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Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contains | Sections 1 to 2006 |
| Date | 2022 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2023 |
| Positive Law | No |
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Chapter 1 - United States Bureau of Mines
(Section 1 - 16)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1 - United States Bureau of Mines; establishment; director; experts and other employees
- Sec. 1a - Transfer of activities, employees, records, etc., from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to the United States Bureau of Mines
- Sec. 2 - Performance of duties in absence of director
- Sec. 3 - Duties of United States Bureau of Mines
- Sec. 4 - Investigation of lignite coal and peat
- Sec. 4a - Omitted
- Sec. 4b - Cooperation with individuals, municipalities, etc.; contracts with owners; agreements as to prices
- Sec. 4c - Investigation of sub-bituminous and lignite coal
- Sec. 4d - Plants, machinery, and equipment
- Sec. 4e - Omitted
- Secs. 4f to 4o - Transferred
- Sec. 5 - Reports of investigations
- Sec. 6 - Personal interest of director and members of Bureau in mines
- Sec. 7 - Fees for tests or investigations
- Sec. 8 - Additional mining experiment stations and mine safety stations authorized
- Sec. 9 - Acceptance of lands from States
- Sec. 10 - Headquarters of mine rescue cars; site for experimental work; leases and donations
- Sec. 11 - Omitted
- Sec. 12 - Repealed. Oct. 25, 1951, ch. 562, §1(16), 65 Stat. 638
- Sec. 13 - Research laboratory for utilization of anthracite coal; establishment and maintenance
- Sec. 14 - Acquisition of land; cooperation with other agencies
- Sec. 15 - Repealed. Pub. L. 86-533, §1(17), June 29, 1960, 74 Stat. 248
- Sec. 16 - Research laboratory for utilization of anthracite coal; establishment of advisory committee; composition; functions; appointment
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Chapter 2 - Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
(Section 21 - 54)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 21 - Mineral lands reserved
- Sec. 21a - National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
- Sec. 22 - Lands open to purchase by citizens
- Sec. 23 - Length of claims on veins or lodes
- Sec. 24 - Proof of citizenship
- Sec. 25 - Affidavit of citizenship
- Sec. 26 - Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment
- Sec. 27 - Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
- 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
- Sec. 28-1 - Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
- Sec. 28-2 - Definitions
- Sec. 28a - Omitted
- Sec. 28b - Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
- Sec. 28c - Length and termination of deferment
- Sec. 28d - Performance of deferred work
- Sec. 28e - Recordation of deferment
- Sec. 28f - Fee
- Sec. 28g - Location fee
- Sec. 28h - Co-ownership
- Sec. 28i - Failure to pay
- Sec. 28j - Other requirements
- Sec. 28k - Regulations
- Sec. 28l - Collection of mining law administration fees
- 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
- 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
- Sec. 31 - Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
- Sec. 32 - Findings by jury; costs
- Sec. 33 - Existing rights
- Sec. 34 - Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
- 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
- Sec. 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
- 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
- Sec. 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
- Sec. 39 - Surveyors of mining claims
- Sec. 40 - Verification of affidavits
- Sec. 41 - Intersecting or crossing veins
- Sec. 42 - Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
- Sec. 43 - Conditions of sale by local legislature
- Secs. 44, 45 - Omitted
- Sec. 46 - Additional land districts and officers
- Sec. 47 - Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
- Sec. 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
- Sec. 49 - Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
- 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
- Sec. 49b - Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
- Sec. 49c - Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
- Sec. 49d - Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
- Sec. 49e - Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
- Sec. 49f - Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
- Sec. 50 - Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
- 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
- Sec. 52 - Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
- Sec. 53 - Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
- Sec. 54 - Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
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Chapter 3 - Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone
(Section 71 - 172)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Coal Land Entries in General (Section 71 - 77)
- Subchapter II - Coal Land Entries Under Nonmineral Land Laws With Reservation of Coal to United States (Section 81 - 90)
- Subchapter III - Petroleum, Other Mineral Oil, or Gas Land Entries Under Mining Laws (Section 101 - 104)
- Subchapter IV - Homestead Entry of Lands in Utah, Withdrawn or Classified as Oil Lands (Section 111 - 113)
- Subchapter V - Agricultural Entry of Lands Withdrawn or Classified as Containing Phosphate, Nitrate, Potash, Oil, Gas, Asphaltic Minerals, Sodium, or Sulphur (Section 121 - 125)
- Subchapter VI - Location of Phosphate Rock Lands Under Placer-Mining Laws (Section 131 - 131)
- Subchapter VII - Permits to Prospect for Chlorides, Sulphates, Carbonates, Borates, Silicates, or Nitrates of Potassium (Section 141 - 152)
- Subchapter VIII - Building Stone or Saline Land Entries Under Placer-Mining Laws (Section 161 - 162)
- Subchapter IX - Disposal of Alabama Lands as Agricultural Lands (Section 171 - 172)
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Chapter 3A - Leases and Prospecting Permits
(Section 181 - 287)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Provisions (Section 181 - 196)
- Subchapter II - Coal (Section 201 - 209)
- Subchapter III - Phosphates (Section 211 - 214)
- Subchapter IV - Oil and Gas (Section 221 - 237)
- Subchapter V - Oil Shale (Section 241 - 242)
- Subchapter VI - Alaska Oil Proviso (Section 251 - 251)
- Subchapter VII - Sodium (Section 261 - 263)
- Subchapter VIII - Sulphur (Section 271 - 276)
- Subchapter IX - Potash (Section 281 - 287)
- + Chapter 4 - Lease of Gold, Silver, or Quicksilver Deposits When Title Confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims (Section 291 - 293)
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Chapter 5 - Lease of Oil and Gas Deposits in or Under Railroads and Other Rights-of-Way
(Section 301 - 306)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 301 - Authorization for lease of oil and gas deposits; by and to whom leased
- Sec. 302 - Assignment of lease; subletting
- Sec. 303 - Conditions precedent to award of lease; preferred class; bidding
- Sec. 304 - Provisions authorized in lease
- Sec. 305 - Royalties under lease
- Sec. 306 - Rules and regulations
- + Chapter 6 - Synthetic Liquid Fuel Demonstration Plants (Section 321 - 325)
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Chapter 7 - Lease of Mineral Deposits Within Acquired Lands
(Section 351 - 360)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 351 - Definitions
- Sec. 352 - Deposits subject to lease; consent of department heads; lands excluded
- Sec. 353 - Sale of lands unaffected; reservation of mineral rights; sale subject to prior lease; naval petroleum reserves unaffected
- Sec. 354 - Lease of partial or future interests in deposits
- Sec. 355 - Disposition of receipts
- Sec. 356 - Furnishing description of lands and title documents; recordation of documents; authenticated copies
- Sec. 357 - State or local government rights; taxation
- Sec. 358 - Rights under prior leases; priority of pending applications; exchange of leases
- Sec. 359 - Rules and regulations
- Sec. 360 - Authority to manage certain mineral leases
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Chapter 8 - Development of Lignite Coal Resources
(Section 401 - 404)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 401 - Establishment of research laboratory; duties
- Sec. 402 - Acquisition of lands and property; utilization of voluntary services; cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies
- Sec. 403 - Repealed. Pub. L. 93-608, §1(12), Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1969
- Sec. 404 - Establishment of an advisory committee; composition and appointment
- + Chapter 9 - Rare and Precious Metals Experiment Station (Section 411 - 412)
- + Chapter 10 - Coal Mine Safety (Section 451 - 483)
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Chapter 11 - Mining Claims on Lands Subject to Mineral Leasing Laws
(Section 501 - 505)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 501 - Mining claims located between July 31, 1939, and January 1, 1953
- Sec. 502 - Reservation of minerals to the United States; rights of entry, disposition and removal
- Sec. 503 - Reservations required by law; atomic energy materials
- Sec. 504 - Power to make arrangements respecting atomic energy materials as unaffected
- Sec. 505 - "Mineral leasing laws" defined
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Chapter 12 - Multiple Mineral Development of the Same Tracts
(Section 521 - 531)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 521 - Mineral leasing claims
- Sec. 522 - Conflicting periods of location of claims
- Sec. 523 - Uranium leases
- Sec. 524 - Reservation of minerals to United States
- Sec. 525 - Future location of claims on mineral lands
- Sec. 526 - Mining and Leasing Act operations
- Sec. 527 - Determination of unpatented mining claims
- Sec. 528 - Waiver and relinquishment of mineral rights
- Sec. 529 - Helium lands subject to entry
- Sec. 530 - Definitions
- Sec. 531 - Approval of United States officials
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Chapter 12A - Entry and Location on Coal Lands on Discovery of Source Material
(Section 541 - 541i)
- Table of Contents
- 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
- Sec. 541a - Claims located prior to May 25, 1955; extralateral rights; amended notice of mining location
- Sec. 541b - Mining, removal, and disposal of lignite
- Sec. 541c - Lands where coal deposits have been reserved to the United States
- Sec. 541d - Location of source materials by holders of coal leases
- Sec. 541e - Definitions
- Sec. 541f - Disbursement of moneys
- Sec. 541g - Rules and regulations
- Sec. 541h - Savings provision
- Sec. 541i - Withdrawal of lands from entry; expiration of claims
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Chapter 13 - Control of Coal-Mine Fires
(Section 551 - 558)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 551 - Declaration of policy
- Sec. 552 - Definitions
- Sec. 553 - Duties of Secretary; surveys, research, etc.; projects
- Sec. 554 - Lands subject to chapter
- Sec. 555 - Conditions precedent for aid to non-Federal lands
- Sec. 556 - Administration
- Sec. 557 - Rules and regulations
- Sec. 558 - Authorization of appropriations
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Chapter 14 - Anthracite Mine Drainage and Flood Control
(Section 571 - 576)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 571 - Declaration of policy
- Sec. 572 - United States contributions to Pennsylvania: authority, conditions, limitations
- Sec. 573 - Statement by Commonwealth for Secretary
- Sec. 574 - Hearings; withholding payments
- Sec. 575 - Repealed. Pub. L. 105-362, title IX, §901(i)(1), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3290
- Sec. 576 - Authorization of appropriations
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Chapter 15 - Surface Resources
(Section 601 - 615)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Disposal of Materials on Public Lands (Section 601 - 604)
- Subchapter II - Mining Locations (Section 611 - 615)
- + Chapter 16 - Mineral Development of Lands Withdrawn for Power Development (Section 621 - 625)
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Chapter 17 - Exploration Program for Discovery of Minerals
(Section 641 - 646)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 641 - Establishment and maintenance of program for exploration; financial assistance
- Sec. 642 - Exploration contracts
- Sec. 643 - "Exploration" defined
- Sec. 644 - Advice and assistance by Government departments and agencies; expenditure of funds
- Sec. 645 - Repealed. Pub. L. 93-608, §1(13), Jan. 2, 1975, 88 Stat. 1969
- Sec. 646 - Authorization of appropriations
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Chapter 18 - Coal Research and Development
(Section 661 - 668)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 661 - Short title; definitions
- Sec. 662 - Powers and duties of Secretary
- Secs. 663, 664 - Repealed. Pub. L. 109-58, title X, §1009(a)(1)(C), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 934
- Sec. 665 - Sites for conducting research; availability of personnel and facilities
- Sec. 666 - Public-availability requirement; national defense; patent agreements
- Sec. 667 - Repealed. Pub. L. 109-58, title X, §1009(a)(1)(C), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 934
- Sec. 668 - Authorization of appropriations
- + Chapter 19 - Lead and Zinc Stabilization Program (Section 681 - 689)
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Chapter 20 - Conveyances to Occupants of Unpatented Mining Claims
(Section 701 - 709)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 701 - Authorization to convey; acreage limitations; qualified applicants; payment; "qualified officer of the United States" defined
- Sec. 702 - "Qualified applicant" defined
- Sec. 703 - Withdrawal of lands in aid of a governmental unit
- Sec. 704 - Purchase of substitute lands; limitations; conditions; payment; conveyance of less than a fee
- Sec. 705 - Purchase price of conveyed interest; installment payments
- Sec. 706 - Liabilities of occupants; trespass; limitations
- Sec. 707 - Reservation of mineral rights
- Sec. 708 - Assignments; succession
- Sec. 709 - Disposition of payments and fees
- + Chapter 21 - Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety (Section 721 - 740)
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Chapter 22 - Mine Safety and Health
(Section 801 - 966)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 801 - Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
- Sec. 802 - Definitions
- Sec. 803 - Mines subject to coverage
- Sec. 804 - Interim Compliance Panel
- Subchapter I - General (Section 811 - 826)
- Subchapter II - Interim Mandatory Health Standards (Section 841 - 846)
- Subchapter III - Interim Mandatory Safety Standards for Underground Coal Mines (Section 861 - 878)
- Subchapter IV - Black Lung Benefits (Section 901 - 945)
- Subchapter V - Administrative Provisions (Section 951 - 966)
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Chapter 23 - Geothermal Resources
(Section 1001 - 1028)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1001 - Definitions
- Sec. 1002 - Lands subject to geothermal leasing
- Sec. 1002a - Repealed. Pub. L. 97-214, §7(16), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 174
- Sec. 1003 - Leasing procedures
- Sec. 1004 - Rents and royalties
- Sec. 1005 - Lease term and work commitment requirements
- Sec. 1006 - Acreage limitations
- Sec. 1007 - Readjustment of lease terms and conditions
- Sec. 1008 - Byproducts
- Sec. 1009 - Relinquishment of geothermal rights
- Sec. 1010 - Suspension of operations and production
- Sec. 1011 - Termination of leases
- Sec. 1012 - Waiver, suspension, or reduction of rental or royalty
- Sec. 1013 - Surface land use
- Sec. 1014 - Lands subject to geothermal leasing
- Sec. 1015 - Requirement for lessees
- Sec. 1016 - Administration
- Sec. 1017 - Unit and communitization agreements
- Sec. 1018 - Data from Federal agencies
- Sec. 1019 - Disposal of moneys from sales, bonuses, rentals, and royalties
- Sec. 1020 - Publication in Federal Register; reservation of mineral rights
- Sec. 1021 - Federal exemption from State water laws
- Sec. 1022 - Prevention of waste; exclusivity
- Sec. 1023 - Rules and regulations
- Sec. 1024 - Inclusion of geothermal leasing under certain other laws
- Sec. 1025 - Federal reservation of certain mineral rights
- Sec. 1026 - Significant thermal features
- Sec. 1027 - Land subject to prohibition on leasing
- Sec. 1028 - Hot dry rock geothermal energy
- + Chapter 24 - Geothermal Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration (Section 1101 - 1164)
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Chapter 25 - Surface Mining Control and Reclamation
(Section 1201 - 1328)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Statement of Findings and Policy (Section 1201 - 1202)
- Subchapter II - Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (Section 1211 - 1211)
- Subchapter III - State Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institutes (Section 1221 - 1230a)
- Subchapter IV - Abandoned Mine Reclamations (Section 1231 - 1245)
- Subchapter V - Control of the Environmental Impacts of Surface Coal Mining (Section 1251 - 1279)
- Subchapter VI - Designation of Lands Unsuitable for Noncoal Mining (Section 1281 - 1281)
- Subchapter VII - Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions (Section 1291 - 1309b)
- Subchapter VIII - University Coal Research Laboratories (Section 1311 - 1316)
- Subchapter IX - Energy Resource Graduate Fellowships (Section 1321 - 1328)
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Chapter 26 - Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources
(Section 1401 - 1473)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1401 - Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
- Sec. 1402 - International objectives
- Sec. 1403 - Definitions
- Subchapter I - Regulation of Exploration and Commercial Recovery by United States Citizens (Section 1411 - 1428)
- Subchapter II - Transition to International Agreement (Section 1441 - 1444)
- Subchapter III - Enforcement and Miscellaneous Provisions (Section 1461 - 1473)
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Chapter 27 - Geothermal Energy
(Section 1501 - 1542)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1501 - Congressional statement of findings
- Subchapter I - Project Loans (Section 1511 - 1516)
- Subchapter II - Study, Establishment, and Implementation of Insurance Program (Section 1521 - 1522)
- Subchapter III - Establishment of Assistance Program (Section 1531 - 1531)
- Subchapter IV - Federal Facilities (Section 1541 - 1542)
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Chapter 28 - Materials and Minerals Policy, Research, and Development
(Section 1601 - 1607)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1601 - Congressional statement of findings; "materials" defined
- Sec. 1602 - Congressional declaration of policies
- Sec. 1603 - Implementation of policies
- Sec. 1604 - Program administration
- Sec. 1605 - Applicability to other statutory national mining and minerals policies
- Sec. 1606 - Mineral security
- Sec. 1607 - Critical minerals supply chains and reliability
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Chapter 29 - Oil and Gas Royalty Management
(Section 1701 - 1759)
- Table of Contents
- Sec. 1701 - Congressional statement of findings and purposes
- Sec. 1702 - Definitions
- Subchapter I - Federal Royalty Management and Enforcement (Section 1711 - 1727)
- Subchapter II - States and Indian Tribes (Section 1731 - 1736)
- Subchapter III - General Provisions (Section 1751 - 1759)
- + Chapter 30 - National Critical Materials Council (Section 1801 - 1811)
- + Chapter 31 - Marine Mineral Resources Research (Section 1901 - 1905)
- + Chapter 32 - Methane Hydrate Research and Development (Section 2001 - 2006)
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