entity is located in the State in which such lands are located. The provisions of subchapter VIII of chapter 3A of this title shall apply to deposits of sulfur covered by this chapter wherever situated. No mineral deposit covered by this section shall be leased except with the consent of the head of the executive department, independent establishment, or instrumentality having jurisdiction over the lands containing such deposit, or holding a mortgage or deed of trust secured by such lands which is unsatisfied of record, and subject to such conditions as that official may prescribe to insure the adequate utilization of the lands for the primary purposes for which they have been acquired or are being administered: Provided, That nothing in this chapter is intended, or shall be construed, to apply to or in any manner affect any mineral rights, exploration permits, leases or conveyances nor minerals that are or may be in any tidelands; or submerged lands; or in lands underlying the three mile zone or belt involved in the case of the United States of America against the State of California now pending on application for rehearing in the Supreme Court of the United States; or in lands underlying such three mile zone or belt, or the continental shelf, adjacent or littoral to any part of the land within the jurisdiction of the United States of America. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 3, 61 Stat. 914; Pub. L. 94-377, Sec. 12, Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090; Pub. L. 97-78, Sec. 1(9)(b), Nov. 16, 1981, 95 Stat. 1072.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Surplus Property Act of October 3, 1944, referred to in text, is act Oct. 3, 1944, ch. 479, 58 Stat. 765, which was classified principally to sections 1611 to 1646 of Title 50, Appendix, War and National Defense, and was repealed, effective July 1, 1949, with the exception of sections 1622, 1631, 1637, and 1641 of Title 50, Appendix, by act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VI, Sec. 602(a)(1), 63 Stat. 399, renumbered Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Sec. 6(a), (b), 64 Stat. 583. Sections 1622 and 1641 were partially repealed by the 1949 act, and section 1622 is still set out in part in Title 50, Appendix. Section 1622(g) was repealed and reenacted as sections 47151 to 47153 of Title 49, Transportation, by Pub. L. 103-272, Secs. 1(e), 7(b), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1278-1280, 1379. Section 1631 was repealed by act June 7, 1939, ch. 190, Sec. 6(e), as added by act July 23, 1946, ch. 590, 60 Stat. 599, and is covered by sections 98 et seq. of Title 50. Section 1637 was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, Sec. 21, 62 Stat. 862, eff. Sept. 1, 1948, and is covered by section 3287 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Provisions of section 1641 not repealed by the 1949 act were repealed by Pub. L. 87-256, Sec. 111(a)(1), Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 538, and are covered by chapter 33 (Sec. 2451 et seq.) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse. The provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944 originally repealed by the 1949 act were covered by provisions of the 1949 act which were classified to chapter 10 (Sec. 471 et seq.) of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and which were repealed and reenacted by Pub. L. 107-217, Secs. 1, 6(b), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062, 1304, as chapters 1 to 11 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. For definition of "mineral leasing laws", see section 351 of this title. Subchapter VIII (Sec. 271 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to the provisions of the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301), as heretofore or hereafter amended. The application for rehearing in the case of the United States of America against the State of California, referred to in text, was denied on Oct. 13, 1947, by the Supreme Court of the United States. See 68 S. Ct. 37, 332 U.S. 787, 92 L. Ed. 370. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1981 - Pub. L. 97-78 inserted reference to gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons). 1976 - Pub. L. 94-377 substituted "or (b)" for "(b) set apart for military or naval purposes, or (c)" and inserted provision allowing the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense, to lease coal or lignite under lands set aside for military purposes to a governmental entity which produces electrical energy for sale to the public if such governmental entity is located in the State in which such lands are located. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; LEASES Grant by Secretary of the Interior of oil, gas, and other mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 226, 354, 1272 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 353 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 353. Sale of lands unaffected; reservation of mineral rights; sale subject to prior lease; naval petroleum reserves unaffected -STATUTE- Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to (a) amend, modify, or change any existing law authorizing or requiring the sale of acquired lands, or (b) empower any commission, bureau, or agency of the Government to make a reservation of the minerals in the sale of any acquired land: Provided, That any such sale or conveyance of lands shall be made by the agency having jurisdiction thereof, subject to any lease theretofore made, covering the mineral deposits underlying such lands: Provided further, That nothing in this chapter is intended, or shall be construed to affect in any manner any provision of chapter 641 of title 10. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 4, 61 Stat. 914.) -COD- CODIFICATION "Chapter 641 of title 10" substituted in text for "the Act of June 30, 1938 (32 Stat. 1252), amending the Act of June 4, 1920 (41 Stat. 813)", which had been classified to section 524 of former Title 34, Navy, on authority of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, Sec. 49(b), 70A Stat. 640, the first section of which enacted Title 10, Armed Forces. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 354 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 354. Lease of partial or future interests in deposits -STATUTE- Where the United States does not own all of the mineral deposits under any lands sought to be leased and which are affected by this chapter, the Secretary is authorized to lease the interest of the United States in any such mineral deposits when, in the judgment of the Secretary, the public interest will be best served thereby; subject, however, to the provisions of section 352 of this title. Where the United States does not own any interest or owns less than a full interest in the minerals that may be produced from any lands sought to be leased, and which are or will be affected by this chapter and where, under the provisions of its acquisition, the United States is to acquire all or any part of such mineral deposits in the future, the Secretary may lease any interest of the United States then owned or to be acquired in the future in the same manner as provided in the preceding sentence. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 5, 61 Stat. 914.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 25 section 459c. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 355 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 355. Disposition of receipts -STATUTE- (a) Subject to the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), all receipts derived from leases issued under the authority of this chapter shall be paid into the same funds or accounts in the Treasury and shall be distributed in the same manner as prescribed for other receipts from the lands affected by the lease, the intention of this provision being that this chapter shall not affect the distribution of receipts pursuant to legislation applicable to such lands: Provided, however, That receipts from leases or permits for minerals in lands set apart for Indian use, including lands the jurisdiction of which has been transferred to the Department of the Interior by the Executive order for Indian use, shall be deposited in a special fund in the Treasury until final disposition thereof by the Congress. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, all receipts derived from leases on lands acquired for military or naval purposes, except the naval petroleum reserves and national oil shale reserves, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and disposed of in the same manner as provided under section 35 of the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 450; 30 U.S.C. 191), in the case of receipts from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of the public lands under that Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.]. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any payment to a State under this section shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior and shall be made not later than the last business day of the month following the month in which such moneys or associated reports are received by the Secretary of the Interior, whichever is later. The preceding sentence shall also apply to any payment to a State derived from a lease for mineral resources issued by the Secretary of the Interior under section 520 of title 16. The Secretary shall pay interest to a State on any amount not paid to the State within that time at the rate prescribed under section 1721 (!1) of this title from the date payment was required to be made under this subsection until the date payment is made. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 6, 61 Stat. 915; Pub. L. 97-94, Sec. 1, Dec. 17, 1981, 95 Stat. 1205; Pub. L. 102-486, title XXV, Sec. 2506(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3106; Pub. L. 103-66, title X, Sec. 10202(a), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 408; Pub. L. 107-76, title VII, Sec. 751(e)(2), Nov. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 739.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Mineral Leasing Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. Section 1721 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was in the original "section 111 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982", which enacted section 1721 of this title and amended section 191 of this title. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 2001 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107-76 inserted after first sentence "The preceding sentence shall also apply to any payment to a State derived from a lease for mineral resources issued by the Secretary of the Interior under section 520 of title 16." 1993 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-66 substituted "Subject to the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), all receipts" for "All receipts" in first sentence. 1992 - Pub. L. 102-486 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b). 1981 - Pub. L. 97-94 inserted provision that all receipts derived from leases on lands acquired for military or naval purposes, except the naval petroleum reserves and national shale oil reserves, be paid into the Treasury of the United States and disposed of in the same manner as provided under section 35 of the Act of February 25, 1920, in the case of receipts from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of the public lands under that Act. EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1981 AMENDMENT Section 2 of Pub. L. 97-94 provided that: "The amendment made by the first section of this Act [amending this section] shall take effect with respect to leases entered into after January 1, 1981." OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; REVENUES FROM LEASES Disposition of revenues from leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see sections 1337(g) and 1338 of Title 43, Public Lands. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 360, 1019 of this title; title 25 section 459d; title 31 section 6903. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 356 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 356. Furnishing description of lands and title documents; recordation of documents; authenticated copies -STATUTE- Upon request by the Secretary, the heads of all executive departments, independent establishments, or instrumentalities having jurisdiction over any of the lands referred to in section 351 of this title shall furnish to the Secretary the legal description of all of such lands, and all pertinent abstracts, title papers, and other documents in the possession of such agencies concerning the status of the title of the United States to the mineral deposits that may be found in such lands. Abstracts, title papers, and other documents furnished to the Secretary under this section shall be recorded promptly in the Bureau of Land Management in such form as the Secretary shall deem adequate for their preservation and use in the administration of this chapter, whereupon the originals shall be returned promptly to the agency from which they were received. Duly authenticated copies of any such abstracts, title papers, or other documents may, however, be furnished to the Secretary, in lieu of the originals, in the discretion of the agency concerned. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 7, 61 Stat. 915.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 357 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 357. State or local government rights; taxation -STATUTE- Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to affect the rights of the State or other local authorities to exercise any right which they may have with respect to properties covered by leases issued under this chapter, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or other rights, property, or assets of any lessee of the United States. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 8, 61 Stat. 915.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 358 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 358. Rights under prior leases; priority of pending applications; exchange of leases -STATUTE- Nothing in this chapter shall affect any rights acquired by any lessee of lands subject to this chapter under the law as it existed prior to August 7, 1947, and such rights shall be governed by the law in effect at the time of their acquisition; but any person qualified to hold a lease who, on August 7, 1947, had pending an application for an oil and gas lease for any lands subject to this chapter which on the date the application was filed was not situated within the known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field, shall have a preference right over others to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding. Any person holding a lease on lands subject hereto, which lease was issued prior to August 7, 1947, shall be entitled to exchange such lease for a new lease issued under the provisions of this chapter, at any time prior to the expiration of such existing lease. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 9, 61 Stat. 915.) -MISC1- OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF; JURISDICTION OF UNITED STATES; VALIDATION OF PRIOR LEASES Jurisdiction of United States over outer Continental Shelf, grant of leases on submerged lands thereof, and validation of prior leases, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 359 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 359. Rules and regulations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter, which rules and regulations shall be the same as those prescribed under the mineral leasing laws to the extent that they are applicable. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 10, 61 Stat. 915.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT For definition of "mineral leasing laws", see section 351 of this title. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 360 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 7 - LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 360. Authority to manage certain mineral leases -STATUTE- Each department, agency and instrumentality of the United States which administers lands acquired by the United States with one or more existing mineral lease shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior the authority to administer such lease and to collect all receipts due and payable to the United States under the lease. In the case of lands acquired on or before October 24, 1992, the authority to administer the leases and collect receipts shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior as expeditiously as practicable after October 24, 1992. In the case of lands acquired after October 24, 1992, such authority shall be vested with the Secretary at the time of acquisition. The provisions of section 355 of this title shall apply to all receipts derived from such leases where such receipts are due and payable to the United States under the lease in the same manner as such provisions apply to receipts derived from leases issued under the authority of this chapter. For purposes of this section, the term "existing mineral lease" means any lease in existence at the time land is acquired by the United States. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the existing surface management authority of any Federal agency. -SOURCE- (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 11, as added Pub. L. 102-486, title XXV, Sec. 2506(b), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3106.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES -HEAD- CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES -MISC1- Sec. 401. Establishment of research laboratory; duties. 402. Acquisition of lands and property; utilization of voluntary services; cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies. 403. Repealed. 404. Establishment of an advisory committee; composition and appointment. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 401 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES -HEAD- Sec. 401. Establishment of research laboratory; duties -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain a research laboratory in the lignite-consuming region of North Dakota to conduct researches and investigations on the mining, preparation, and utilization of lignite coal and to develop new scientific, chemical, and technical uses and new and extended markets and outlets for lignite coal and its products. Such laboratory shall be planned as a center for information and assistance in matters pertaining to conserving lignite coal resources for national defense and security; to the more efficient mining, preparation, and utilization of lignite coal; and pertaining to safety, health, and sanitation in mining operations and other matters relating to problems of the lignite industry. -SOURCE- (Mar. 25, 1948, ch. 146, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 85.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- APPROPRIATIONS Section 5 of act Mar. 25, 1948, provided that: "In order to carry out the purposes of this Act [enacting this chapter] there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of (a) $750,000 for the erection and equipment of a building or buildings, including plumbing, lighting, heating, general service, and experimental equipment and apparatus, the necessary roads, walks, and ground improvement, and land for the site of the building if no land is donated; and (b) $250,000 annually for the maintenance and operation of the experimental station, including personal services, supplies, equipment, and expenses of travel and subsistence." -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 402 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES -HEAD- Sec. 402. Acquisition of lands and property; utilization of voluntary services; cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies -STATUTE- For the purpose of this chapter the Secretary, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized to acquire land and interests therein, and to accept in the name of the United States donations of any property, real or personal, and to utilize voluntary or uncompensated services at such laboratory. The Secretary is authorized and directed to cooperate with other departments or agencies of the Federal Government, States, and State agencies and institutions, counties, municipalities, business or other organizations, corporations, associations, universities, scientific societies, and individuals, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. -SOURCE- (Mar. 25, 1948, ch. 146, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 85.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 403 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES -HEAD- Sec. 403. Repealed. Pub. L. 93-608, Sec. 1(12), Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1969 -MISC1- Section, act Mar. 25, 1948, ch. 146, Sec. 3, 62 Stat. 85, required Secretary of the Interior, acting through Bureau of Mines, to report to Congress on activities, expenditures, etc., of laboratory. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 404 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 8 - DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES -HEAD- Sec. 404. Establishment of an advisory committee; composition and appointment -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, may, in his discretion, create and establish an advisory committee composed of not more than six members to exercise consultative functions, when required by the Secretary, in connection with the administration of this chapter. The said committee shall be composed of representatives of lignite coal-mine owners, of representatives of lignite coal-mine workers and the public in equal number. The members of said committee shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior without regard to the civil-service laws. -SOURCE- (Mar. 25, 1948, ch. 146, Sec. 4, 62 Stat. 85.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The civil-service laws, referred to in text, are set out in Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- TERMINATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 9 - RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 9 - RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION -HEAD- CHAPTER 9 - RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION -MISC1- Sec. 411. Establishment and operation of experimental plant. 412. Acquisition of lands and interests; acceptance of money and property; disposition and use of money. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 411 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 9 - RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION -HEAD- Sec. 411. Establishment and operation of experimental plant -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized and directed to establish, equip, and maintain a research laboratory at Reno, Nevada, for research, investigation, and as a center for information and assistance in matters pertaining to the mining, preparation, metallurgy, use, and conservation of the rare and precious metals of the Sierra Nevada mining region, and pertaining to other problems affecting the mining industry of that region. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1950, ch. 338, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 248; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -MISC1- APPROPRIATIONS Section 3 of act June 21, 1950, provided that: "In order to carry out the purposes of this Act [enacting this chapter] there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of (a) $750,000 for the erection and equipment of a building or buildings, including plumbing, lighting, heating, ventilation, general service, experimental equipment and apparatus, the necessary roads, walks, and ground improvements; and (b) $250,000 annually for the maintenance and operation of the experiment station, including personal services, supplies, equipment, and expenses of travel and subsistence." -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 412 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 9 - RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION -HEAD- Sec. 412. Acquisition of lands and interests; acceptance of money and property; disposition and use of money -STATUTE- For the purposes of this chapter the Secretary, acting through the United States Bureau of Mines, is authorized to acquire land and interests therein; to receive and accept money and property, real or personal, or interests therein, and services as a gift, bequest, or contribution; and may conduct activities or projects in cooperation with any person, firm, agency, or organization, Federal, State, or private. Money so received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in a special fund or funds for disbursement by the United States Bureau of Mines and shall remain available for the purposes for which received and accepted until expended. -SOURCE- (June 21, 1950, ch. 338, Sec. 2, 64 Stat. 248; Pub. L. 102-285, Sec. 10(b), May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.) -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "United States Bureau of Mines" substituted in text for "Bureau of Mines" pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102-285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 10 - COAL MINE SAFETY 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 10 - COAL MINE SAFETY -HEAD- CHAPTER 10 - COAL MINE SAFETY -STATAMEND- REPEAL OF CHAPTER Chapter repealed by Pub. L. 91-173, title V, Sec. 509, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 803, on the operative date of sections 811 to 821 and 861 to 878 of this title, which became operative ninety days after the enactment of Pub. L. 91-173, approved Dec. 30, 1969, except that this chapter would continue to apply to any order, notice, decision, finding or any proceedings related to such order, notice, decision, or finding issued prior to the operative date of sections 811 to 812 and 861 to 878 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 451 to 460, 471 to 483 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 10 - COAL MINE SAFETY -HEAD- Secs. 451 to 460, 471 to 483. Repealed. Pub. L. 91-173, title V, Sec. 509, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 803 -MISC1- Section 451, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title 1, Sec. 101, formerly Sec. 1, 55 Stat. 177; renumbered title I, Sec. 101, July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(4), 66 Stat. 710, authorized Secretary of the Interior to make annual investigations of coal mines to obtain information relating to health and safety conditions. Section 452, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 102, formerly Sec. 2, 55 Stat. 178; renumbered title I, Sec. 102, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(3), (5), (6), 66 Stat. 710, empowered Secretary of the Interior to make inspections at any time. Section 453, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 103, formerly Sec. 3, 55 Stat. 178; renumbered title I, Sec. 103, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(5), (7), 66 Stat. 710, authorized investigators to enter any mine affecting interstate commerce. Section 454, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 104, formerly Sec. 4, 55 Stat. 178; renumbered title I, Sec. 104, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(5), (7), (8), 66 Stat. 709, provided for penalty for refusal to admit investigator. Section 455, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 105, formerly Sec. 5, 55 Stat. 178; renumbered title I, Sec. 105, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Secs. 3, 4(5), 66 Stat. 709, 710, provided for filing of accident information. Section 456, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 106, formerly Sec. 6, 55 Stat. 178; renumbered title I, Sec. 106, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(3), (5), 66 Stat. 710, directed Secretary of the Interior to compile and publish reports and to expend funds for advancement of health and safety in mines. Section 457, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 107, formerly Sec. 7, 55 Stat. 179; renumbered title I, Sec. 107, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(3), (5), (9), 66 Stat. 710, provided for administration of provisions of sections 451 to 460 of this title by Bureau of Mines and directed Federal agencies to cooperate with State mine safety agencies. Section 458, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 108, formerly Sec. 8, 55 Stat. 179; renumbered title I, Sec. 108, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(3), (5), 66 Stat. 710, authorized creation of an advisory committee and provided for its functions and composition. Section 459, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 109, formerly Sec. 9, 55 Stat. 179; renumbered title I, Sec. 109, and amended Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, Sec. 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972; July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(3), (5), 66 Stat. 710, authorized employment of personnel for administration of sections 451 to 460 of this title and set out qualification conditions. Section 460, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title I, Sec. 111, formerly 11, 55 Stat. 179; renumbered title I, Sec. 110, and amended July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 4(3), (5), 66 Stat. 710, defined "Commerce" as used in sections 451 to 460 of this title. Section 471, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 201, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 692; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 2(a), 80 Stat. 84, defined terms as used in sections 471 to 483 of this title. Section 472, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 202, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 693; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 3(b), 80 Stat. 87, set out provisions for annual and special instructions, directed Federal agencies to coordinate operations with State mine safety agencies created pursuant to enumerated conditions and authorized any such State inspector to enter any mine affecting commerce. Section 473, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 203, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 694; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 3(a), 80 Stat. 85, set out procedures for withdrawal when immediate or nonimmediate dangers were found to exist in mines. Section 474, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 204, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 696, set out procedures for giving notice of findings and orders. Section 475, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 205, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 697; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 3(c), (d), 80 Stat. 87, authorized continuation of Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review and provided for its composition, powers, and procedures. Section 476, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 206, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 699; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 3(e), 80 Stat. 88, set out procedures for Director of Bureau of Mines to review applications for annulment or revision of orders closing mines because of immediate and nonimmediate dangers. Section 477, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 207, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 700; amended June 11, 1960, Pub. L. 86-507, Sec. 1(22), (23), 74 Stat. 201; Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 3(f), 80 Stat. 90, set out procedures for review by Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review of applications for annulment or revision of orders closing mines because of immediate or nonimmediate dangers. Section 478, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 208, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 702; amended June 11, 1960, Pub. L. 86-507, Sec. 1(24), 74 Stat. 201, set out procedures for judicial review of orders by Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. Section 479, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 209, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 703, set out mandatory mine safety provisions respecting roof support, ventilation, coal dust and rock dust, electrical equipment, fire protection, and other miscellaneous matters. Section 480, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 210, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 708; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 4, 80 Stat. 91, set out penalties for violations of provisions of sections 473 or 476 of this title. Section 481, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 211, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 708, provided for effect on State laws of provisions of sections 471 to 483 of this title. Section 482, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 212, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 709; amended Mar. 26, 1966, Pub. L. 89-376, Sec. 5, 80 Stat. 91, set out procedures for issuance of certificates of equipment conformity, expanded educational programs, directed Federal agencies to coordinate their activities with State agencies to eliminate duplication of efforts, expenses and enforcement requirements, and provided that Director annually report on administration of his functions. Section 483, act May 7, 1941, ch. 87, title II, Sec. 213, as added July 16, 1952, ch. 877, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 709, provided that Administrative Procedure Act was not to be applicable to provisions of sections 471 to 483 of this title. For subject matter formerly contained in this chapter, see section 801 et seq. of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -HEAD- CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -MISC1- Sec. 501. Mining claims located between July 31, 1939, and January 1, 1953. (a) Force and effect. (b) Labor and improvement. (c) Withdrawal or reservation. 502. Reservation of minerals to the United States; rights of entry, disposition and removal. 503. Reservations required by law; atomic energy materials. 504. Power to make arrangements respecting atomic energy materials as unaffected. 505. "Mineral leasing laws" defined. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in section 521 of this title; title 42 section 2098. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 501 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 501. Mining claims located between July 31, 1939, and January 1, 1953 -STATUTE- (a) Force and effect Subject to the provisions of this chapter and to any valid intervening rights acquired under laws of the United States, any mining claim located under the mining laws of the United States subsequent to July 31, 1939, and prior to January 1, 1953, on lands of the United States which were, at the time of such location - (1) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral leasing laws; or (2) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease which had been filed under the mineral leasing laws; or (3) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws; shall be effective to the same extent as if such mining claim had been located on lands which were at the time of such location subject to location under the mining laws of the United States: Provided, however, That in order to obtain the benefits of this chapter, the owner of any such mining claim shall, not later than one hundred and twenty days after August 12, 1953, post on such claim in the manner required for posting notice of location of mining claims and file for record in the office where the notice or certificate of location of such claim is of record an amended notice of location of such claim, stating that such notice is filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof. (b) Labor and improvement Labor performed or improvements made upon or for the benefit of such mining claims after the original location thereof shall be recognized as applicable thereto for all purposes to the same extent as labor performed and improvements made upon or for the benefit of mining claims which are not affected by this chapter. (c) Withdrawal or reservation Any withdrawal or reservation made after the original location of such mining claim affecting land covered by such mining claim is modified and amended so that the effect thereof upon such mining claim shall be the same as if such mining claim had been located upon lands of the United States, which, subsequent to July 31, 1939, and prior to the date of such withdrawal, were subject to location under the mining laws of the United States. -SOURCE- (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, Sec. 1, 67 Stat. 539.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), are classified generally to this title. For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in subsec. (a)(1) to (3), see section 505 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 502, 504 of this title; title 42 section 2098. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 502 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 502. Reservation of minerals to the United States; rights of entry, disposition and removal -STATUTE- Any mining claim given force and effect as provided in section 501 of this title shall be subject to the reservation to the United States of all minerals which, upon August 12, 1953, are provided in the mineral leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder, and the right of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees, to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim to prospect for, mine, treat, store, and remove such minerals, and to use so much of the surface and subsurface of such mining claim as may be necessary for such purposes, and to enter upon such land whenever reasonably necessary for the purpose of prospecting for, mining, treating, storing, and removing such minerals on and from other lands of the United States; and any patent issued for any such mining claim shall contain such reservation. -SOURCE- (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, Sec. 2, 67 Stat. 539.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT For definition of "mineral leasing laws", see section 505 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 42 section 2098. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 503 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 503. Reservations required by law; atomic energy materials -STATUTE- The rights under any mining claim given force and effect by this chapter shall also be subject to the reservation to the United States specified in section 5(b)(7) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, and, in addition, any reservation or reservations required by any other provision or provisions of law; and any patent issued for such mining claim shall contain such reservations. -SOURCE- (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, Sec. 3, 67 Stat. 540.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 5(b)(7) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, referred to in text, was formerly classified to section 1805(b)(7) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and prohibited any benefit to a person from confidential information acquired from participation in development of atomic energy program respecting deposits of fissionable source materials on public lands. Such provisions are covered in section 68(a), (b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified to section 2098(a), (b) of Title 42. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 42 section 2098. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 504 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 504. Power to make arrangements respecting atomic energy materials as unaffected -STATUTE- Except as this chapter provides for (a) validation of certain mining claims located on lands described in section 501 of this title, and (b) the modification and amendment of certain withdrawals or reservations of land, nothing in this chapter shall affect any power or authority duly vested in the Atomic Energy Commission or any other agency, department or officer of the United States to make leases, withdrawals, reservations or other arrangements with respect to source materials as defined in section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended. -SOURCE- (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, Sec. 4, 67 Stat. 540.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, referred to in text, was formerly classified to section 1805(b)(1) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and defined "source material". Such term is defined in section 11(z) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified to section 2014(z) of Title 42. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See, also, Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 42 section 2098. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 505 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 11 - MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS -HEAD- Sec. 505. "Mineral leasing laws" defined -STATUTE- As used in this chapter "mineral leasing laws" shall mean the Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741); the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437) [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.]; the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301) [30 U.S.C. 271 et seq.]; the Act of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) [30 U.S.C. 281 et seq.] and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts. -SOURCE- (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, Sec. 5, 67 Stat. 540.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of October 20, 1914, referred to in text, is act Oct. 20, 1914, ch. 330, 38 Stat. 741, known as the Alaska Coal Lands Act, which was repealed by Pub. L. 86-252, Sec. 1, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 490. The subject matter of this Act is generally covered by subchapters I to VII (Sec. 181 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code prior to repeal, see Tables. Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. Act of April 17, 1926, referred to in text, is act Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, 44 Stat. 301, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter VIII (Sec. 271 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Act of February 7, 1927, referred to in text, is act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted subchapter IX (Sec. 281 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title, amended sections 181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 42 section 2098. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -MISC1- Sec. 521. Mineral leasing claims. (a) Preference categories. (b) Labor and improvements. (c) Withdrawal or reservation of lands. 522. Conflicting periods of location of claims. 523. Uranium leases. (a) Right to locate mining claims. (b) Priorities and conflicting rights; termination of rights. (c) Future claims on lands covered by application or lease. 524. Reservation of minerals to United States. 525. Future location of claims on mineral lands. 526. Mining and Leasing Act operations. (a) Multiple use. (b) Mining operations to avoid damage to mineral deposits and interference with mineral operations. (c) Leasing Act operations to avoid damage to mineral deposits and interference with mining operations. (d) Damage or interference permitted by court. (e) Information regarding operations to be furnished on request. 527. Determination of unpatented mining claims. (a) Filing of notice. (b) Failure to file verified statement. (c) Hearings. (d) Request for copy of notice. (e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice. 528. Waiver and relinquishment of mineral rights. 529. Helium lands subject to entry. 530. Definitions. 531. Approval of United States officials. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in sections 541, 541b, 541h, 1005 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 521 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 521. Mineral leasing claims -STATUTE- (a) Preference categories Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to any valid intervening rights acquired under the laws of the United States, any mining claim located under the mining laws of the United States subsequent to July 31, 1939, and prior to February 10, 1954, on lands of the United States, which at the time of location were - (1) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral leasing laws; or (2) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease which had been filed under the mineral leasing laws; or (3) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws, shall be effective to the same extent in all respects as if such lands at the time of location, and at all times thereafter, had not been so included or covered or known: Provided, however, That, in order to be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, the owner of any such mining claim located prior to January 1, 1953, must have posted and filed for record, within the time allowed by the provisions of chapter 11 of this title, an amended notice of location as to such mining claim, stating that such notice was filed pursuant to the provisions of said chapter 11 and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof: And provided further, That in order to obtain the benefits of this chapter, the owner of any such mining claim located subsequent to December 31, 1952, and prior to February 10, 1954, not later than one hundred and twenty days after August 13, 1954, must post on such claim in the manner required for posting notice of location of mining claims and file for record in the office where the notice or certificate of location of such claim is of record an amended notice of location for such claim, stating that such notice is filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof and, within said one hundred and twenty day period, if such owner shall have filed a uranium lease application as to the tract covered by such mining claim, must file with the Atomic Energy Commission a withdrawal of such uranium lease application or, if a uranium lease shall have issued pursuant thereto, a release of such lease, and must record a notice of the filing of such withdrawal or release in the county office wherein such notice or certificate of location shall have been filed for record. (b) Labor and improvements Labor performed or improvements made after the original location of and upon or for the benefit of any mining claim which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, shall be recognized as applicable to such mining claim for all purposes to the same extent as if the validity of such mining claim were in no respect dependent upon the provisions of this chapter. (c) Withdrawal or reservation of lands As to any land covered by any mining claim which is entitled to the benefits of this chapter under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any withdrawal or reservation of lands made after the original location of such mining claim is hereby modified and amended so that the effect thereof upon such mining claim shall be the same as if such mining claim had been located upon lands of the United States which, subsequent to July 31, 1939, and prior to the date of such withdrawal or reservation, were subject to location under the mining laws of the United States. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 708.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), are classified generally to this title. For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in subsec. (a)(1) to (3), see section 530 of this title. -MISC1- SHORT TITLE Act Aug. 13, 1954, which enacted this chapter, amended section 1805 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and enacted provisions formerly set out as a note under section 1805 of Title 42, is popularly known as the Multiple Mineral Development Act. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See, also, Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections. -MISC2- SEPARABILITY Section 13 of act Aug. 13, 1954, provided that: "If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter], or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional, invalid, or unenforcible [sic], the remainder of this Act or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held unconstitutional, invalid, or unenforcible [sic], shall not be affected thereby." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 524 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 522 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 522. Conflicting periods of location of claims -STATUTE- (a) If any mining claim which shall have been located subsequent to December 31, 1952, and prior to December 11, 1953, and which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, shall cover any lands embraced within any mining claim which shall have been located prior to January 1, 1953, and which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, then as to such area of conflict said mining claim so located subsequent to December 31, 1952, shall be deemed to have been located December 11, 1953. (b) If any mining claim hereafter located shall cover any lands embraced within any mining claim which shall have been located prior to February 10, 1954, and which shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, then as to such area of conflict said mining claim hereafter located shall be deemed to have been located one hundred and twenty-one days after August 13, 1954. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 2, 68 Stat. 709.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 524 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 523 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 523. Uranium leases -STATUTE- (a) Right to locate mining claims Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to any valid prior rights acquired under the laws of the United States, the owner of any pending uranium lease application or of any uranium lease shall have, for a period of one hundred and twenty days after August 13, 1954, as limited in subsection (b) of this section, the right to locate mining claims upon the lands covered by said application or lease. (b) Priorities and conflicting rights; termination of rights Any rights under any such mining claim so hereafter located pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to any rights of the owner of any mining claim which was located prior to February 10, 1954, and which was valid on August 13, 1954 or which may acquire validity under the provisions of this chapter. As to any lands covered by a uranium lease and also by a pending uranium lease application, the right of mining location under this section, as between the owner of said lease and the owner of said application, shall be deemed as to such conflict area to be vested in the owner of said lease. As to any lands embraced in more than one such pending uranium lease application, such right of mining location, as between the owners of such conflicting applications, shall be deemed to be vested in the owner of the prior application. Priority of such an application shall be determined by the time of posting on a tract then available for such leasing of a notice of lease application in accordance with paragraph (c) of the Atomic Energy Commission's Domestic Uranium Program Circular 7 (10 C.F.R. 60.7 (c)) provided there shall have been timely compliance with the other provisions of said paragraph (c) or, if there shall not have been such timely compliance, then by the time of the filing of the uranium lease application with the Atomic Energy Commission. Any rights under any mining claim located under the provisions of this section shall terminate at the expiration of thirty days after the filing for record of the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim unless, within said thirty-day period, the owner of the uranium lease application or uranium lease upon which the location of such mining claim was predicated shall have filed with the Atomic Energy Commission a withdrawal of said application or a release of said lease and shall have recorded a notice of the filing of such withdrawal or release in the county office wherein such notice or certificate of location shall be of record. (c) Future claims on lands covered by application or lease Except as otherwise provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, no mining claim hereafter located shall be valid as to any lands which at the time of such location were covered by a uranium lease application or a uranium lease. Any tract upon which a notice of lease application has been posted in accordance with said paragraph (c) of said Circular 7 shall be deemed to have been included in a uranium lease application from and after the time of the posting of such notice of lease application: Provided, That there shall have been timely compliance with the other provisions of said paragraph (c) or, if there shall not have been such timely compliance, then from and after the time of the filing of a uranium lease application with the Atomic Energy Commission. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 3, 68 Stat. 709.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See, also, Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 524 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 524 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 524. Reservation of minerals to United States -STATUTE- Every mining claim or millsite - (1) heretofore located under the mining laws of the United States which shall be entitled to benefits under sections 521 to 523 of this title; or (2) located under the mining laws of the United States after August 13, 1954 shall be subject, prior to issuance of a patent therefor, to a reservation to the United States of all Leasing Act minerals and of the right (as limited in section 526 of this title) of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim or millsite and to prospect for, drill for, mine, treat, store, transport, and remove Leasing Act minerals and to use so much of the surface and subsurface of such mining claim or millsite as may be necessary for such purposes, and whenever reasonably necessary, for the purpose of prospecting for, drilling for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, and removing Leasing Act minerals on and from other lands; and any patent issued for any such mining claim or millsite shall contain such reservation as to, but only as to, such lands covered thereby which at the time of the issuance of such patent were - (a) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral leasing laws; or (b) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease filed under the mineral leasing laws; or (c) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 4, 68 Stat. 710.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. For definitions of "Leasing Act minerals" and "mineral leasing laws", referred to in par. (2), see section 530 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 527, 528 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 525 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 525. Future location of claims on mineral lands -STATUTE- Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter, mining claims and millsites may hereafter be located under the mining laws of the United States on lands of the United States which at the time of location are - (a) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral leasing laws; or (b) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease filed under the mineral leasing laws; or (c) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws; to the same extent in all respects as if such lands were not so included or covered or known. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 5, 68 Stat. 710.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in cls. (a) to (c), see section 530 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 526 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 526. Mining and Leasing Act operations -STATUTE- (a) Multiple use Where the same lands are being utilized for mining operations and Leasing Act operations, each of such operations shall be conducted, so far as reasonably practicable, in a manner compatible with such multiple use. (b) Mining operations to avoid damage to mineral deposits and interference with mineral operations Any mining operations pursuant to rights under any unpatented or patented mining claim or millsite which shall be subject to a reservation to the United States of Leasing Act minerals as provided in this chapter, shall be conducted, so far as reasonably practicable, in a manner which will avoid damage to any known deposit of any Leasing Act mineral. Subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, mining operations shall be so conducted as not to endanger or materially interfere with any existing surface or underground improvements, workings, or facilities which may have been made for the purpose of Leasing Act operations, or with the utilization of such improvements, workings, or facilities. (c) Leasing Act operations to avoid damage to mineral deposits and interference with mining operations Any Leasing Act operations on lands covered by an unpatented or patented mining claim or millsite which shall be subject to a reservation to the United States of Leasing Act minerals as provided in this chapter shall be conducted, so far as reasonably practicable, in a manner which will avoid damage to any known deposit of any mineral not so reserved from such mining claim or millsite. Subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section, Leasing Act operations shall be so conducted as not to endanger or materially interfere with any existing surface or underground improvements, workings, or facilities which may have been made for the purpose of mining operations, or with the utilization of such improvements, workings, or facilities. (d) Damage or interference permitted by court If, upon petition of either the mining operator or the Leasing Act operator, any court of competent jurisdiction shall find that a particular use in connection with one of such operations cannot be reasonably and properly conducted without endangering or materially interfering with the then existing improvements, workings, or facilities of the other of such operations or with the utilization thereof, and shall find that under the conditions and circumstances, as they then appear, the injury or damage which would result from denial of such particular use would outweigh the injury or damage which would result to such then existing improvements, workings, or facilities or from interference with the utilization thereof if that particular use were allowed, then and in such event such court may permit such use upon payment (or upon furnishing of security determined by the court to be adequate to secure payment) to the party or parties who would be thus injured or damaged, of an amount to be fixed by the court as constituting fair compensation for the then reasonably contemplated injury or damage which would result to such then existing improvements, workings, or facilities or from interference with the utilization thereof by reason of the allowance of such particular use. (e) Information regarding operations to be furnished on request Where the same lands are being utilized for mining operations and Leasing Act operations, then upon request of the party conducting either of said operations, the party conducting the other of said operations shall furnish to and at the expense of such requesting party copies of any information which said other party may have, as to the situs of any improvements, workings, or facilities theretofore made upon such lands, and upon like request, shall permit such requesting party, at the risk of such requesting party, to have access at reasonable times to any such improvements, workings, or facilities for the purpose of surveying and checking or determining the situs thereof. If damage to or material interference with a party's improvements, workings, facilities, or with the utilization thereof shall result from such party's failure, after request, to so furnish to the requesting party such information or from denial of such access, such failure or denial shall relieve the requesting party of any liability for the damage or interference resulting by reason of such failure or denial. Failure of a party to furnish requested information or access shall not impose upon such party any liability to the requesting party other than for such costs of court and attorney's fees as may be allowed to the requesting party in enforcing by court action the obligations of this section as to the furnishing of information and access. The obligation hereunder of any party to furnish requested information shall be limited to map and survey information then available to such party with respect to the situs of improvements, workings, and facilities and the furnishing thereof shall not be deemed to constitute any representation as to the accuracy of such information. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 6, 68 Stat. 710.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT For definitions of "Leasing Act operations", referred to in subsecs. (a) to (c) and (e); "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in subsecs. (b) and (c); and "Leasing Act operator", referred to in subsec. (d), see section 530 of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 524 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 527 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 527. Determination of unpatented mining claims -STATUTE- (a) Filing of notice Any applicant, offeror, permittee, or lessee under the mineral leasing laws may file in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, or in such office as the Secretary may designate, a request for publication of notice of such application, offer, permit, or lease, provided expressly, that not less than ninety days prior to the filing of such request for publication there shall have been filed for record in the county office of record for the county in which the lands covered thereby are situate a notice of the filing of such application or offer or of the issuance of such permit or lease which notice shall set forth the date of such filing or issuance, the name and address of the applicant, offeror, permittee or lessee and the description of the lands covered by such application, offer, permit or lease, showing the section or sections of the public land surveys which embrace the lands covered by such application, offer, permit, or lease, or if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such lands when the public lands surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United States mineral monument. The filing of such request for publication shall be accompanied by a certified copy of such recorded notice and an affidavit or affidavits of a person or persons over twenty-one years of age setting forth that the affiant or affiants have examined the lands involved in a reasonable effort to ascertain whether any person or persons were in actual possession of or engaged in the working of such lands or any part thereof, and, if no person or persons were found to be in actual possession of or engaged in the working of said lands or any part thereof on the date of such examination, setting forth such fact, or, if any person or persons were so found to be in actual possession or engaged in such working on the date of such examination, setting forth the name and address of each such person, unless affiant shall have been unable through reasonable inquiry to obtain information as to the name and address of any such person, in which event the affidavit shall set forth fully the nature and results of such inquiry. The filing of such request for publication shall also be accompanied by the certificate of a title or abstract company, or of a title abstractor, or of an attorney, based upon such company's, abstractor's, or attorney's examination of the instruments affecting the lands involved, of record in the public records of the county in which said lands are situate as shown by the indices of the public records in the county office of record for said county, setting forth the name of any person disclosed by said instruments to have an interest in said lands under any unpatented mining claim heretofore located, together with the address of such person if disclosed by such instruments of record. Thereupon the Secretary of the Interior, or his designated representative, at the expense of the requesting person (who, prior to the commencement of publication, must furnish the agreement of the publisher to hold such requesting person alone responsible for charges of publication), shall cause notice of such application, offer, permit, or lease to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the county in which the lands involved are situate. Such notice shall describe the lands covered by such application, offer, permit, or lease, as provided heretofore in the notice to be filed in the office of record of the county in which the lands covered are situate, and shall notify whomever it may concern that if any person claiming or asserting under, or by virtue of, any unpatented mining claim heretofore located, any right or interest in Leasing Act minerals as to such lands or any part thereof, shall fail to file in the office where such request for publication was filed (which office shall be specified in such notice) and within one hundred fifty days from the date of the first publication of such notice (which date shall be specified in such notice), a verified statement which shall set forth, as to such unpatented mining claim: (1) The date of location; (2) The book and page of recordation of the notice or certificate of location; (3) The section or sections of the public land surveys which embrace such mining claim; or if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such mining claim when the public land surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United States mineral monument; (4) Whether such claimant is a locator or purchaser under such location; and (5) The name and address of such claimant and names and addresses so far as known to the claimant of any other person or persons claiming any interest or interests in or under such unpatented mining claim; such failure shall be conclusively deemed (i) to constitute a waiver and relinquishment by such mining claimant of any and all right, title, and interest under such mining claim as to, but only as to, Leasing Act minerals, and (ii) to constitute a consent by such mining claimant that such mining claim and any patent issued therefor, shall be subject to the reservation specified in section 524 of this title, and (iii) to preclude thereafter any assertion by such mining claimant of any right or title to or interest in any Leasing Act mineral by reason of such mining claim. If such notice is published in a daily paper, it shall be published in the Wednesday issue for nine consecutive weeks, or, if in a weekly paper, in nine consecutive issues, or, if in a semiweekly or triweekly paper, in the issue of the same day of each week for nine consecutive weeks. Within fifteen days after the date of first publication of such notice, the person requesting such publication (1) shall cause a copy of such notice to be personally delivered to or to be mailed by registered mail or by certified mail addressed to each person in possession or engaged in the working of the land whose name and address is shown by an affidavit filed as aforesaid, and to each person who may have filed, as to any lands described in said notice, a request for notices, as provided in subsection (d) of this section, and shall cause a copy of such notice to be mailed by registered mail or by certified mail to each person whose name and address is set forth in the title or abstract company's or title abstractor's or attorney's certificate filed as aforesaid, as having an interest in the lands described in said notice under any unpatented mining claim heretofore located, such notice to be directed to such person's address as set forth in such certificate; and (2) shall file in the office where said request for publication was filed an affidavit showing that copies have been so delivered or mailed. (b) Failure to file verified statement If any claimant under any unpatented mining claim heretofore located which embraces any of the lands described in any notice published in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall fail to file a verified statement, as above provided, within one hundred and fifty days from the date of the first publication of such notice, such failure shall be conclusively deemed, except as otherwise provided in subsection (e) of this section, (i) to constitute a waiver and relinquishment by such mining claimant of any and all right, title, and interest under such mining claim as to, but only as to, Leasing Act minerals, and (ii) to constitute a consent by such mining claimant that such mining claim and any patent issued therefor, shall be subject to the reservation specified in section 524 of this title, and (iii) to preclude thereafter any assertion by such mining claimant of any right or title to or interest in any Leasing Act mineral by reason of such mining claim. (c) Hearings If any verified statement shall be filed by a mining claimant as provided in subsection (a) of this section, then the Secretary of the Interior or his designated representative shall fix a time and place for a hearing to determine the validity and effectiveness of the mining claimant's asserted right or interest in Leasing Act minerals, which place of hearing shall be in the county where the lands in question or parts thereof are located, unless the mining claimant agrees otherwise. The procedures with respect to notice of such a hearing and the conduct thereof, and in respect to appeals shall follow the then established general procedures and rules of practice of the Department of the Interior in respect to contests or protests affecting public lands of the United States. If, pursuant to such a hearing the final decision rendered in the matter shall affirm the validity and effectiveness of any mining claimant's right or interest under the mining claim as to Leasing Act minerals, then no subsequent proceedings under this section shall have any force or effect upon the so-affirmed right or interest of such mining claimant under such mining claim. If at any time prior to a hearing the person requesting publication of notice and any person filing a verified statement pursuant to such notice shall so stipulate, then to the extent so stipulated, but only to such extent, no hearing shall be held with respect to rights asserted under that verified statement, and to the extent defined by the stipulation the rights asserted under that verified statement shall be deemed to be unaffected by that particular published notice. (d) Request for copy of notice Any person claiming any right in Leasing Act minerals under or by virtue of any unpatented mining claim heretofore located and desiring to receive a copy of any notice of any application, offer, permit, or lease which may be published as above provided in subsection (a) of this section, and which may affect lands embraced in such mining claim, may cause to be filed for record in the county office of record where the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim shall have been recorded, a duly acknowledged request for a copy of any such notice. Such request for copies shall set forth the name and address of the person requesting copies and shall also set forth, as to each mining claim under which such person asserts rights in Leasing Act minerals: (1) the date of location; (2) the book and page of the recordation of the notice or certificate of location; and (3) the section or sections of the public land surveys which embrace such mining claim; or if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such mining claim when the public land surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United States mineral monument. Other than in respect to the requirements of subsection (a) of this section as to personal delivery or mailing of copies of notices and in respect to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, no such request for copies of published notices and no statement or allegation in such request and no recordation thereof shall affect title to any mining claim or to any land or be deemed to constitute constructive notice to any person that the person requesting copies has, or claims, any right, title, or interest in or under any mining claim referred to in such request. (e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice If any applicant, offeror, permittee, or lessee shall fail to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section as to the personal delivery or mailing of a copy of notice to any person, the publication of such notice shall be deemed wholly ineffectual as to that person or as to the rights asserted by that person and the failure of that person to file a verified statement, as provided in such notice, shall in no manner affect, diminish, prejudice or bar any rights of that person. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 7, 68 Stat. 711; Pub. L. 86-507, Sec. 1(25), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 201.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT For definitions of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in first undesignated par. of subsec. (a), and "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in fifth undesignated par. of subsec. (a) and subsecs. (b) to (d), see section 530 of this title. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1960 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86-507 inserted "or by certified mail" after "registered mail" in two places in last paragraph. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 226 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 528 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 528. Waiver and relinquishment of mineral rights -STATUTE- The owner or owners of any mining claim heretofore located may, at any time prior to issuance of patent therefor, waive and relinquish all rights thereunder to Leasing Act minerals. The execution and acknowledgment of such a waiver and relinquishment by such owner or owners and the recordation thereof in the office where the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim is of record shall render such mining claim thereafter subject to the reservation referred to in section 524 of this title and any patent issued therefor shall contain such a reservation, but no such waiver or relinquishment shall be deemed in any manner to constitute any concession as to the date of priority of rights under said mining claim or as to the validity thereof. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 8, 68 Stat. 715.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT For definition of "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in text, see section 530 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 529 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 529. Helium lands subject to entry -STATUTE- Lands withdrawn from the public domain which are within (a) Helium Reserve Numbered 1, pursuant to Executive orders of March 21, 1924, and January 28, 1926, and (b) Helium Reserve Numbered 2 pursuant to Executive Order 6184 of June 26, 1933, shall be subject to entry and location under the mining laws of the United States, and to permit and lease under the mineral leasing laws, upon determination by the Secretary of the Interior, based upon available geologic and other information, that there is no reasonable probability that operations pursuant to entry or location of the particular lands under the mining laws, or pursuant to a permit or lease of the particular lands under the Mineral Leasing Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], will result in the extraction or cause loss or waste of the helium-bearing gas in the lands of such reserves: Provided, That the lands shall not become subject to entry, location, permit or lease until such time as the Secretary designates in an order published in the Federal Register: And provided further, That the Secretary may at any time as a condition to continued mineral operations require the entryman, locator, permittee or lessee to take such measures either above or below the surface of the lands as the Secretary deems necessary to prevent loss or waste of the helium-bearing gas. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 9, 68 Stat. 715.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in text, see section 530 of this title. The Mineral Leasing Act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 530 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 530. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in this chapter "mineral leasing laws" shall mean the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437) [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.]; the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301) [30 U.S.C. 271 et seq.]; the Act of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) [30 U.S.C. 281 et seq.]; Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 [30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.]; and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts; "Leasing Act minerals" shall mean all minerals which, upon August 13, 1954, are provided in the mineral leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder and all geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources which, upon the effective date of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, are provided in that Act to be disposed of thereunder; "Leasing Act operations" shall mean operations conducted under a lease, permit, or license issued under the mineral leasing laws in or incidental to prospecting for, drilling for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, or removing Leasing Act minerals; "mining operations" shall mean operations under any unpatented or patented mining claim or millsite in or incidental to prospecting for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, or removing minerals other than Leasing Act minerals and any other use under any claim of right or title based upon such mining claim or millsite; "Leasing Act operator" shall mean any party who shall conduct Leasing Act operations; "mining operator" shall mean any party who shall conduct mining operations; "Atomic Energy Act" shall mean the Act of August 1, 1946 (60 Stat. 755), as amended [42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.]; "Atomic Energy Commission" shall mean the United States Atomic Energy Commission established under the Atomic Energy Act or any amendments thereof; "fissionable source material" shall mean uranium, thorium, and all other materials referred to in section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, as reserved or to be reserved to the United States; "uranium lease application" shall mean an application for a uranium lease filed with said Commission with respect to lands which would be open for entry under the mining laws except for their being lands embraced within an offer, application, permit, or lease under the mineral leasing laws or lands known to be valuable for minerals leasable under those laws; "uranium lease" shall mean a uranium mining lease issued by said Commission with respect to any such lands; and "person" shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 11, 68 Stat. 716; Pub. L. 91-581, Sec. 26, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1573.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. Act of April 17, 1926, referred to in text, is act Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, 44 Stat. 301, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter VIII (Sec. 271 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Act of February 7, 1927, referred to in text, is act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted subchapter IX (Sec. 281 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title, amended sections 181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. The Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 91-581, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1566, which is classified principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables. The effective date of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, referred to in text, probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 91-581, which was approved Dec. 24, 1970. The Atomic Energy Act, referred to in text, is a reference to the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, 60 Stat. 755), prior to its complete amendment and revision by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, 68 Stat. 919, which is classified principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 2011 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For further details, see Codification note set out under sections 1801 to 1819 of Title 42 and Short Title note set out under section 2011 of Title 42. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, referred to in text, was formerly classified to section 1805(b)(1) of Title 42 and defined "source material". The term is defined in section 11(z) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified to section 2014(z) of Title 42. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1970 - Pub. L. 91-581 redefined "mineral leasing laws" to exclude "the Act of October 20, 1914" and to include "Geothermal Steam Act of 1970" and "Leasing Act minerals" to include "all geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources which, upon the effective date of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, are provided in that Act to be disposed of thereunder". -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See, also, Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 531 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS -HEAD- Sec. 531. Approval of United States officials -STATUTE- Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to waive, amend, or repeal the requirement of any provision of any law for approval of any official of the United States whose approval prior to prospecting, exploring, or mining would be required. -SOURCE- (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 12, 68 Stat. 717.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -MISC1- Sec. 541. Entry and location; filing of copy of notice of mining location; report and payment for lignite mined; mineral patents; reservation of minerals to United States. 541a. Claims located prior to May 25, 1955; extralateral rights; amended notice of mining location. 541b. Mining, removal, and disposal of lignite. 541c. Lands where coal deposits have been reserved to the United States. 541d. Location of source materials by holders of coal leases. 541e. Definitions. 541f. Disbursement of moneys. 541g. Rules and regulations. 541h. Savings provisions. 541i. Withdrawal of lands from entry; expiration of claims. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in title 16 section 1907; title 43 section 299. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541. Entry and location; filing of copy of notice of mining location; report and payment for lignite mined; mineral patents; reservation of minerals to United States -STATUTE- Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to any valid intervening rights acquired under the laws of the United States, public lands of the United States classified as or known to be valuable for coal subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws and which are open to location and entry subject to the conditions and provisions of chapter 12 of this title, unless embraced within a coal prospecting permit or lease, shall also be open to location and entry under the mining laws of the United States upon the discovery of a valuable source material occurring within any seam, bed, or deposit of lignite in such lands: Provided, That a copy of the notice of any mining location made for source material occurring in any such bed, seam, or deposit, shall be filed for record in the land office of the Bureau of Land Management for the State in which the claim is situated within ninety days after the date of its location: Provided further, That the claimant to any such mining location shall report annually to the Mining Supervisor of the Geological Survey the amount of lignite mined or stripped in the recovery of such valuable source material during each calendar year and tender payment to him of 10 cents per ton thereon. Any mineral patents issued hereunder shall be made subject to the recording and payment requirements of this section and shall contain a reservation to the United States of all Leasing Act minerals owned by the United States other than lignite containing valuable source material and lignite necessary to be stripped or mined in the recovery of such material. Mining claims located and mineral patents issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not include rights to lignite not containing valuable source material except to the extent it may be necessary to mine or strip such lignite in order to mine the source material and, with respect to lode claims, shall not include extralateral rights. For all purposes of this chapter "source material" and "lignite" shall have the meanings given in section 541e of this title. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 679.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. For definitions of "mineral leasing laws" and "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in text, see section 541e of this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 541a, 541b, 541c, 541i of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541a 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541a. Claims located prior to May 25, 1955; extralateral rights; amended notice of mining location -STATUTE- Any mining claim located in a manner prescribed by the mining laws of the United States upon lands of the character described in section 541 of this title, prior to May 25, 1955, if based upon a discovery of valuable source material contained in lignite shall be effective to the same extent as if such lands at the time of location, and at all times thereafter, had not been classified as or known to be valuable for coal subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws, subject, however, to the provisions of section 541 of this title: Provided, That no extralateral rights shall attach to any mining location validated under this section: And provided further, That the locator or locators of such a mining claim shall, not later than one hundred and eighty days from and after August 11, 1955, post on the claim and file for record in the office where the notice or certificate of location is of record, an amended notice of the mining location stating that such amended notice is filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof; and that a copy of said amended notice is, within the said one-hundred-and-eighty-day period, filed in the land office of the Bureau of Land Management for the State in which the mining location is situated, and the mining locator thereafter complies with the requirements of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 679.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in text, see section 541e of this title. -MISC1- EXTENSION OF TIME FOR ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WORK Act June 29, 1956, ch. 478, 70 Stat. 438, as amended by Pub. L. 85-68, June 29, 1957, 71 Stat. 226, provided for extension of time for period commencing July 1, 1955, to 12 o'clock noon July 1, 1958, during which labor must be performed, or improvements made pursuant to section 28 of this title, or any unpatented mining claim validated under this section and for extension of time for period commencing July 1, 1956, to 12 o'clock noon July 1, 1958, during which labor must be performed, or improvements made pursuant to section 28 of this title, on any other unpatented mining claim subject to this chapter. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 541b of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541b 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541b. Mining, removal, and disposal of lignite -STATUTE- Subject to the provisos of section 541a of this title, any mining location made under the mining laws of the United States, including chapter 12 of this title, on lands of the character described in section 541 of this title, except locations made for lands within the exterior boundaries of a prior coal prospecting permit or lease, if based upon a discovery of valuable source material in deposits other than deposits of Leasing Act minerals, shall include the right to mine, remove, and dispose of lignite containing valuable source material and lignite necessary to be stripped or mined in the recovery of source material contained in lignite, subject to the reporting and payment requirements of section 541 of this title, and subject to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [42 U.S.C. 2011 et. seq.], and upon filing in the land office designated in section 541 of this title, an adequate description of his claim or claims containing such lignite: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights acquired by virtue of a mining claim heretofore or hereafter located, under the 1872 Mining Act, as amended, or to impose any additional obligation with respect to the mining and removal of source material which does not occur within any seam, bed, or deposit of lignite. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 3, 69 Stat. 680.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. For definition of "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in text, see section 541e of this title. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, referred to in text, is act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 921, and amended, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (Sec. 2011 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of Title 42 and Tables. The 1872 Mining Act, as amended, referred to in text, is act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, 17 Stat. 91, as amended. That act was incorporated into the Revised Statutes as R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344, which are classified to sections 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 35, 37, 39 to 42, and 47 of this title. For complete classification of R.S. Secs. 2319 to 2328, 2331, 2333 to 2337, and 2344 to the Code, see Tables. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541c 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541c. Lands where coal deposits have been reserved to the United States -STATUTE- The entryman or owner of any land or the assignee of rights therein, including lands granted to States, with respect to which the coal deposits have been reserved to the United States pursuant to the provisions of section 81 of this title or sections 83 to 85 of this title, excepting lands embraced within a coal prospecting permit or lease, upon the discovery of valuable source material in lignite situated within such entered, granted, or patented lands, who, except for the reservation of coal to the United States would have the right to mine and remove such source material, shall have the exclusive right to mine, remove, and dispose of lignite containing such source material and lignite necessary to be stripped or mined in the recovery of such material, subject to the reporting and payment requirements of section 541 of this title, and subject to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.], upon filing in the land office designated in section 541 of this title, an adequate description sufficient to identify the land containing such lignite. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 4, 69 Stat. 680.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, referred to in text, is act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 921, and amended, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (Sec. 2011 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of Title 42 and Tables. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 541d of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541d 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541d. Location of source materials by holders of coal leases -STATUTE- The holders of coal leases issued under the provision of the mineral leasing laws, including chapter 7 of this title, prior to August 11, 1955, or thereafter if based upon a prospecting permit issued prior to that date, upon the discovery during the term of such lease of valuable source material in any bed or deposit of lignite situated within the leased lands, shall have the exclusive right to locate such source material under the provisions of this chapter but the mining and disposal of such source material shall be subject to the operating provisions of the lease and to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.]: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to coal prospecting, permits or leases on lands embraced within entered, granted or patented lands described in section 541c of this title. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 5, 69 Stat. 680.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in text, see section 541e of this title. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, referred to in text, is act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 921, and amended, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (Sec. 2011 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of Title 42 and Tables. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541e 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541e. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in this chapter "mineral leasing laws" shall mean the Act of October 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741); the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437) [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.]; the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301) [30 U.S.C. 271 et seq.]; the Act of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) [30 U.S.C. 281 et seq.]; and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts; "Leasing Act minerals" shall mean all minerals which, upon August 11, 1955, are provided in the mineral leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder; "lignite" shall mean coal classified as ASTM designation: D 388-38, according to the standards established in the American Society for Testing Materials on Coal and Coke under standard specifications for Classification of Coals by Rank, contained in public-land deposits considered as valuable under the coal-land classification standards established by the Secretary of the Interior and prescribed in section 30, Code of Federal Regulations, part 201; and "source material" shall mean uranium, thorium, or any other material which is determined by the Atomic Energy Commission pursuant to the provisions of section 2091 of title 42 to be source material. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 6, 69 Stat. 680.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of October 20, 1914, referred to in text, is act Oct. 20, 1914, ch. 330, 38 Stat. 741, known as the Alaska Coal Lands Act, which was repealed by Pub. L. 86-252, Sec. 1, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 490. The subject matter of this Act is generally covered by subchapters I to VII (Sec. 181 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code prior to repeal, see Tables. Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables. Act of April 17, 1926, referred to in text, is act Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, 44 Stat. 301, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter VIII (Sec. 271 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Act of February 7, 1927, referred to in text, is act Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted subchapter IX (Sec. 281 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title, amended sections 181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. See, also, Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 541 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541f 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541f. Disbursement of moneys -STATUTE- All moneys received under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and distributed in the same manner as provided in section 191 of this title and sections 437, 438, and 439 (!1) of title 48. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 7, 69 Stat. 681.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 437, 438, and 439 of title 48, referred to in text, were repealed by Pub. L. 86-252, Sec. 1, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 490. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) See References in Text note below. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541g 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541g. Rules and regulations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 8, 69 Stat. 681.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541h 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541h. Savings provision -STATUTE- Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to amend or repeal any provisions of chapter 12 of this title, or any right granted thereunder. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 9, 69 Stat. 681.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 541i 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 12A - ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL -HEAD- Sec. 541i. Withdrawal of lands from entry; expiration of claims -STATUTE- Twenty years after August 11, 1955, all lands subject to the provisions of section 541 of this title shall be withdrawn from all forms of entry under this chapter. All claims made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall expire at that time, except for (1) claims for which patent has already been issued, and (2) claims on which application for patent has already been made and on which patent is subsequently issued: Provided, That, if the President shall so provide by Executive order, the provisions of this section shall not become effective until thirty years after August 11, 1955. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 10, 69 Stat. 681.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -MISC1- Sec. 551. Declaration of policy. 552. Definitions. 553. Duties of Secretary; surveys, research, etc.; projects. 554. Lands subject to chapter. 555. Conditions precedent for aid to non-Federal lands. (a) Enactment of local laws; agreements. (b) Contributions. 556. Administration. (a) Employment of personnel. (b) Employment of equipment. (c) Contractual authority. (d) Acquisition of lands, etc. (e) Property restoration. (f) Contributions; cooperation with other agencies; disposition of moneys. 557. Rules and regulations. 558. Authorization of appropriations. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 551 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 551. Declaration of policy -STATUTE- It is recognized that outcrop and underground fires in coal formations involve serious wastage of the fuel resources of the Nation, and constitute a menace to the health and safety of the public and to surface property. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the Congress to provide for the control and extinguishment of outcrop and underground coal fires and thereby to prevent injuries and loss of life, protect public health, conserve natural resources, and to preserve public and private surface property. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 1009.) -MISC1- COAL FORMATIONS Pub. L. 102-486, title XXV, Sec. 2504(d)(1), (2), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3105, 3106, provided that: "(1) In furtherance of the purposes of the Act of August 31, 1954 (30 U.S.C. 551-558) the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, shall, upon application by a State, enter into a cooperative agreement with any such State that has an approved abandoned mine reclamation program pursuant to section 405 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 [30 U.S.C. 1235] to undertake the activities referred to in section 3(b) of the Act of August 31, 1954 (30 U.S.C. 553(b)). The Secretary shall immediately enter into such cooperative agreement upon application by a State. Any such cooperative agreement shall not be subject to review or approval by the Appalachian Regional Development Commission. "(2) For the purposes of the cooperative agreements entered into pursuant to paragraph (1), the requirements of section 5 of the Act of August 31, 1954 (30 U.S.C. 555) are hereby waived." -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 553 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 552 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 552. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in this chapter: "Coal" means any of the recognized classifications and ranks of coal, including anthracite, bituminous, semibituminous, subbituminous, and lignite. "Outcrop" means any place where a formation is visible or substantially exposed at the surface. "Formation" means any vein, seam, stratum, bed, or other naturally occurring deposit. "Coal mine" means any underground, surface, or strip mine from which coal is obtained. "State" means any State or Territory of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof. "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of persons. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 2, 68 Stat. 1009.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 553 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 553. Duties of Secretary; surveys, research, etc.; projects -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, in order to effectuate the policy declared in section 551 of this title, is hereby authorized - (a) to conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the causes and extent of outcrop and underground fires in coal formations and the methods for control or extinguishment of such fires; to publish the results of any such surveys, investigations, and researches; and to disseminate information concerning such method; and (b) to plan and execute projects for control or extinguishment of fires in coal formations. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 3, 68 Stat. 1009.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 554, 555, 556 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 554 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 554. Lands subject to chapter -STATUTE- The acts authorized in section 553 of this title may be performed - (a) on lands owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, with the cooperation of the agency having jurisdiction thereof; and (b) on any other lands, upon obtaining proper consent or the necessary rights or interests in such lands: Provided, however, That expenditure of Federal funds for this purpose in any privately owned operating coal mine shall be limited to the acts authorized in section 553(a) of this title. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 4, 68 Stat. 1009.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 555 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 555. Conditions precedent for aid to non-Federal lands -STATUTE- (a) Enactment of local laws; agreements As a condition to the extending of any benefits under section 553(b) of this title to any lands not owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, except where such action is necessary for the protection of lands or other property owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, the Secretary of the Interior may require - (1) the enactment of State or local laws providing for the control and extinguishment of outcrop and underground fires in coal formations on State or privately owned land and the cooperation of State or local authorities in the work; and (2) agreements or covenants as to the performance and maintenance of the work required to control or extinguish such fires. (b) Contributions The Secretary of the Interior shall require in connection with any project for the control or extinguishment of fires in any inactive coal mine on any lands not owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, except where such project is necessary for the protection of lands or other property owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, (1) that the State or person owning or controlling such lands contribute on a matching basis 50 per centum of the cost of planning and executing such project, or (2), if such State or person furnishes evidence satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior of an inability to make the matching contribution herein provided for, that such State or person pay to the Government, within such period of time as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine, an amount equal to 50 per centum of the cost of planning and executing such project. At least 75 per centum of the funds expended in any fiscal year, from any appropriation available to carry out the purposes of this chapter, in connection with projects for the control or extinguishment of fires in inactive coal mines where such action is not necessary for the protection of lands or other property owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, shall be expended in conformity with clause (1) of this subsection. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 5, 68 Stat. 1010.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 556 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 556. Administration -STATUTE- In carrying out the provisions of section 553 of this title the Secretary of the Interior is authorized - (a) Employment of personnel to secure, by contract or otherwise, and without regard to the civil service laws and chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, for work of a temporary, intermittent, or emergency character, such personal services as may be deemed necessary for the efficient and economical performance of the work; (b) Employment of equipment to hire, with or without personal services, work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment, at rates to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and without regard to the provisions of section 5 of title 41; (c) Contractual authority to procure all or any part of the surveys, investigations, and control or extinguishment work by contracts with engineers, contractors, or firms or corporations thereof; (d) Acquisition of lands, etc. to acquire lands or rights and interests therein, including improvements, by purchase, lease, gift, exchange, condemnation, or otherwise, whenever necessary for the purposes of this chapter; (e) Property restoration to repair, restore, or replace private property damaged or destroyed as a result of, or incident to, operations under this chapter; and (f) Contributions; cooperation with other agencies; disposition of moneys to receive and accept money and property, real or personal, or interests therein, as a gift, bequest, or contribution, for use in any of the activities authorized under this chapter; and to conduct any of the activities authorized under this chapter in cooperation with any person or agency, Federal, State, or private. Any money so received shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in an available trust fund to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury upon certification by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the terms of the grant, and shall remain available until expended for the purposes for which received and accepted. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 6, 68 Stat. 1010.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The civil service laws, referred to in subsec. (a), are set forth in Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5. -COD- CODIFICATION In subsec. (a), "chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5" substituted for "the Classification Act of 1949, as amended" on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 557 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 557. Rules and regulations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior may issue rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 7, 68 Stat. 1011.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 558 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 13 - CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES -HEAD- Sec. 558. Authorization of appropriations -STATUTE- There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums,(!1) as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, Sec. 8, 68 Stat. 1011; Pub. L. 102-486, title XXV, Sec. 2504(d)(3), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3106.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1992 - Pub. L. 102-486 struck out "not to exceed $500,000 annually," after "such sums,". -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. The comma probably should not appear. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -MISC1- Sec. 571. Declaration of policy. 572. United States contributions to Pennsylvania: authority, conditions, limitations. (a) Contributions to be matched by Commonwealth. (b) Amount of contributions authorized. (c) Limitation on use of contribution. (d) Commonwealth responsible for installation and operation of projects. (e) Location and operation of projects. (f) Economic justification for abandoned coal mine projects. 573. Statement by Commonwealth for Secretary. 574. Hearings; withholding payments. 575. Repealed. 576. Authorization of appropriations. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 571 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- Sec. 571. Declaration of policy -STATUTE- It is hereby recognized that the presence of large volumes of water in anthracite coal formations involves serious wastage of the fuel resources of the Nation, and constitutes a menace to health and safety and national security. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the Congress to provide for the control and drainage of water in the anthracite coal formations and thereby conserve natural resources, promote national security, prevent injuries and loss of life, and preserve public and private property, and to seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, in those instances where such work is in the interest of the public health or safety. -SOURCE- (July 15, 1955, ch. 369, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 352; Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(1), Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 934.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1962 - Pub. L. 87-818 declared it to be the policy of the Congress "to seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, in those instances where such work is in the interest of the public health or safety". -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 572 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 572 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- Sec. 572. United States contributions to Pennsylvania: authority, conditions, limitations -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in order to carry out the purposes mentioned in section 571 of this title, to make financial contributions on the basis of programs or projects approved by the Secretary to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (hereinafter designated as the "Commonwealth") to seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, in those instances where such work is in the interest of the public health or safety, and for control and drainage of water which, if not so controlled or drained, will cause the flooding of anthracite coal formations, said contributions to be applied to the cost of drainage works, pumping plants, and related facilities but subject, however, to the following conditions and limitations: (a) Contributions to be matched by Commonwealth The amounts authorized to be contributed by the Secretary of the Interior to the Commonwealth shall be equally matched by the Commonwealth; (b) Amount of contributions authorized The total amount of contributions by the Secretary of the Interior under the authority of this chapter shall not exceed $8,500,000, of which $1,500,000 of the unexpended balance remaining as of July 31, 1962, shall be reserved for the control and drainage of water; (c) Limitation on use of contribution The amounts contributed by the Secretary of the Interior under the authority of this chapter and the equally matched amounts contributed by the Commonwealth shall not be used for operating and maintaining projects constructed pursuant to this chapter or for the purchase of culm, rock, or spoil banks; (d) Commonwealth responsible for installation and operation of projects The Commonwealth shall have full responsibility for installing, operating, and maintaining projects constructed pursuant to this chapter, and shall give evidence, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, that it will enforce effective installation, operation, and maintenance safeguards; (e) Location and operation of projects Projects constructed pursuant to this chapter shall be so located, operated, and maintained as to provide the maximum conservation of anthracite coal resources or, in those instances where such work would be in the interest of the public health or safety, to seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, and, where possible, to avoid creating inequities among those mines which may be affected by the waters to be controlled thereby; and (f) Economic justification for abandoned coal mine projects Projects for the sealing of abandoned coal mines or the filling of voids in abandoned coal mines shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior to be economically justified. The Secretary shall not find any project to be economically justified unless the potential benefits are estimated by him to exceed the estimated cost of the project. -SOURCE- (July 15, 1955, ch. 369, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 353; Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(2)-(7), Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 934.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1962 - Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(2), authorized the Secretary of the Interior, in the preamble clause, to seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, in those instances where such work is in the interest of the public health or safety. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(3), reserved $1,500,000 of the unexpended balance remaining as of July 31, 1962, for the control and drainage of water. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(4), prohibited the use of contributions for the purchase of culm, rock, or spoil banks. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(5), struck out "and" after the semicolon. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(6), prescribed that projects be so located, operated, and maintained as to seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines in those instances where such work would be in the interest of the public health or safety. Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(7), added subsec. (f). -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 573 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- Sec. 573. Statement by Commonwealth for Secretary -STATUTE- The Commonwealth shall furnish to the Secretary of the Interior a statement with respect to the project showing work done, the status of the project, expenditures and amounts obligated, at such times and in such detail as the Secretary of the Interior shall require for the purposes of this chapter. -SOURCE- (July 15, 1955, ch. 369, Sec. 3, 69 Stat. 353.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 574 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- Sec. 574. Hearings; withholding payments -STATUTE- Whenever the Secretary of the Interior, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, finds that there is a failure to expend funds in accordance with the terms and conditions governing the Federal contribution for such approved projects, he shall notify the Commonwealth that further payments will not be made to the Commonwealth from appropriations under this chapter until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any such failure. Until he is so satisfied the Secretary of the Interior shall withhold the payment of any financial contributions to the Commonwealth. -SOURCE- (July 15, 1955, ch. 369, Sec. 4, 69 Stat. 353.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 575 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- Sec. 575. Repealed. Pub. L. 105-362, title IX, Sec. 901(i)(1), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3290 -MISC1- Section, acts July 15, 1955, ch. 369, Sec. 5, 69 Stat. 353; Pub. L. 87-818, Sec. 1(8), Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 935, related to annual reports to Congress by Secretary of the Interior on anthracite mine drainage and flood control program. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 576 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 14 - ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL -HEAD- Sec. 576. Authorization of appropriations -STATUTE- There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. -SOURCE- (July 15, 1955, ch. 369, Sec. 5, formerly Sec. 6, 69 Stat. 353; renumbered Sec. 5, Pub. L. 105-362, title IX, Sec. 901(i)(2), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3290.) -MISC1- PRIOR PROVISIONS A prior section 5 of act July 15, 1955, ch. 369, was classified to section 575 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105-362, Sec. 901(i)(1). -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES -HEAD- CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES -MISC1- SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS Sec. 601. Rules and regulations governing disposal of materials; payment; removal without charge; lands excluded. 602. Bidding; advertising and other notice; conditions for negotiation of contract. 603. Disposition of moneys from disposal of materials. 604. Disposal of sand, peat moss, etc., in Alaska; contracts. SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS 611. Common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, or cinders, and petrified wood. 612. Unpatented mining claims. (a) Prospecting, mining or processing operations. (b) Reservations in the United States to use of the surface and surface resources. (c) Severance or removal of timber. 613. Procedure for determining title uncertainties. (a) Notice to mining claimants; request; publication; service. (b) Failure to file verified statement. (c) Hearings. (d) Request for copy of notice. (e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice. 614. Waiver of rights. 615. Limitation of existing rights. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS -SECREF- SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This subchapter is referred to in section 707 of this title; title 16 sections 460mm-1, 460ppp-3; title 42 section 6502; title 43 sections 299, 1783. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 601 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 601. Rules and regulations governing disposal of materials; payment; removal without charge; lands excluded -STATUTE- The Secretary, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may dispose of mineral materials (including but not limited to common varieties of the following: sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, cinders, and clay) and vegetative materials (including but not limited to yucca, manzanita, mesquite, cactus, and timber or other forest products) on public lands of the United States, including, for the purposes of this subchapter, land described in subchapter V of chapter 28 of title 43, if the disposal of such mineral or vegetative materials (1) is not otherwise expressly authorized by law, including, but not limited to, subchapter I of chapter 8A of title 43, and the United States mining laws, and (2) is not expressly prohibited by laws of the United States, and (3) would not be detrimental to the public interest. Such materials may be disposed of only in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter and upon the payment of adequate compensation therefor, to be determined by the Secretary: Provided, however, That, to the extent not otherwise authorized by law, the Secretary is authorized in his discretion to permit any Federal, State, or Territorial agency, unit or subdivision, including municipalities, or any association or corporation not organized for profit, to take and remove, without charge, materials and resources subject to this subchapter, for use other than for commercial or industrial purposes or resale. Where the lands have been withdrawn in aid of a function of a Federal department or agency other than the department headed by the Secretary or of a State, Territory, county, municipality, water district or other local governmental subdivision or agency, the Secretary may make disposals under this subchapter only with the consent of such other Federal department or agency or of such State, Territory, or local governmental unit. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to apply to lands in any national park, or national monument or to any Indian lands, or lands set aside or held for the use or benefit of Indians, including lands over which jurisdiction has been transferred to the Department of the Interior by Executive order for the use of Indians. As used in this subchapter, the word "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior except that it means the Secretary of Agriculture where the lands involved are administered by him for national forest purposes or for the purposes of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act [7 U.S.C. 1010 et seq.] or where withdrawn for the purpose of any other function of the Department of Agriculture. -SOURCE- (July 31, 1947, ch. 406, Sec. 1, 61 Stat. 681; July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 367.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Subchapter V (Sec. 1181a et seq.) of chapter 28 of title 43, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to the Acts of Aug. 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), and June 24, 1954 (68 Stat. 270), as amended. For complete classification of these Acts to the Code, see Tables. Subchapter I (Sec. 315 et seq.) of chapter 8A of title 43, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended, known as the Taylor Grazing Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 315 of Title 43 and Tables. The United States mining laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, referred to in text, is act July 22, 1937, ch. 517, 50 Stat. 522, as amended. Title III of such Act is classified generally to subchapter III (Sec. 1010 et seq.) of chapter 33 of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1000 of Title 7 and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1955 - Act July 23, 1955, required disposal under this subchapter of common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, and cinders, and gave the Secretary of Agriculture the same authority as to lands under his jurisdiction as the Secretary of Interior possesses as to lands under his jurisdiction in the disposal of mining and vegetative materials. SHORT TITLE Act July 31, 1947, ch. 406, 61 Stat. 681, as amended, which is classified to this subchapter, is popularly known as the "Materials Act of 1947". -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department of the Interior related to compliance with materials sales contracts under this subchapter and removal permits issued under this subchapter and enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department of Agriculture insofar as they involve lands and programs under jurisdiction of that Department related to compliance with removal of materials under this subchapter with respect to pre-construction, construction, and initial operation of transportation system for Canadian and Alaskan natural gas transferred to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, until first anniversary of date of initial operation of Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, see Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1979, Secs. 102(e), (f), 203(a), eff. July 1, 1979, 44 F.R. 33663, 33666, 93 Stat. 1373, 1376, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System abolished and functions and authority vested in Inspector transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 3012(b) of Pub. L. 102-486, set out as an Abolition of Office of Federal Inspector note under section 719e of Title 15, Commerce and Trade. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 611, 612, 615 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 602 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 602. Bidding; advertising and other notice; conditions for negotiation of contract -STATUTE- (a) The Secretary shall dispose of materials under this subchapter to the highest responsible qualified bidder after formal advertising and such other public notice as he deems appropriate: Provided, however, That the Secretary may authorize negotiation of a contract for the disposal of materials if - (1) the contract is for the sale of less than two hundred fifty thousand board-feet of timber; or, if (2) the contract is for the disposal of materials to be used in connection with a public works improvement program on behalf of a Federal, State or local governmental agency and the public exigency will not permit the delay incident to advertising; or, if (3) the contract is for the disposal of property for which it is impracticable to obtain competition. (b) Repealed. Pub. L. 96-470, title I, Sec. 102(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2237. -SOURCE- (July 31, 1947, ch. 406, Sec. 2, 61 Stat. 681; Pub. L. 87-689, Sec. 1, Sept. 25, 1962, 76 Stat. 587; Pub. L. 94-273, Sec. 20, Apr. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 379; Pub. L. 96-470, title I, Sec. 102(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2237.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1980 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-470 struck out subsec. (b) which required a report to be made to Congress on Apr. 1 and Oct. 1 of each year of the contracts made under subsec. (a)(2) and (3) during the period since the date of the last report, which report was to name each purchaser, furnish the appraised value of the material involved, state the amount of each contract, and describe the circumstances leading to the determination that the contract should be entered into by negotiation instead of competitive bidding after formal advertising. 1976 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-273 substituted "April" for "January" and "October" for "July". 1962 - Pub. L. 87-689 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), substituted therein provisions requiring the Secretary to dispose of materials after formal advertising and such other public notice as he deems appropriate, and authorizing negotiation of a contract for the sale of less than 250,000 board-feet of timber, or for materials to be used in connection with public works improvement program for a Federal, State, or local governmental agency where the public exigency will not permit the delay of advertising, or for property for which it is impracticable to obtain competition, for provisions requiring publication of notice once a week for 4 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation, and competitive bidding, in cases where the value was in excess of $1,000, and permitting disposal upon such notice and in such manner as he prescribed where the value was $1,000 or less, and added subsec. (b). -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other appropriate officer or entity in Departments of Agriculture and the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector of Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, see note set out under section 601 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 603 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 603. Disposition of moneys from disposal of materials -STATUTE- All moneys received from the disposal of materials under this subchapter shall be disposed of in the same manner as moneys received from the sale of public lands, except that moneys received from the disposal of materials by the Secretary of Agriculture shall be disposed of in the same manner as other moneys received by the Department of Agriculture from the administration of the lands from which the disposal of materials is made, and except that revenues from the lands described in subchapter V of chapter 28 of title 43, shall be disposed of in accordance with said sections and except that moneys received from the disposal of materials from school section lands in Alaska, reserved under section 1 of the Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), shall be set apart as separate and permanent funds in the Territorial Treasury, as provided for income derived from said school section lands pursuant to said Act. -SOURCE- (July 31, 1947, ch. 406, Sec. 3, 61 Stat. 681; Aug. 31, 1950, ch. 830, 64 Stat. 571; July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 368.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Subchapter V (Sec. 1181a et seq.) of chapter 28 of title 43, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to the Acts of Aug. 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), and June 24, 1954 (68 Stat. 270), as amended. For complete classification of these Acts to the Code, see Tables. Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1214), referred to in text, is act Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 181, 38 Stat. 1214, as amended. Section 1 of that Act, which made reservation of certain Alaska lands for educational purposes, covered disposition of proceeds or income derived from reserved lands, and set out the exclusion of certain lands, was classified to section 353 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and was repealed by Pub. L. 85-508, Sec. 6(k), July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 343. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1955 - Act July 23, 1955, provided for the disposal of moneys received by the Secretary of Agriculture, and for the disposal of revenues from the lands described in sections 1181a to 1181j of title 43. 1950 - Act Aug. 31, 1950, provided for setting apart as separate and permanent funds in the Territorial Treasury moneys received from disposal of materials from school section lands in Alaska. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other appropriate officer or entity in Departments of Agriculture and the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector of Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, see note set out under section 601 of this title. -MISC2- ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 611, 612, 615 of this title; title 31 section 6903. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 604 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER I - DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON PUBLIC LANDS -HEAD- Sec. 604. Disposal of sand, peat moss, etc., in Alaska; contracts -STATUTE- Subject to the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretary may dispose of sand, stone, gravel, and vegetative materials located below highwater mark of navigable waters of the Territory of Alaska. Any contract, unexecuted in whole or in part, for the disposal under this subchapter of materials from land, title to which is transferred to a future State upon its admission to the Union, and which is situated within its boundaries, may be terminated or adopted by such State. -SOURCE- (July 31, 1947, ch. 406, Sec. 4, as added Aug. 31, 1950, ch. 830, 64 Stat. 572.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other appropriate officer or entity in Departments of Agriculture and the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector of Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, see note set out under section 601 of this title. -MISC1- ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -End- -CITE- 30 USC SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -HEAD- SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 611 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -HEAD- Sec. 611. Common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, or cinders, and petrified wood -STATUTE- No deposit of common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, or cinders and no deposit of petrified wood shall be deemed a valuable mineral deposit within the meaning of the mining laws of the United States so as to give effective validity to any mining claim hereafter located under such mining laws: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall affect the validity of any mining location based upon discovery of some other mineral occurring in or in association with such a deposit. "Common varieties" as used in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title does not include deposits of such materials which are valuable because the deposit has some property giving it distinct and special value and does not include so-called "block pumice" which occurs in nature in pieces having one dimension of two inches or more. "Petrified wood" as used in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title means agatized, opalized, petrified, or silicified wood, or any material formed by the replacement of wood by silica or other matter. -SOURCE- (July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 3, 69 Stat. 368; Pub. L. 87-713, Sec. 1, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 652.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1962 - Pub. L. 87-713 defined "petrified wood", and provided that no deposit of petrified wood shall be deemed a valuable mineral deposit within the mining laws of the United States. REGULATIONS FOR REMOVAL OF LIMITED QUANTITIES OF PETRIFIED WOOD Section 2 of Pub. L. 87-713 provided that: "The Secretary of the Interior shall provide by regulation that limited quantities of petrified wood may be removed without charge from those public lands which he shall specify." -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 612 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -HEAD- Sec. 612. Unpatented mining claims -STATUTE- (a) Prospecting, mining or processing operations Any mining claim hereafter located under the mining laws of the United States shall not be used, prior to issuance of patent therefor, for any purposes other than prospecting, mining or processing operations and uses reasonably incident thereto. (b) Reservations in the United States to use of the surface and surface resources Rights under any mining claim hereafter located under the mining laws of the United States shall be subject, prior to issuance of patent therefor, to the right of the United States to manage and dispose of the vegetative surface resources thereof and to manage other surface resources thereof (except mineral deposits subject to location under the mining laws of the United States). Any such mining claim shall also be subject, prior to issuance of patent therefor, to the right of the United States, its permittees, and licensees, to use so much of the surface thereof as may be necessary for such purposes or for access to adjacent land: Provided, however, That any use of the surface of any such mining claim by the United States, its permittees or licensees, shall be such as not to endanger or materially interfere with prospecting, mining or processing operations or uses reasonably incident thereto: Provided further, That if at any time the locator requires more timber for his mining operations than is available to him from the claim after disposition of timber therefrom by the United States, subsequent to the location of the claim, he shall be entitled, free of charge, to be supplied with timber for such requirements from the nearest timber administered by the disposing agency which is ready for harvesting under the rules and regulations of that agency and which is substantially equivalent in kind and quantity to the timber estimated by the disposing agency to have been disposed of from the claim: Provided further, That nothing in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or in any way interfere with or modify the laws of the States which lie wholly or in part westward of the ninety-eighth meridian relating to the ownership, control, appropriation, use, and distribution of ground or surface waters within any unpatented mining claim. (c) Severance or removal of timber Except to the extent required for the mining claimant's prospecting, mining or processing operations and uses reasonably incident thereto, or for the construction of buildings or structures in connection therewith, or to provide clearance for such operations or uses, or to the extent authorized by the United States, no claimant of any mining claim hereafter located under the mining laws of the United States shall, prior to issuance of patent therefor, sever, remove, or use any vegetative or other surface resources thereof which are subject to management or disposition by the United States under subsection (b) of this section. Any severance or removal of timber which is permitted under the exceptions of the preceding sentence, other than severance or removal to provide clearance, shall be in accordance with sound principles of forest management. -SOURCE- (July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 4, 69 Stat. 368.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 613, 614 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 613 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -HEAD- Sec. 613. Procedure for determining title uncertainties -STATUTE- (a) Notice to mining claimants; request; publication; service The head of a Federal department or agency which has the responsibility for administering surface resources of any lands belonging to the United States may file as to such lands in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, or in such office as the Secretary of the Interior may designate, a request for publication of notice to mining claimants, for determination of surface rights, which request shall contain a description of the lands covered thereby, showing the section or sections of the public land surveys which embrace the lands covered by such request, or if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such lands when the public land surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United States mineral monument. The filing of such request for publication shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits of a person or persons over twenty-one years of age setting forth that the affiant or affiants have examined the lands involved in a reasonable effort to ascertain whether any person or persons were in actual possession of or engaged in the working of such lands or any part thereof, and, if no person or persons were found to be in actual possession of or engaged in the working of said lands or any part thereof on the date of such examination, setting forth such fact, or, if any person or persons were so found to be in actual possession or engaged in such working on the date of such examination, setting forth the name and address of each such person, unless affiant shall have been unable through reasonable inquiry to obtain information as to the name and address of any such person, in which event the affidavit shall set forth fully the nature and results of such inquiry. The filing of such request for publication shall also be accompanied by the certificate of a title or abstract company, or of a title abstractor, or of an attorney, based upon such company's abstractor's, or attorney's examination of those instruments which are shown by the tract indexes in the county office of record as affecting the lands described in said request, setting forth the name of any person disclosed by said instruments to have an interest in said lands under any unpatented mining claim heretofore located, together with the address of such person if such address is disclosed by such instruments of record. "Tract indexes" as used herein shall mean those indexes, if any, as to surveyed lands identifying instruments as affecting a particular legal subdivision of the public land surveys, and as to unsurveyed lands identifying instruments as affecting a particular probable legal subdivision according to a projected extension of the public land surveys. Thereupon the Secretary of the Interior, at the expense of the requesting department or agency, shall cause notice to mining claimants to be published in a newspaper having general circulation in the county in which the lands involved are situate. Such notice shall describe the lands covered by such request, as provided heretofore, and shall notify whomever it may concern that if any person claiming or asserting under, or by virtue of, any unpatented mining claim heretofore located, rights as to such lands or any part thereof, shall fail to file in the office where such request for publication was filed (which office shall be specified in such notice) and within one hundred and fifty days from the date of the first publication of such notice (which date shall be specified in such notice), a verified statement which shall set forth, as to such unpatented mining claim - (1) the date of location; (2) the book and page of recordation of the notice or certificate of location; (3) the section or sections of the public land surveys which embrace such mining claims; or if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such mining claim when the public land surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United States mineral monument; (4) whether such claimant is a locator or purchaser under such location; and (5) the name and address of such claimant and names and addresses so far as known to the claimant of any other person or persons claiming any interest or interests in or under such unpatented mining claim; such failure shall be conclusively deemed (i) to constitute a waiver and relinquishment by such mining claimant of any right, title, or interest under such mining claim contrary to or in conflict with the limitations or restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims, and (ii) to constitute a consent by such mining claimant that such mining claim, prior to issuance of patent therefor, shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims, and (iii) to preclude thereafter, prior to issuance of patent, any assertion by such mining claimant of any right or title to or interest in or under such mining claim contrary to or in conflict with the limitations or restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims. If such notice is published in a daily paper, it shall be published in the Wednesday issue for nine consecutive weeks, or, if in a weekly paper, in nine consecutive issues, or if in a semiweekly or triweekly paper, in the issue of the same day of each week for nine consecutive weeks. Within fifteen days after the date of first publication of such notice, the department or agency requesting such publication (1) shall cause a copy of such notice to be personally delivered to or to be mailed by registered mail or by certified mail addressed to each person in possession or engaged in the working of the land whose name and address is shown by an affidavit filed as aforesaid, and to each person who may have filed, as to any lands described in said notice, a request for notices, as provided in subsection (d) of this section, and shall cause a copy of such notice to be mailed by registered mail or by certified mail to each person whose name and address is set forth in the title or abstract company's or title abstractor's or attorney's certificate filed as aforesaid, as having an interest in the lands described in said notice under any unpatented mining claim heretofore located, such notice to be directed to such person's address as set forth in such certificate; and (2) shall file in the office where said request for publication was filed an affidavit showing that copies have been so delivered or mailed. (b) Failure to file verified statement If any claimant under any unpatented mining claim heretofore located which embraces any of the lands described in any notice published in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, shall fail to file a verified statement, as provided in such subsection (a), within one hundred and fifty days from the date of the first publication of such notice, such failure shall be conclusively deemed, except as otherwise provided in subsection (e) of this section, (i) to constitute a waiver and relinquishment by such mining claimant of any right, title, or interest under such mining claim contrary to or in conflict with the limitations or restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims, and (ii) to constitute a consent by such mining claimant that such mining claim, prior to issuance of patent therefor, shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims, and (iii) to preclude thereafter, prior to issuance of patent, any assertion by such mining claimant of any right or title to or interest in or under such mining claim contrary to or in conflict with the limitations or restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims. (c) Hearings If any verified statement shall be filed by a mining claimant as provided in subsection (a) of this section, then the Secretary of Interior shall fix a time and place for a hearing to determine the validity and effectiveness of any right or title to, or interest in or under such mining claim, which the mining claimant may assert contrary to or in conflict with the limitations and restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims, which place of hearing shall be in the county where the lands in question or parts thereof are located, unless the mining claimant agrees otherwise. Where verified statements are filed asserting rights to an aggregate of more than twenty mining claims, any single hearing shall be limited to a maximum of twenty mining claims unless the parties affected shall otherwise stipulate and as many separate hearing (!1) shall be set as shall be necessary to comply with this provision. The procedures with respect to notice of such a hearing and the conduct thereof, and in respect to appeals shall follow the then established general procedures and rules of practice of the Department of the Interior in respect to contests or protests affecting public lands of the United States. If, pursuant to such a hearing the final decision rendered in the matter shall affirm the validity and effectiveness of any mining claimant's so asserted right or interest under the mining claim, then no subsequent proceedings under this section shall have any force or effect upon the so-affirmed right or interest of such mining claimant under such mining claim. If at any time prior to a hearing the department or agency requesting publication of notice and any person filing a verified statement pursuant to such notice shall so stipulate, then to the extent so stipulated, but only to such extent, no hearing shall be held with respect to rights asserted under that verified statement, and to the extent defined by the stipulation the rights asserted under that verified statement shall be deemed to be unaffected by that particular published notice. (d) Request for copy of notice Any person claiming any right under or by virtue of any unpatented mining claim heretofore located and desiring to receive a copy of any notice to mining claimants which may be published as provided in subsection (a) of this section, and which may affect lands embraced in such mining claim, may cause to be filed for record in the county office of record where the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim shall have been recorded, a duly acknowledged request for a copy of any such notice. Such request for copies shall set forth the name and address of the person requesting copies and shall also set forth, as to each heretofore located unpatented mining claim under which such person asserts rights - (1) the date of location; (2) the book and page of the recordation of the notice or certificate of location; and (3) the section or sections of the public land surveys which embrace such mining claim; or if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such mining claim when the public land surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United States mineral monument. Other than in respect to the requirements of subsection (a) of this section as to personal delivery or mailing of copies of notices and in respect to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, no such request for copies of published notices and no statement or allegation in such request and no recordation thereof shall affect title to any mining claim or to any land or be deemed to constitute constructive notice to any person that the person requesting copies has, or claims, any right, title, or interest in or under any mining claim referred to in such request. (e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice If any department or agency requesting publication shall fail to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section as to the personal delivery or mailing of a copy of notice to any person, the publication of such notice shall be deemed wholly ineffectual as to that person or as to the rights asserted by that person and the failure of that person to file a verified statement, as provided in such notice, shall in no manner affect, diminish, prejudice or bar any rights of that person. -SOURCE- (July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 5, 69 Stat. 369; Pub. L. 86-507, Sec. 1(26), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 201.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1960 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86-507 inserted "or by certified mail" after "registered mail" in two places in last paragraph. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 615 of this title. -FOOTNOTE- (!1) So in original. Probably should be "hearings". -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 614 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -HEAD- Sec. 614. Waiver of rights -STATUTE- The owner or owners of any unpatented mining claim heretofore located may waive and relinquish all rights thereunder which are contrary to or in conflict with the limitations or restrictions specified in section 612 of this title as to hereafter located unpatented mining claims. The execution and acknowledgment of such a waiver and relinquishment by such owner or owners and the recordation thereof in the office where the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim is of record shall render such mining claim thereafter and prior to issuance of patent subject to the limitations and restrictions in section 612 of this title in all respects as if said mining claim had been located after July 23, 1955, but no such waiver or relinquishment shall be deemed in any manner to constitute any concession as to the date of priority of rights under said mining claim or as to the validity thereof. -SOURCE- (July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 6, 69 Stat. 372.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 615 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 615 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 15 - SURFACE RESOURCES SUBCHAPTER II - MINING LOCATIONS -HEAD- Sec. 615. Limitation of existing rights -STATUTE- Nothing in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title shall be construed in any manner to limit or restrict or to authorize the limitation or restriction of any existing rights of any claimant under any valid mining claim heretofore located, except as such rights may be limited or restricted as a result of a proceeding pursuant to section 613 of this title, or as a result of a waiver and relinquishment pursuant to section 614 of this title; and nothing in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title shall be construed in any manner to authorized inclusion in any patent hereafter issued under the mining laws of the United States for any mining claim heretofore or hereafter located, of any reservation, limitation, or restriction not otherwise authorized by law, or to limit or repeal any existing authority to include any reservation, limitation, or restriction in any such patent, or to limit or restrict any use of the lands covered by any patented or unpatented mining claim by the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees which is otherwise authorized by law. -SOURCE- (July 23, 1955, ch. 375, Sec. 7, 69 Stat. 372.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -MISC1- Sec. 621. Entry to lands reserved for power development. (a) Conditions of entry. (b) Placer claims; notice; hearing; order; rules and regulations. (c) Validity of withdrawals unaffected. 622. Liability for damage, destruction, or loss of claim. 623. Recording and reporting of unpatented claims; time. 624. Protection of existing valid claims. 625. Prohibition of unspecified use. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in title 16 section 1907; title 43 section 299. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 621 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 621. Entry to lands reserved for power development -STATUTE- (a) Conditions of entry All public lands belonging to the United States heretofore, now or hereafter withdrawn or reserved for power development or power sites shall be open to entry for location and patent of mining claims and for mining, development, beneficiation, removal, and utilization of the mineral resources of such lands under applicable Federal statutes: Provided, That all power rights to such lands shall be retained by the United States: Provided further, That locations made under this chapter within the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon grant lands shall also be subject to the provisions of the Act of April 8, 1948, Public Law 477 (Eightieth Congress, second session): And provided further, That nothing contained herein shall be construed to open for the purposes described in this section any lands (1) which are included in any project operating or being constructed under a license or permit issued under the Federal Power Act [16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.] or other Act of Congress, or (2) which are under examination and survey by a prospective licensee of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, if such prospective licensee holds an uncanceled preliminary permit issued under the Federal Power Act authorizing him to conduct such examination and survey with respect to such lands and such permit has not been renewed in the case of such prospective licensee more than once. (b) Placer claims; notice; hearing; order; rules and regulations The locator of a placer claim under this chapter, however, shall conduct no mining operations for a period of sixty days after the filing of a notice of location pursuant to section 623 of this title. If the Secretary of the Interior, within sixty days from the filing of the notice of location, notifies the locator by registered mail or certified mail of the Secretary's intention to hold a public hearing to determine whether placer mining operations would substantially interfere with other uses of the land included within the placer claim, mining operations on that claim shall be further suspended until the Secretary has held the hearing and has issued an appropriate order. The order issued by the Secretary of the Interior shall provide for one of the following: (1) a complete prohibition of placer mining; (2) a permission to engage in placer mining upon the condition that the locator shall, following placer operations, restore the surface of the claim to the condition in which it was immediately prior to those operations; or (3) a general permission to engage in placer mining. No order by the Secretary with respect to such operations shall be valid unless a certified copy is filed in the same State or county office in which the locator's notice of location has been filed in compliance with the United States mining laws. The Secretary shall establish such rules and regulations as he deems desirable concerning bonds and deposits with respect to the restoration of lands to their condition prior to placer mining operations. Moneys received from any bond or deposit shall be used for the restoration of the surface of the claim involved, and any money received in excess of the amount needed for the restoration of the surface of that claim shall be refunded. (c) Validity of withdrawals unaffected Nothing in this chapter shall affect the validity of withdrawals or reservations for purposes other than power development. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 797, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 682; Pub. L. 86-507, Sec. 1(27), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 202; Pub. L. 95-91, title IV, Sec. 402(a)(1)(A), title VII, Secs. 703, 707, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 584, 606, 607.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Act of April 8, 1948, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Apr. 8, 1948, ch. 179, 62 Stat. 162, which is not classified to the Code. The Federal Power Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is act June 10, 1920, ch. 285, 41 Stat. 1063, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (Sec. 791a et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 791a of Title 16 and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1960 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86-507 inserted "or certified mail" after "registered mail". SHORT TITLE Section 1 of act Aug. 11, 1955, provided: "That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the 'Mining Claims Rights Restoration Act of 1955'." -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission" substituted for "Federal Power Commission" in subsec. (a) pursuant to sections 402(a)(1)(A), 703, and 707 of Pub. L. 95-91, which are classified to sections 7172(a)(1)(A), 7293, and 7297 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and which terminated Federal Power Commission and transferred its functions relating to licensing and permits for dams, reservoirs, or other works for development and improvement of navigation and for development and utilization of power across, along, from, or in navigable waters under part I of Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.) to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 623, 625 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 622 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 622. Liability for damage, destruction, or loss of claim -STATUTE- Prospecting and exploration for and the development and utilization of mineral resources authorized in this chapter shall be entered into or continued at the financial risk of the individual party or parties undertaking such work: Provided, That the United States, its permittees and licensees shall not be responsible or held liable or incur any liability for the damage, destruction, or loss of any mining claim, mill site, facility installed or erected, income, or other property or investments resulting from the actual use of such lands or portions thereof for power development at any time where such power development is made by or under the authority of the United States, except where such damage, destruction, or loss results from the negligence of the United States, its permittees and licensees. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 797, Sec. 3, 69 Stat. 682.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 623 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 623. Recording and reporting of unpatented claims; time -STATUTE- The owner of any unpatented mining claim located on land described in section 621 of this title shall file for record in the United States district land office of the land district in which the claim is situated (1) within one year after August 11, 1955, as to any or all locations heretofore made, or within sixty days of location as to locations hereafter made, a copy of the notice of location of the claim; (2) within sixty days after the expiration of any annual assessment year, a statement as to the assessment work done or improvements made during the previous assessment year. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 797, Sec. 4, 69 Stat. 683.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 621 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 624 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 624. Protection of existing valid claims -STATUTE- Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights of the owner or owners of any valid mining claim located prior to the date of withdrawal or reservation: Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights of the owner or owners of any mining claim who are diligently working to make a discovery of valuable minerals at the time any future withdrawal or reservation for power development is made. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 797, Sec. 5, 69 Stat. 683.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 625 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 16 - MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 625. Prohibition of unspecified use -STATUTE- Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, all mining claims and mill sites or mineral rights located under the terms of this chapter or otherwise contained on the public lands as described in section 621 of this title shall be used only for the purposes specified in section 621 of this title and no facility or activity shall be erected or conducted thereon for other purposes. -SOURCE- (Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 797, Sec. 6, 69 Stat. 683.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -MISC1- Sec. 641. Establishment and maintenance of program for exploration; financial assistance. 642. Exploration contracts. (a) Terms and conditions; interest rates. (b) Deposit of royalty payments. (c) Certification of exploration projects; payment of royalties; time limitation on payment; royalty agreements. (d) Production. (e) Rules and regulations; adjustment of contracts. (f) Availability of funds. 643. "Exploration" defined. 644. Advice and assistance by Government departments and agencies; expenditure of funds. 645. Repealed. 646. Authorization of appropriations. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 641 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- Sec. 641. Establishment and maintenance of program for exploration; financial assistance -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, in order to provide for discovery of additional domestic mineral reserves, to establish and maintain a program for exploration by private industry within the United States, its Territories and possessions for such minerals, excluding organic fuels, as he shall from time to time designate, and to provide Federal financial assistance on a participating basis for that purpose. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-701, Sec. 1, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 700.) -MISC1- CONGRESSIONAL DECLARATION OF POLICY The recital clause of Pub. L. 85-701, which preceded section 1, provided: "That it is declared to be the policy of the Congress to stimulate exploration for minerals within the United States, its Territories and possessions." -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 642 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- Sec. 642. Exploration contracts -STATUTE- (a) Terms and conditions; interest rates In order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, and subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary is authorized to enter into exploration contracts with individuals, partnerships, corporations, or other legal entities which shall provide for such Federal financial participation as he deems in the national interest. Such contracts shall contain terms and conditions as the Secretary deems necessary and appropriate, including terms and conditions for the repayment of the Federal funds made available under any contract together with interest thereon, as a royalty on the value of the production from the area described in the contract. Interest shall be calculated from the date of the loan. Such interest shall be at rates which (1) are not less than the rates of interest which the Secretary of the Treasury shall determine the Department of the Interior would have to pay if it borrowed such funds from the Treasury of the United States, taking into consideration current average yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States with maturities comparable to the terms of the particular contracts involved and (2) plus 2 per centum per annum in lieu of recovering the cost of administering the particular contracts. (b) Deposit of royalty payments Royalty payments received under subsection (a) of this section shall be covered into the miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. (c) Certification of exploration projects; payment of royalties; time limitation on payment; royalty agreements When in the opinion of the Secretary an analysis and evaluation of the results of the exploration project disclose that mineral production from the area covered by the contract may be possible he shall so certify within the time specified in the contract. Upon certification, payment of royalties shall be a charge against production for the full period specified in the contract or until the obligation has been discharged, but in no event shall such royalty payments continue for a period of more than twenty-five years from the date of contract. When the Secretary determines not to certify he shall promptly notify the contractor. When the Secretary deems it necessary and in the public interest, he may enter into royalty agreements to provide for royalty payments in the same manner as though the project had been certified. (d) Production No provision of this chapter, nor any rule or regulation which may be issued by the Secretary shall be construed to require any production from the area described in the contract. (e) Rules and regulations; adjustment of contracts The Secretary shall establish and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter: Provided, however, That he may modify and adjust the terms and conditions of any contract to reduce the amount and term of any royalty payment when he shall determine that such action is necessary and in the public interest: Provided further, That no such single contract shall authorize Government participation in excess of $250,000. (f) Availability of funds No funds shall be made available under this chapter unless the applicant shall furnish evidence that funds from commercial sources are unavailable on reasonable terms. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-701, Sec. 2, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 700.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 643 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- Sec. 643. "Exploration" defined -STATUTE- As used in this chapter, the term "exploration" means the search for new or unexplored deposits of minerals, including related development work, within the United States, its Territories and possessions, whether conducted from the surface or underground, using recognized and sound procedures including standard geophysical and geochemical methods for obtaining mineralogical and geological information. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-701, Sec. 3, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 701.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 644 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- Sec. 644. Advice and assistance by Government departments and agencies; expenditure of funds -STATUTE- Departments and agencies of the Government are authorized to advise and assist the Secretary of the Interior, upon his request, in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and may expend their funds for such purposes, with or without reimbursement, in accordance with such agreements as may be necessary. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-701, Sec. 4, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 701.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 645 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- Sec. 645. Repealed. Pub. L. 93-608, Sec. 1(13), Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1969 -MISC1- Section, Pub. L. 85-701, Sec. 5, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 89-348, Sec. 2(5), Nov. 8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1312, required Secretary of the Interior to report to Congress on operations of programs authorized pursuant to this chapter. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 646 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 17 - EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS -HEAD- Sec. 646. Authorization of appropriations -STATUTE- There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 85-701, Sec. 6, Aug. 21, 1958, 72 Stat. 701.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -MISC1- Sec. 661. Definitions. 662. Office of Coal Research; powers and duties. 663. Advisory committees. (a) Minutes of meetings. (b) Availability of minutes or reports. (c) Compensation; travel expenses. (d) Exemption from conflict-of-interest statutes. 664. Director of Coal Research; appointment. 665. Sites for conducting research; availability of personnel and facilities. 666. Public-availability requirement; national defense; patent agreements. 667. Reports to President and Congress. 668. Authorization of appropriations. (a) Fiscal year beginning July 1, 1960. (b) Fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1961. (c) Availability of sums. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in title 42 section 5814. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 661 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 661. Definitions -STATUTE- As used in this chapter (a) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. (b) The term "research" means scientific, technical, and economic research and the practical application of that research. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 1, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 336.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior, and officers components of such Department relating to or utilized by Office of Coal Research transferred to Administrator of Energy Research and Development Administration by section 5814 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Energy Research and Development Administration was terminated and functions vested by law in Administrator thereof transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by sections 7151(a) and 7293 of Title 42. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 662 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 662. Office of Coal Research; powers and duties -STATUTE- The Secretary shall establish within the Department of the Interior an Office of Coal Research, and through such Office shall - (1) develop through research, new and more efficient methods of mining, preparing, and utilizing coal; (2) contract for, sponsor, cosponsor, and promote the coordination of, research with recognized interested groups, including but not limited to, coal trade associations, coal research associations, educational institutions, and agencies of States and political subdivisions of States; (3) establish technical advisory committees composed of recognized experts in various aspects of coal research to assist in the examination and evaluation of research progress and of all research proposals and contracts and to insure the avoidance of duplication of research; and (4) cooperate to the fullest extent possible with other departments, agencies, and independent establishments of the Federal Government and with State governments, and with all other interested agencies, governmental and nongovernmental. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 2, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 336.) -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 661 of this title. -MISC1- TERMINATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 663 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 663. Advisory committees -STATUTE- (a) Minutes of meetings Any advisory committee appointed under the provisions of this chapter shall keep minutes of each meeting, which shall contain as a minimum (1) the name of each person attending such meeting, (2) a copy of the agenda, and (3) a record of all votes or polls taken during the meeting. (b) Availability of minutes or reports A copy of any such minutes or of any report made by any such committee after final action has been taken thereon by the Secretary shall be available to the public upon request and payment of the cost of furnishing such copy. (c) Compensation; travel expenses Members of any advisory committee appointed from private life under authority of this section shall each receive $50 per diem when engaged in the actual performance of their duties as a member of such advisory committee. Such members shall also be entitled to travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rates authorized by section 5703 of title 5 for all persons employed intermittently as consultants or experts receiving compensation on a per diem basis. (d) Exemption from conflict-of-interest statutes Service by an individual as a member of such an advisory committee shall not subject him to the provisions of section 1914 of title 18, or, except with respect to a particular matter which directly involves the Office of Coal Research or in which the Office of Coal Research is directly interested, to the provisions of sections 281, 283, or 284 of title 18 or of section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99). -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 3, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 336.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 281, 283, 284, and 1914 of title 18, referred to in subsec. (d), were repealed by Pub. L. 87-849, Sec. 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1126, "except as they [sections 281 and 283] may apply to retired officers of the armed forces of the United States", and were supplanted by sections 203, 205, 207, and 209, respectively, of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. For further details, see Exemptions note set out under section 203 of Title 18. Section 190 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in subsec. (d), was repealed by Pub. L. 87-849, Sec. 3, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1126. See section 207 of Title 18. -COD- CODIFICATION In subsec. (c), "section 5703 of title 5" substituted for "section 73b-2 of title 5" on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept, 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 661 of this title. -MISC1- TERMINATION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES Advisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. Advisory committees established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. See section 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 664 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 664. Director of Coal Research; appointment -STATUTE- The Secretary may appoint a Director of Coal Research without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, or chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 4 (part), July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 336.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The civil service laws, referred to in text, are set forth in Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5. -COD- CODIFICATION "Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5" substituted in text for "the Classification Act of 1949, as amended" on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. -TRANS- TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS See note set out under section 661 of this title. -MISC1- COMPENSATION OF DIRECTOR The annual rate of basic compensation of the Director was established at $17,500 by section 107(a)(23) of act July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title I, as added by Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 4, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 336. Section 301 of Pub. L. 87-367, title III, Oct. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 792, repealed section 107(a)(23) of act July 31, 1956, and section 304 of Pub. L. 87-367 directed that the position of Director shall be placed in the appropriate grade of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (see chapter 51 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees). -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 665 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 665. Sites for conducting research; availability of personnel and facilities -STATUTE- Research authorized by this chapter may be conducted wherever suitable personnel and facilities are available. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 5, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 337.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 666 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 666. Public-availability requirement; national defense; patent agreements -STATUTE- No research shall be carried out, contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this chapter, unless all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research will (with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary may find to be necessary in the interest of national defense) be available to the general public. Whenever in the estimation of the Secretary the purposes of this chapter would be furthered through the use of patented processes or equipment, the Secretary is authorized to enter into such agreements as he deems necessary for the acquisition or use of such patents on reasonable terms and conditions. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 6, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 337.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in title 35 section 210. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 667 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 667. Reports to President and Congress -STATUTE- The Secretary shall submit to the President and the Congress, on or before February 15 of each year, beginning with the year 1961, a comprehensive report concerning activities under the authority of this chapter, including information on all research projects conducted, sponsored, or cosponsored under the authority of this chapter during the preceding year. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 7, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 337.) -MISC1- TERMINATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in this section relating to requirement to submit annual report to Congress, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 88 of House Document No. 103-7. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 668 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 18 - COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -HEAD- Sec. 668. Authorization of appropriations -STATUTE- (a) Fiscal year beginning July 1, 1960 There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to remain available until expended, not to exceed $2,000,000 to be used to carry out the purposes of this chapter for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1960. (b) Fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1961 There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1961, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (c) Availability of sums Sums appropriated to carry out the purposes of this chapter shall remain available until expended. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 86-599, Sec. 8, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 337.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 19 - LEAD AND ZINC STABILIZATION PROGRAM 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 19 - LEAD AND ZINC STABILIZATION PROGRAM -HEAD- CHAPTER 19 - LEAD AND ZINC STABILIZATION PROGRAM -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 681 to 689 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 19 - LEAD AND ZINC STABILIZATION PROGRAM -HEAD- Secs. 681 to 689. Omitted -COD- CODIFICATION Section 681, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 1, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 766, stated purpose of this chapter as establishment and maintenance of a program of stabilization payments (which terminated December 31, 1969) to small domestic producers of lead and zinc ores and concentrates in order to stabilize the mining of lead and zinc by such producers. See note for section 687 below. Section 682, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 2, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 766; Pub. L. 89-238, Sec. 1(1), Oct. 5, 1965, 79 Stat. 925, provided for stabilization payments (which terminated December 31, 1969) and conditions and limitations of payments. See note for section 687 below. Section 683, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 3, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 767; Pub. L. 89-238, Sec. 1(2), Oct. 5, 1965, 79 Stat. 925, provided for additional limitations on payments which terminated on December 31, 1969. See note for section 687 below. Section 684, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 4, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 767, authorized Secretary to promulgate such regulations and require such reports as deemed necessary to carry out program of stabilization payments (which terminated December 31, 1969) under this chapter. See note for section 687 below. Section 685, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 5, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 768, authorized Secretary to delegate functions relating to stabilization payments (which terminated December 31, 1969) under this chapter to Administrator of General Services. See note for section 687 below. Section 686, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 6, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 768; Pub. L. 88-75, July 25, 1963, 77 Stat. 92; Pub. L. 89-238, Sec. 1(3), Oct. 5, 1965, 79 Stat. 925, defined terms as used in this chapter relating to stabilization payments which terminated December 31, 1969. See note for section 687 below. Section 687, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 7, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 768; Pub. L. 89-238, Sec. 1(4), Oct. 5, 1965, 79 Stat. 925, provided that no payment be made under this chapter after Dec. 31, 1969, but permitted authorized payment only if application therefor was filed not later than Mar. 31, 1970. Section 688, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 8, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 768, required annual reports to Congress on operations relating to stabilization payments (which terminated December 31, 1969) under this chapter not later than first day of March each year. See note for section 687 above. Section 689, Pub. L. 87-347, Sec. 9, Oct. 3, 1961, 75 Stat. 768; Pub. L. 89-238, Sec. 1(5), Oct. 5, 1965, 79 Stat. 925, related to penalties for procuring a stabilization payment (which terminated December 31, 1969) not entitled to under this chapter and civil and criminal liability for keeping a payment not entitled to under this chapter. See note for section 687 above. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -MISC1- Sec. 701. Authorization to convey; acreage limitations; qualified applicants; payment; "qualified officer of the United States" defined. 702. "Qualified applicant" defined. 703. Withdrawal of lands in aid of a governmental unit. 704. Purchase of substitute lands; limitations; conditions; payment; conveyance of less than a fee. 705. Purchase price of conveyed interest; installment payments. 706. Liabilities of occupants; trespass; limitations. 707. Reservation of mineral rights. 708. Assignments; succession. 709. Disposition of payments and fees. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 701 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 701. Authorization to convey; acreage limitations; qualified applicants; payment; "qualified officer of the United States" defined -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior may convey to any occupant of an unpatented mining claim which is determined by the Secretary to be invalid an interest, up to and including a fee simple, in and to an area within the claim of not more than (a) five acres or (b) the acreage actually occupied by him, whichever is less. The Secretary may make a like conveyance to any occupant of an unpatented mining claim who, after notice from a qualified officer of the United States that the claim is believed to be invalid, relinquishes to the United States all rights in and to such claim which he may have under the mining laws. Any conveyance authorized by this section, however, shall be made only to a qualified applicant, as that term is defined in section 702 of this title, who applies therefor within the period ending June 30, 1971, and upon payment of an amount established in accordance with section 705 of this title. As used in this section, the term "qualified officer of the United States" means the Secretary of the Interior or an employee of the Department of the Interior so designated by him: Provided, That the Secretary may delegate his authority to designate qualified officers to the head of any other department or agency of the United States with respect to lands within the administrative jurisdiction of that department or agency. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 1, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127; Pub. L. 90-111, Sec. 1, Oct. 23, 1967, 81 Stat. 311.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1967 - Pub. L. 90-111 extended from Oct. 23, 1967, to June 30, 1971, the period in which qualified individuals shall apply for conveyances authorized by this section. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 703, 704, 706 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 702 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 702. "Qualified applicant" defined -STATUTE- For the purposes of this chapter a qualified applicant is a residential occupant-owner, as of October 23, 1962, of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to July 23, 1962. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 701 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 703 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 703. Withdrawal of lands in aid of a governmental unit -STATUTE- Where the lands for which application is made under section 701 of this title have been withdrawn in aid of a function of a Federal department or agency other than the Department of the Interior, or of a State, county, municipality, water district, or other local governmental subdivision or agency, the Secretary of the Interior may convey an interest therein only with the consent of the head of the governmental unit concerned and under such terms and conditions as said head may deem necessary. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 3, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 704 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 704 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 704. Purchase of substitute lands; limitations; conditions; payment; conveyance of less than a fee -STATUTE- (a) If the Secretary of the Interior determines that conveyance of an interest under section 701 of this title is otherwise justified but the consent required by section 703 of this title is not given, he may, in accordance with such procedural rules and regulations as he may prescribe, grant the applicant a right to purchase, for residential use, an interest in another tract of land, five acres or less in area, from tracts made available by him for sale under this chapter (1) from the unappropriated and unreserved lands of the United States, or (2) from lands subject to classification under section 315f of title 43. Said right shall not be granted until arrangements satisfactory to the Secretary have been made for termination of the applicant's occupancy of his unpatented mining claim and for settlement of any liability for the unauthorized use thereof which may have been incurred and shall expire five years from the date on which it was granted unless sooner exercised. The amount to be paid for the interest shall be determined in accordance with section 705 of this title. (b) Any conveyance of less than a fee made under this chapter shall include provision for removal from the tract of any improvements or other property of the applicant at the close of the period for which the conveyance is made, or if it be an interest terminating on the death of the applicant, within one year thereafter. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 705 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 705. Purchase price of conveyed interest; installment payments -STATUTE- The Secretary of the Interior, prior to any conveyance under this chapter, shall determine the fair market value of the interest to be conveyed, exclusive of the value of any improvements placed on the lands involved by the applicant or his predecessors in interest. Said value shall be determined as of the date of appraisal. In establishing the purchase price to be paid by the applicant for the interest, the Secretary shall take into consideration any equities of the applicant and his predecessors in interest, including conditions of prior use and occupancy. In any event the purchase price for any interest conveyed shall not exceed its fair market value nor be less than $5 per acre. The Secretary may, in his discretion, allow payment to be made in installments. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 5, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128.) -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 701, 704 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 706 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 706. Liabilities of occupants; trespass; limitations -STATUTE- (a) The execution of a conveyance as authorized by section 701 of this title shall not relieve any occupant of the land conveyed of any liability, existing on the date of said conveyance, to the United States for unauthorized use of the land in and to which an interest is conveyed. (b) Except where a mining claim embracing land applied for under this chapter by a qualified applicant was located at a time when the land included therein was withdrawn or otherwise not subject to such location, no trespass charges shall be sought or collected by the United States from any qualified applicant who has filed an application for land in the mining claim pursuant to this chapter, based upon occupancy of such claim, whether residential or otherwise, for any period preceding the final administrative determination of the invalidity of the mining claim by the Secretary of the Interior or the voluntary relinquishment of the mining claim, whichever occurs earlier. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as creating any liability for trespass to the United States which would not exist in the absence of this chapter. Relief under this section shall be limited to persons who file applications for conveyances pursuant to section 701 of this title within the period ending June 30, 1971. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 6, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128; Pub. L. 90-111, Sec. 2, Oct. 23, 1967, 81 Stat. 311.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1967 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90-111 extended from Oct. 23, 1967 to June 30, 1971, the period in which relief shall be accorded under this section to individuals who apply for conveyances pursuant to section 701 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 707 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 707. Reservation of mineral rights -STATUTE- In any conveyance under this chapter the mineral interests of the United States in the lands conveyed are reserved for the term of the estate conveyed. Minerals locatable under the mining laws or disposable under subchapter I of chapter 15 of this title, are withdrawn from all forms of entry and appropriation for the term of the estate. The underlying oil, gas, and other leasable minerals of the United States are reserved for exploration and development purposes, but without the right of surface ingress and egress, and may be leased by the Secretary under the mineral leasing laws. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 7, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT The mining laws and the mineral leasing laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 708 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 708. Assignments; succession -STATUTE- Rights and privileges to qualify as an applicant under this chapter shall not be assignable, but may pass through devise or descent. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 8, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 709 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 20 - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS -HEAD- Sec. 709. Disposition of payments and fees -STATUTE- Payments of filing fees and survey costs, and the payments of the purchase price for patents in fee shall be disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior as are such fees, costs, and purchase prices in the disposition of public lands. All payments and fees for occupancy in conveyances of less than the fee, or for permits for life or shorter periods, shall be disposed of by the administering department or agency as are other receipts for the use of the lands involved. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 9, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128.) -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 21 - METAL AND NONMETALLIC MINE SAFETY 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 21 - METAL AND NONMETALLIC MINE SAFETY -HEAD- CHAPTER 21 - METAL AND NONMETALLIC MINE SAFETY -End- -CITE- 30 USC Secs. 721 to 740 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 21 - METAL AND NONMETALLIC MINE SAFETY -HEAD- Secs. 721 to 740. Repealed. Pub. L. 95-164, title III, Sec. 306(a), Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1322 -MISC1- This chapter, covering the operation of only metal and nonmetallic mines, is covered by section 801 et seq. of this title following the enactment of Pub. L. 95-164 which brought the operation of all coal and other mines under a single legislative canopy. Section 721, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 2, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 772, defined "commerce", "mine", "operator", "Secretary", and "Board". See section 802 of this title. Section 722, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 3, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 773, described mines to be covered and empowered Secretary of the Interior to decline jurisdiction if effect of the mine on commerce was not sufficiently substantial. See section 801 et seq. of this title. Section 723, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 4, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 773, related to investigations of metal and nonmetallic mines to obtain information relating to health and safety conditions. See section 811 of this title. Section 724, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 5, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 773, related to admission of investigators to mines. See section 813 of this title. Section 725, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 6, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 774, related to development of health and safety standards. See section 811 of this title. Section 726, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 7, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 775, related to advisory committees. See section 812 of this title. Section 727, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 8, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 775, related to findings and orders. See section 814 of this title. Section 728, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 9, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 777, related to review of orders by Secretary of the Interior. See section 815 of this title. Section 729, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 10, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 778, created Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Board of Review. See section 823 of this title. Section 730, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 11, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 779, related to review functions of Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Board of Review. See section 823 of this title. Section 731, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 12, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 781, related to judicial review of final orders of Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Board of Review. See section 816 of this title. Section 732, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 13, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 782, related to accident and related reports to Secretary of the Interior. See section 813 of this title. Section 733, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 14, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 782, related to penalties to be imposed for violations of the chapter. See section 820 of this title. Section 734, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 15, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 782, related to programs of education and training for employers and employees. See section 825 of this title. Section 735, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 16, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 782, related to State plans and cooperation with State agencies. See section 811 of this title. Section 736, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 17, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 783, related to administration of chapter by Bureau of Mines of Department of the Interior. See section 557a of Title 29, Labor. Section 737, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 18, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 784, related to non-applicability of Administrative Procedure Act to proceedings under chapter. See section 815 of this title. Section 738, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 19, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 784, related to effect of chapter on State laws. See section 811 of this title. Section 739, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 20, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 784, related to annual report of Secretary of the Interior to Congress. See section 557a of Title 29, Labor. Section 740, Pub. L. 89-577, Sec. 21, Sept. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 784, authorized appropriations necessary to carry out chapter. See section 824 of this title. EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL Repeal effective 120 days after Nov. 9, 1977, see section 307 of Pub. L. 95-164, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 801 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH -MISC1- CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH Sec. 801. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose. 802. Definitions. 803. Mines subject to coverage. 804. Interim Compliance Panel. (a) Establishment; composition. (b) Compensation; travel and subsistence expenses. (c) Cooperation of Federal agencies. (d) Quorum; voting; selection of chairman. (e) Appointment of administrative law judges; provisions applicable. (f) Functions; hearings; notice and review; termination; annual report. SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL 811. Mandatory safety and health standards. (a) Development, promulgation, and revision. (b) Emergency temporary mandatory standards. (c) Modification of standards. (d) Judicial review. (e) Distribution of copies of proposed standards or regulations. 812. Advisory committees. (a) Committee on coal or other mine safety research; establishment; membership; chairman; functions; conflicts of interest. (b) Committee on coal or other mine health research; establishment; membership; chairman; functions; conflicts of interest. (c) Additional advisory committees; chairman; conflicts of interest. (d) Compensation; travel and subsistence expenses. 813. Inspections, investigations, and recordkeeping. (a) Purposes; advance notice; frequency; guidelines; right of access. (b) Notice and hearing; subpoenas; witnesses; contempt. (c) Records of employee exposure to toxic materials or harmful physical agents; undue exposure. (d) Accident investigations; records. (e) Collecting information without unreasonable burden on operators. (f) Participation of representatives of operators and miners in inspections. (g) Immediate inspection; notice of violation or danger; determination. (h) Records and reports; compilation and publication; availability. (i) Spot inspections. (j) Accident notification; rescue and recovery activities. (k) Safety orders; recovery plans. 814. Citations and orders. (a) Issuance and form of citations; prompt issuance. (b) Follow-up inspections; findings. (c) Exempt persons. (d) Findings of violations; withdrawal order. (e) Pattern of violations; abatement; termination of pattern. (f) Respirable dust concentrations; dust control person or team. (g) Untrained miners. (h) Duration of citations and orders. 815. Procedure for enforcement. (a) Notification of civil penalty; contest. (b) Failure of operator to correct violation; notification; contest; temporary relief. (c) Discrimination or interference prohibited; complaint; investigation; determination; hearing. (d) Contest proceedings; hearing; findings of fact; affirmance, modification, or vacatur of citation, order, or proposed penalty; procedure before Commission. 816. Judicial review of Commission orders. (a) Petition by person adversely affected or aggrieved; temporary relief. (b) Petition by Secretary for review or enforcement of final Commission orders. (c) Stay of order or decision of Commission or Panel. 817. Procedures to counteract dangerous conditions. (a) Withdrawal orders. (b) Notice to mine operators; further investigation; findings and decision by Secretary. (c) Form and content of orders. (d) Findings; duration of orders. (e) Reinstatement, modification, and vacatur of orders. 818. Injunctions. (a) Civil action by Secretary. (b) Jurisdiction; relief; findings of Commission or Secretary. 819. Posting of orders and decisions. (a) Mine office; bulletin board. (b) Distribution of orders, citations, notices, and decisions. (c) Compliance. (d) Filing; designation of health and safety officers. 820. Penalties. (a) Civil penalty for violation of mandatory health or safety standards. (b) Civil penalty for failure to correct violation for which citation has been issued. (c) Liability of corporate directors, officers, and agents. (d) Criminal penalties. (e) Unauthorized advance notice of inspections. (f) False statements, representations, or certifications. (g) Violation by miners of safety standards relating to smoking. (h) Equipment falsely represented as complying with statute, specification, or regulations. (i) Authority to assess civil penalties. (j) Payment of penalties; interest. (k) Compromise, mitigation, and settlement of penalty. (l) Inapplicability to black lung benefit provisions. 821. Entitlement of miners to full compensation. 822. Representation of Secretary in civil litigation by Solicitor of Labor. 823. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. (a) Establishment; membership; chairman. (b) Terms; personnel; administrative law judges. (c) Delegation of powers. (d) Proceedings before administrative law judge; administrative review. (e) Witnesses and evidence; subpoenas; contempt. 823a. Principal office in District of Columbia; proceedings held elsewhere. 824. Authorization of appropriations. 825. Mandatory health and safety training. (a) Approved program; regulations. (b) Training compensation. (c) Certificate. (d) Standards. (e) Proposed regulations. SUBCHAPTER II - INTERIM MANDATORY HEALTH STANDARDS 841. Mandatory health standards for underground mines; enforcement; review; purpose. 842. Dust concentration and respiratory equipment. (a) Samples; procedures; transmittal; notice of excess concentration; periodic reports to Secretary; contents. (b) Standards; noncompliance permit; renewal; procedures; limitations; extension period. (c) Applications for noncompliance; contents. (d) Promulgation of new standards; procedures. (e) Concentration of respirable dust. (f) Average concentration. (g) Compliance inspections. (h) Maintenance of respiratory equipment; substitutes for environmental controls. 843. Medical examinations. (a) Chest roentgenogram; availability; periodic intervals; other tests; transmittal of results; advice of rights. (b) Evidence of pneumoconiosis; option to transfer; wages. (c) Costs of examinations and tests. (d) Autopsies. 844. Rock dust and gas hazards; controls. 845. Dust standards in presence of quartz. 846. Noise standards; promulgation of new standards; tests; procedures; protective devices. SUBCHAPTER III - INTERIM MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS FOR UNDERGROUND COAL MINES 861. Mandatory safety standards for underground mines. (a) Coverage; enforcement; review. (b) Purpose; initiation of studies and research. 862. Roof support. (a) Roof control plan; contents; review; availability. (b) Creation of dangers by roof falls. (c) Location and supply of roof support material; safety devices for roof work. (d) Roof bolts. (e) Recovery of roof bolts. (f) Safety inspections; correction of dangerous conditions. 863. Ventilation. (a) Equipment; approval; daily examinations. (b) Standards for air in work areas. (c) Line brattice; functions; exceptions; repairs; flame resistant material. (d) Pre-shift examinations and tests; scope; violations of mandatory standards; notification; posting of "DANGER" signs; restriction of entry; records; re-entry. (e) Daily examinations and tests; scope; imminent danger; withdrawal of persons; abatement of danger. (f) Weekly examination for hazardous conditions; scope; notification; repairs; imminent danger; withdrawal of persons; abatement; records. (g) Weekly ventilation examinations; scope; records. (h) Methane examinations at working place; periodic intervals; standards; procedures for different air contents of methane. (i) Methane examination of air returning from working section; periodic intervals; standards; procedures for different air contents; virgin territory. (j) Abandoned area air; pre-shift examination. (k) Abandoned area air; inaccessible or unsafe for inspection; air from where pillars have been removed. (l) Methane monitors; required equipment; maintenance; warnings; deenergizing of equipment. (m) Idle area inspections; authorized inspectors. (n) Intentional roof falls; prior inspections; safeguards. (o) Methane and dust control plans; contents. (p) Devices for detection of methane and oxygen deficiency; maintenance. (q) Pillar recovery; areas without bleeder systems. (r) Overcast and undercast intake air split requirements; time extension. (s) Blasting; prior and subsequent examinations for methane. (t) Mine fan stop plans; requisites. (u) Modifications affecting main air current or any split; withdrawal of personnel; removal of power. (v) Reading and countersigning of daily and weekly reports; foreman; superintendent. (w) Daily mine condition reports; requisites; signatures. (x) Reopening of abandoned or declared inactive mine; notification; inspection. (y) Separation of intake and return aircourses from belt haulage entries; standards. (z) Pillar extractions; bleeder systems and sealing requirements; standards. 864. Combustible materials and rock dusting. (a) Accumulations; maintenance. (b) Abatement of hazards in active working areas. (c) Rock dusting of all areas of underground mines; exceptions. (d) Distribution of rock dust; places, quantities. (e) Limitation of applicability. 865. Electrical equipment. (a) Allowable equipment; replacements; maintenance; permits for noncompliance; renewals; limitations; list of electric face equipment; survey of new and rebuilt equipment; publication of results. (b) Notification of permits. (c) Gassy mines; maintenance of equipment. (d) Location of nonpermissible power connection units. (e) Mine map; contents; modifications. (f) Repairs; deenergizing of equipment; authorized personnel; locking out of disconnection devices. (g) Periodic examinations; maintenance; records; accessibility. (h) Electrical conductors. (i) Electrical connections. (j) Cables and wires; entry through metal frames. (k) Support of power wires. (l) Insulation of power wires; exceptions. (m) Circuit breakers; overload protection for three-phase motors. (n) Disconnecting switches for main power circuits; location and installation. (o) Switches. (p) Lightning arresters. (q) Nonapproved devices. (r) Deenergizing of electric face equipment. 866. Trailing cables. (a) Requirements established for flame resistant cables. (b) Circuit breakers; markings and visual observation of position of disconnection devices. (c) Distribution center junctions; safety connections. (d) Temporary splices; usable period; exceptions; quality. (e) Permanent splices; quality. (f) Clamping of cables. (g) Making and breaking of connections to junction boxes. 867. Grounding of equipment. (a) Metallic enclosed power conductors; metallic frames and other equipment; methods. (b) Frames of offtrack direct current machines; enclosures of related detached components. (c) Stationary high-voltage equipment powered by underground delta systems. (d) Repairs of high-voltage lines; exceptions. (e) Deenergizing of underground power circuits on idle days; exceptions. 868. Underground high-voltage distribution. (a) Circuits entering underground areas of mines; circuit breakers. (b) Circuits extending underground and supplying equipment; direct neutral grounds; ground conductors for frames, exceptions; location of disconnection devices, exceptions. (c) Grounding resistors. (d) Inclusion of fail safe ground check circuits in resistance grounded systems; operative functions; time extension. (e) Underground cables used in resistance grounded systems; metallic shields for power conductors; standards; splices. (f) Couplers for power circuits; guidelines for construction. (g) Connections of single-phase loads. (h) Installation of underground transmission cables. (i) Disconnection devices; location; visual observation of position of switch. (j) Circuit breakers and disconnection devices; markings. (k) Splices in cables used as trailing cables; terminations and splices in other cables. (l) Grounding of frames of underground equipment. (m) Moving of power centers, transformers, and cables; deenergizing; exceptions; safety guidelines; record of examinations. 869. Underground low- and medium-voltage alternating current circuits. (a) Circuits providing power for three-phase equipment; circuit breakers. (b) Circuits used underground; direct neutral grounds; ground conductors for frames; exceptions; grounding resistors. (c) Inclusion of fail safe ground check circuits in resistance ground systems; operative functions; time extension; couplers for power circuits; guidelines for construction. (d) Disconnecting devices installed in conjunction with circuit breakers; purpose; trailing cables for mobile equipment; guidelines for construction; time extension; splices. (e) Connections of single phase loads. (f) Circuit breakers; markings. (g) Trailing cables for medium voltage circuits; guidelines for construction. 870. Trolley wires and trolley feeder wires. (a) Intervals for cutoff switches. (b) Overcurrent protection devices. (c) Location of wires. (d) Adequate insulation and guard devices; promulgation of safety guidelines. 871. Fire protection. (a) Firefighting equipment; promulgation of minimum requirements for equipment; existing requirements; examinations after blasting. (b) Underground storage areas for lubricating oils and greases; construction; exceptions. (c) Housing of underground structures, stations, shops, and pumps; construction; ventilation. (d) Use of arc or flame in underground mines; fireproof enclosures; operations outside fireproof enclosures; procedures; standards. (e) Installation of fire suppression devices on unattended underground equipment; flame-resistant hydraulic fluids. (f) Deluge-type water sprays at main and secondary drives. (g) Installation of slippage and sequence switches on belt conveyors; fire suppression devices on belt haulageways. (h) Flame-resistant conveyor belt. 872. Maps. (a) Fireproof repository; contents; certification. (b) Availability for inspection; confidential copies. (c) Notification of mine closures; filing of revised and supplemental map; certification. 873. Blasting and explosives. (a) Limitations on storage and use of black powder and mudcaps. (b) Storage of explosives and detonators; mudcaps in anthracite mines; restrictions; tests. (c) Permissible explosives, detonators, and devices; firing; stem boreholes; nonpermissible explosives; compressed air blasting. (d) Container construction for carrying explosives or detonators in underground mines. (e) Transportation of explosives or detonators in underground mines. (f) Storage of explosives and detonators in working sections of underground mines; containers; locations. (g) Location of explosive and detonator containers in working places of underground mines. 874. Hoisting and mantrips. (a) Transporting of persons; required equipment and capabilities; safety catches; daily examinations; operators. (b) Promulgation of other safeguards. (c) Rated capacities; indicator for position of cage. (d) Methods for signaling between shaft stations and hoist rooms. (e) Braking equipment for haulage cars used in underground mines. (f) Automatic couplers for haulage equipment. 875. Emergency shelters; construction; contents; implementation plans. 876. Communication facilities; locations. 877. General safety provisions. (a) Location of oil and gas wells; establishment and maintenance of barriers; minimum requisites; exceptions. (b) Boreholes in advance of work face; distance in advance of work face; distance between boreholes. (c) Prohibition against smoking; implementation programs. (d) Portable electric lamps; exceptions. (e) Promulgation of lighting standards. (f) Escapeways; ventilation; maintenance; tests of passageways; protection of entrance; connection between mine openings. (g) Erection of fireproof structures; prior existing structures; fire doors; monthly tests; records; availability. (h) Prevention of accumulations of coal dust and methane gas; surface coal-handling facilities; air-intake openings. (i) Training programs. (j) Electric face equipment; installation of canopies. (k) Mine entrances; sealing; prevention of entry by unauthorized personnel. (l) Facilities for changing and storing clothes; toilet and bathing facilities. (m) Emergency medical assistance preparations; locations for medical equipment; filing of implementation plans. (n) Self-rescue device; training of personnel. (o) Methods of eliminating oxygen deficiencies. (p) Identification check system; records. (q) Installation of devices to prevent and suppress ignition on electric cutting face equipment. (r) Tunnelling under water; permits; contents; necessity; safety zones; restrictions. (s) Drinking water. (t) Standards for prevention of explosions from nonmethane gases and for testing for accumulations. 878. Definitions. SUBCHAPTER IV - BLACK LUNG BENEFITS PART A - GENERAL PROVISIONS 901. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose; short title. 902. Definitions. 903. Field offices. 904. Repealed. PART B - CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS FILED ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 1973 921. Regulations and presumptions. (a) Promulgation; payment of benefits. (b) Promulgation of standards determining total disability. (c) Presumptions. (d) Applicability of presumptions. 922. Payment of benefits. (a) Schedules. (b) Reduction of benefits. (c) Reporting of income. 923. Filing of notice of claim. (a) Promulgation of regulations; time requirement. (b) Utilization of personnel and procedures; evidence required to establish claim; medical evidence; affidavits; autopsy reports; reimbursement of expenses. (c) Filing of claim for workmen's compensation; necessity; exceptions. (d) Employment termination and benefits entitlement. 924. Time for filing claims. (a) Claims filed before December 31, 1973. (b) Filing of claims after June 30, 1973. (c) Effective date of claims. (d) Reduction of State benefits. (e) Conditions upon payment. 924a. Repealed. 925. Procedure for the determination of claims during transition period. PART C - CLAIMS FOR BENEFITS AFTER DECEMBER 31, 1973 931. Benefits under State workmen's compensation laws. (a) Filing. (b) Adequacy of compensation; listing of States providing adequate compensation; requisites for listing. (c) Publication in the Federal Register; review of listings. 932. Failure to meet workmen's compensation requirements. (a) Benefits; applicability of Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act; promulgation of regulations. (b) Liability of operators. (c) Persons entitled to benefits. (d) Monthly payments; amounts; accrual of interest. (e) Conditions upon payment. (f) Limitation on filing of claims. (g) Reduction of monthly benefits. (h) Promulgation of regulations. (i) Subsequent operators' liability for benefit payments. (j) Failure of operators to secure benefits. (k) Secretary as party in claim proceedings. (l) Filing of new claims or refiling or revalidation of claims of miners already determined eligible at time of death. 932a. Appointment of qualified individuals to hear and determine claims for benefits. 933. Duties of operators in States not qualifying under workmen's compensation laws. (a) Securing of benefits for miners; self-insurers; mutual companies. (b) Required provisions of insurance contracts. (c) Cancellation of insurance contracts. (d) Penalties for failure to secure payment of benefits. 934. "Fund" defined; liability of operators to United States for repayments to fund; procedures applicable; rate of interest. 934a. Repealed. 935. Utilization of services of State and local agencies. 936. Regulations and reports. (a) Promulgation; applicability of section 553 of title 5. (b) Annual reports to Congress. (c) Compliance with State workmen's compensation laws; conflicts between State and Federal provisions. 937. Contracts and grants. (a) Construction, purchase, and operation of fixed-site and mobile clinical facilities. (b) Research activities. (c) Authorization of appropriations. 938. Miners suffering from pneumoconiosis; discrimination prohibited. (a) Mine operators. (b) Determination by Secretary; procedure. (c) Costs and penalties. 939. Authorization of appropriations. 940. Applicability of amendments to part B of this subchapter to this part. 941. Penalty for false statements or representations. 942. Miner benefit entitlement reports; penalty for failure or refusal to file. 943. Black lung insurance program. (a) Authorization to establish and carry out. (b) Non-availability of other insurance coverage. (c) Agreements with coal mine operators; reinsurance agreements. (d) Terms and conditions of insurability. (e) Premium schedule studies and investigations. (f) Regulations relating to premium rates. (g) Black Lung Compensation Insurance Fund. (h) Omitted. (i) Authorization of appropriations. 944. Statement of reasons for denial of claim. 945. Repealed. SUBCHAPTER V - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 951. Studies and research. (a) Appropriate projects. (b) Responsibility for carrying out prescribed activities. (c) Contracting with and grants to public and private agencies; availability of information; exceptions. (d) Prevention of diseases affecting persons working with mine products. (e) Authorization of appropriations. (f) Exceptions to mandatory health and safety standards for improving techniques and equipment. (g) Grants for research and development of respiratory equipment. 951a. Health, Safety, and Mining Technology Research Program. (a) Health, Safety, and Mining Technology Research Plan. (b) Technical amendment. 952. Training and education. (a) Programs for operators, agents, and miners. (b) Technical assistance to operators. (c) National Mine Health and Safety Academy. 953. Assistance to States. (a) Development and enforcement of health and safety regulations; improvement of workmen's compensation and occupational disease laws; promotion of Federal-State coordination in mine safety. (b) Application for grants; contents. (c) Approval by Secretary; notice and hearing. (d) Review by Court of Appeals; conclusiveness of findings of Secretary; filing of petition. (e) Programs to train State inspectors. (f) Cooperation in implementation of programs; exchange of reports between States. (g) Limitation on grants. (h) Authorization of appropriations. 954. Appointment of administrative personnel and inspectors; qualifications; training programs. 955. State laws. 956. Applicability of administrative procedure provisions. 957. Promulgation of regulations. 958. Annual reports to Congress; contents. 959. Study of coordination of Federal and State activities; report. 960. Limitation on issuance of temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction. 961. Functions transferred under 1977 amendments. (a) Transfer of functions to Secretary of Labor. (b) Existing mandatory standards; review by advisory committee; recommendations. (c) Unexpended appropriations; personnel; property; records; obligations; commitments; savings provisions; pending proceedings and suits. (d) "Function" defined. (e) Determinations by Director of Office of Management and Budget. 962. Acceptance of contributions and prosecution of projects; cooperative programs to promote health and safety education and training; use of funds for costs of mine rescue and survival operations. -SECREF- CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This chapter is referred to in sections 961, 1211, 1266, 1292 of this title; title 29 section 557a; title 31 section 1105. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 801 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH -HEAD- Sec. 801. Congressional findings and declaration of purpose -STATUTE- Congress declares that - (a) the first priority and concern of all in the coal or other mining industry must be the health and safety of its most precious resource - the miner; (b) deaths and serious injuries from unsafe and unhealthful conditions and practices in the coal or other mines cause grief and suffering to the miners and to their families; (c) there is an urgent need to provide more effective means and measures for improving the working conditions and practices in the Nation's coal or other mines in order to prevent death and serious physical harm, and in order to prevent occupational diseases originating in such mines; (d) the existence of unsafe and unhealthful conditions and practices in the Nation's coal or other mines is a serious impediment to the future growth of the coal or other mining industry and cannot be tolerated; (e) the operators of such mines with the assistance of the miners have the primary responsibility to prevent the existence of such conditions and practices in such mines; (f) the disruption of production and the loss of income to operators and miners as a result of coal or other mine accidents or occupationally caused diseases unduly impedes and burdens commerce; and (g) it is the purpose of this chapter (1) to establish interim mandatory health and safety standards and to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Labor to develop and promulgate improved mandatory health or safety standards to protect the health and safety of the Nation's coal or other miners; (2) to require that each operator of a coal or other mine and every miner in such mine comply with such standards; (3) to cooperate with, and provide assistance to, the States in the development and enforcement of effective State coal or other mine health and safety programs; and (4) to improve and expand, in cooperation with the States and the coal or other mining industry, research and development and training programs aimed at preventing coal or other mine accidents and occupationally caused diseases in the industry. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 91-173, Sec. 2, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 742; Pub. L. 95-164, title I, Sec. 102(a), Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1290; Pub. L. 96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.) -REFTEXT- REFERENCES IN TEXT This chapter, referred to in par. (g), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 91-173, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 742, as amended, known as the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 which was redesignated the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 by Pub. L. 95-164, title I, Sec. 101, Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1290. The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 enacted this chapter, amended sections 633 and 636 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, repealed sections 451 to 460 and 471 to 483 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under this section and section 636 of Title 15. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out below and Tables. -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1977 - Pars. (a) to (d), (f). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(a)(1), inserted "or other" after "coal" wherever appearing. Par. (g). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(a)(1), (2), inserted "or other" after "coal" wherever appearing and substituted "Secretary of Labor" for "Secretary of the Interior". -CHANGE- CHANGE OF NAME "Secretary of Health and Human Services" substituted for "Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare" in par. (g) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education. -MISC2- EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1977 AMENDMENT Section 307 of Pub. L. 95-164 provided that: "Except as otherwise provided, this Act and the amendments made by this Act [see Short Title of 1977 Amendment note below] shall take effect 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 9, 1977]. The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the Interior are authorized to establish such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the efficient transfer of functions provided under this Act. The amendment to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 made by section 202 of this Act [amending section 842(e) of this title and repealing subsec. (k) of section 878 of this title] shall be effective on the date of enactment [Nov. 9, 1977]." EFFECTIVE DATE Section 509 of Pub. L. 91-173 provided that: "Except to the extent an earlier date is specifically provided in this Act [see Short Title note below], the provisions of titles I and III of this Act [subchapters I and III of this chapter] shall become operative ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 30, 1969], and the provisions of title II of this Act [subchapter II of this chapter] shall become operative six months after the date of enactment of this Act. The provisions of the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, as amended [section 451 et seq. of this title], are repealed on the operative date of titles I and III of this Act except that such provisions shall continue to apply to any order, notice, decision, or finding issued under that Act prior to such operative date and to any proceedings related to such order, notice, decision or findings. All other provisions of this Act, shall be effective on the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 30, 1969]." SHORT TITLE OF 2002 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 107-275, Sec. 1, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1925, provided that: "This Act [amending sections 902, 921 to 924, 925, 932a, and 936 of this title, repealing sections 904, 924a, and 945 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 902 and 921 of this title] may be cited as the 'Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility Act'." SHORT TITLE OF 1981 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 97-119, title II, Sec. 201(a), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1643, provided that: "This title [amending sections 901, 902, 921 to 923, 932, and 940 of this title and enacting provisions set out as notes under section 901 of this title] may be cited as the 'Black Lung Benefits Amendments of 1981'." SHORT TITLE OF 1978 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 95-239, Sec. 1, Mar. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 95, provided that: "This Act [enacting sections 903, 904, 924a, and 942 to 945 of this title, amending sections 901, 902, 921 to 924, 931, 932, 933, 937, 940, and 941 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 901, 932a, and 934a of this title, section 4121 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, and section 675 of Title 29, Labor] may be cited as the 'Black Lung Benefits Reform Act of 1977'." SHORT TITLE OF 1977 AMENDMENT Section 1 of Pub. L. 95-164 provided: "That this Act [enacting sections 822 to 825 and 961 of this title and section 557a of Title 29, Labor, amending this section, sections 802 to 804, 811 to 821, 842, 861, 878, 951 to 955, 958, and 959 of this title, and sections 5314 and 5315 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, repealing sections 721 to 740 of this title and section 1456a of Title 43, Public Lands, and enacting provisions set out as notes under this section, section 954 of this title and section 11 of former Title 31, Money and Finance] may be cited as the 'Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977'." SHORT TITLE OF 1972 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 92-303, Sec. 1(a), May 19, 1972, 86 Stat. 150, provided: "That this Act [enacting sections 925 and 937 to 941 of this title, amending sections 901, 902, 921 to 924, 931, 932, 933, 934, and 936 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 921 to 923 of this title] may be cited as the 'Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972'." SHORT TITLE Section 1 of Pub. L. 91-173, as amended by Pub. L. 95-164, title I, Sec. 101, Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1290, provided: "That this Act [which was known as the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 prior to the amendment by Pub. L. 95-164 and which enacted this chapter, amended sections 633 and 636 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, repealed sections 451 to 460 and 471 to 483 of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under this section and section 636 of Title 15] may be cited as the 'Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977'." For short title of subchapter IV of this chapter as the "Black Lung Benefits Act", see section 901(b) of this title. SEPARABILITY Section 510 of Pub. L. 91-173 provided that: "If any provision of this Act [see Short Title note set out above], or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby." -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 802 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH -HEAD- Sec. 802. Definitions -STATUTE- For the purpose of this chapter, the term - (a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Labor or his delegate; (b) "commerce" means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication among the several States, or between a place in a State and any place outside thereof, or within the District of Columbia or a possession of the United States, or between points in the same State but through a point outside thereof; (c) "State" includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (d) "operator" means any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, controls, or supervises a coal or other mine or any independent contractor performing services or construction at such mine; (e) "agent" means any person charged with responsibility for the operation of all or a part of a coal or other mine or the supervision of the miners in a coal or other mine; (f) "person" means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, firm, subsidiary of a corporation, or other organization; (g) "miner" means any individual working in a coal or other mine; (h)(1) "coal or other mine" means (A) an area of land from which minerals are extracted in nonliquid form or, if in liquid form, are extracted with workers underground, (B) private ways and roads appurtenant to such area, and (C) lands, excavations, underground passageways, shafts, slopes, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other property including impoundments, retention dams, and tailings ponds, on the surface or underground, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting such minerals from their natural deposits in nonliquid form, or if in liquid form, with workers underground, or used in, or to be used in, the milling of such minerals, or the work of preparing coal or other minerals, and includes custom coal preparation facilities. In making a determination of what constitutes mineral milling for purposes of this chapter, the Secretary shall give due consideration to the convenience of administration resulting from the delegation to one Assistant Secretary of all authority with respect to the health and safety of miners employed at one physical establishment; (2) For purposes of subchapters II, III, and IV of this chapter, "coal mine" means an area of land and all structures, facilities, machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations, and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land by any person, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting in such area bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite from its natural deposits in the earth by any means or method, and the work of preparing the coal so extracted, and includes custom coal preparation facilities; (i) "work of preparing the coal" means the breaking, crushing, sizing, cleaning, washing, drying, mixing, storing, and loading of bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite, and such other work of preparing such coal as is usually done by the operator of the coal mine; (j) "imminent danger" means the existence of any condition or practice in a coal or other mine which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm before such condition or practice can be abated; (k) "accident" includes a mine explosion, mine ignition, mine fire, or mine inundation, or injury to, or death of, any person; (l) "mandatory health or safety standard" means the interim mandatory health or safety standards established by subchapters II and III of this chapter, and the standards promulgated pursuant to subchapter I of this chapter; (m) "Panel" means the Interim Compliance Panel established by this chapter; and (n) "Administration" means the Mine Safety and Health Administration in the Department of Labor. (o) "Commission" means the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 91-173, Sec. 3, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 743; Pub. L. 95-164, title I, Sec. 102(b), Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1290.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1977 - Par. (a). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(b)(1), substituted "Secretary of Labor" for "Secretary of the Interior". Par. (d). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(b)(2), (4), substituted "supervises a coal or other mine or any independent contractor performing services or construction at such mine" for "supervises a coal mine". Pars. (e), (g). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(b)(4), inserted "or other" after "coal" wherever appearing. Par. (h). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(b)(3), added subpar. (1), designated existing provisions as subpar. (2), and inserted "For purposes of subchapters II, III, and IV of this chapter," after "(2)". Par. (j). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(b)(4), inserted "or other" after "coal". Pars. (n), (o). Pub. L. 95-164, Sec. 102(b)(5), added pars. (n) and (o). EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1977 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 95-164 effective 120 days after Nov. 9, 1977, except as otherwise provided, see section 307 of Pub. L. 95-164, set out as a note under section 801 of this title. -TRANS- TERMINATION OF TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 803 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH -HEAD- Sec. 803. Mines subject to coverage -STATUTE- Each coal or other mine, the products of which enter commerce, or the operations or products of which affect commerce, and each operator of such mine, and every miner in such mine shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter. -SOURCE- (Pub. L. 91-173, Sec. 4, Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 744; Pub. L. 95-164, title I, Sec. 102(c), Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1291.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1977 - Pub. L. 95-164 inserted "or other" after "coal". EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1977 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 95-164 effective 120 days after Nov. 9, 1977, except as otherwise provided, see section 307 of Pub. L. 95-164, set out as a note under section 801 of this title. -End- -CITE- 30 USC Sec. 804 01/06/03 -EXPCITE- TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 22 - MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH -HEAD- Sec. 804. Interim Compliance Panel -STATUTE- (a) Establishment; composition There is hereby established the Interim Compliance Panel, which shall be composed of five members as follows: (1) Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards, Department of Labor, or his delegate; (2) Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce, or his delegate; (3) Administrator of Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, or his delegate; (4) Director of the United States Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, or his delegate; and (5) Director of the National Science Foundation, or his delegate. (b) Compensation; travel and subsistence expenses Members of the Panel shall serve without compensation in addition to that received in their regular employment, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of duties vested in the Panel. (c) Cooperation of Federal agencies Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary shall, upon request of the Panel, provide the Panel such personnel and other assistance as the Panel determines necessary to enable it to carry out its functions under this chapter. (d) Quorum; voting; selection of chairman Three members of the Panel shall constitute a quorum for doing business. All decisions of the Panel shall be by majority vote. The chairman of the Panel shall be selected by the members from among the membership thereof. (e) Appointment of administrative law judges; provisions applicable The Panel is authorized to appoint as many administrative law judges as are necessary for proceedings required to be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The provisions applicable to administrative law judges appointed under section 3105 of title 5 shall be applicable to administrative law judges appointed pursuant to this subsection. (f) Functions; hearings; notice and review; termination; annual report (1) It shall be the function of the Panel to carry out the duties imposed on it pursuant to this chapter and to provide an opportunity for a public hearing, after notice, at the request of an operator of the affected coal mine or the representative of the miners of such mine. Any operator or representative of miners aggrieved by a final decision of the Panel may file a petit