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16 U.S.C. § 460mm–1 — Administration of conservation area
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**(a) Management and use of land; land use plan** Subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary, through the Bureau of Land Management, shall administer the Steese National Conservation Area established in [section 460mm of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section460mm&num=0&edition=prelim) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 [[43 U.S.C. 1701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] dealing with the management and use of land in Federal ownership, and shall, within five years of Dec. 2, 1980, develop a land use plan for each such area, and for the area established in [section 460mm–2 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section460mm-2&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Transfer of lands; mineral exploration and development** No public lands within the national conservation area shall be transferred out of Federal ownership except by exchange pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act [[43 U.S.C. 1716](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1716&num=0&edition=prelim)]. Where consistent with the land use plans for the area, mineral development may be permitted pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, and supplemented ([30 U.S.C. 181–287](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section181–287&num=0&edition=prelim)) or the Materials Act of 1947, as amended ([30 U.S.C. 601–603](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section601–603&num=0&edition=prelim)). Subject to valid existing rights, the minerals in Federal lands withi
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**(a) Management and use of land; land use plan** Subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary, through the Bureau of Land Management, shall administer the Steese National Conservation Area established in [section 460mm of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section460mm&num=0&edition=prelim) pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 [[43 U.S.C. 1701](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] dealing with the management and use of land in Federal ownership, and shall, within five years of Dec. 2, 1980, develop a land use plan for each such area, and for the area established in [section 460mm–2 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section460mm-2&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Transfer of lands; mineral exploration and development** No public lands within the national conservation area shall be transferred out of Federal ownership except by exchange pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act [[43 U.S.C. 1716](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1716&num=0&edition=prelim)]. Where consistent with the land use plans for the area, mineral development may be permitted pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, and supplemented ([30 U.S.C. 181–287](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section181–287&num=0&edition=prelim)) or the Materials Act of 1947, as amended ([30 U.S.C. 601–603](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section601–603&num=0&edition=prelim)). Subject to valid existing rights, the minerals in Federal lands within national conservation areas are hereby withdrawn from location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws ([30 U.S.C. 22–54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section22–54&num=0&edition=prelim)). Where consistent with the land use plan for the area, the Secretary may classify lands within national conservation areas as suitable for locatable mineral exploration and development and open such lands to entry, location, and patent under the United States mining laws ([30 U.S.C. 22–54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section22–54&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(c) Regulation of mining activities** Subject to valid existing rights, all mining claims located within any such unit shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that mining will, to the maximum extent practicable, be consistent with protection of the scenic, scientific, cultural, and other resources of the area and any patent issued after December 2, 1980, shall convey title only to the minerals together with the right to use the surface of lands for mining purposes subject to such reasonable regulations as the Secretary may prescribe as aforesaid.
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**(a) Authorization and limitations on authority of Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Agriculture** A tract of public land or interests therein may be disposed of by exchange by the Secretary under this Act and a tract of land or interests therein within the National Forest System may be disposed of by exchange by the Secretary of Agriculture under applicable law where the Secretary concerned determines that the public interest will be well served by making that exchange: Provided, That when considering public interest the Secretary concerned shall give full consideration to better Federal land management and the needs of State and local people, including needs for lands for the economy, community expansion, recreation areas, food, fiber, minerals, and fish and wildlife and the Secretary concerned finds that the values and the objectives which Federal lands or interests to be conveyed may serve if retained in Federal ownership are not more than the values of the non-Federal lands or interests and the public objectives they could serve if acquired.
**(b) Implementation requirements; cash equalization waiver** In exercising the exchange authority granted by subsection (a) or by [section 1715(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1715/a&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary concerned may accept title to any non-Federal land or interests therein in exchange for such land, or interests therein which he finds proper for transfer out of Federal ownership and which are located in the same State as the non-Federal land or interest to be acquired. For the purposes of this subsection, unsurveyed school sections which, upon survey by the Secretary, would become State lands, shall be considered as “non-Federal lands”.
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**(a)** The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States that—
(1) the public lands be retained in Federal ownership, unless as a result of the land use planning procedure provided for in this Act, it is determined that disposal of a particular parcel will serve the national interest;
(2) the national interest will be best realized if the public lands and their resources are periodically and systematically inventoried and their present and future use is projected through a land use planning process coordinated with other Federal and State planning efforts;
(3) public lands not previously designated for any specific use and all existing classifications of public lands that were effected by executive action or statute before October 21, 1976, be reviewed in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4) the Congress exercise its constitutional authority to withdraw or otherwise designate or dedicate Federal lands for specified purposes and that Congress delineate the extent to which the Executive may withdraw lands without legislative action;
(5) in administering public land statutes and exercising discretionary authority granted by them, the Secretary be required to establish comprehensive rules and regulations after considering the views of the general public; and to structure adjudication procedures to assure adequate third party participation, objective administrative review of initial decisions, and expeditious decisionmaking;
(6) judicial review of public land adjudication decisions be provided by law;
(7) goals and objectives be established by law as guidelines for public land use planning, and that management be on the basis of multiple use and sustained yield unless otherwise specified by law;
(8) the public lands be managed in a manner t
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**(a) In general** In order to provide for the immediate and future protection of the lands in Federal ownership within the framework of a program of multiple use and sustained yield and for the maintenance of environmental quality, the Steese National Conservation Area is hereby established.
**(b) Boundaries; special values** The Steese National Conservation Area shall include approximately one million two hundred twenty thousand acres of public lands, as generally depicted on the map entitled “Steese National Conservation Area—proposed”, and dated October 1978. Special values to be considered in planning and management of the area are: caribou range and Birch Creek.
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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.
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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 Feder
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 181
Sec.
SUBCHAPTER V—OIL SHALE
241.
Leases of lands.
242.
Oil shale claims.
SUBCHAPTER VI—ALASKA OIL PROVISO
251.
Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands;
terms and conditions; acreage; annual rent-
als and royalties; fraud of claimants.
SUBCHAPTER VII—SODIUM
261.
Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.
262.
Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royal-
ties 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 af-
fected.
282.
Leases to permittees of lands showing valu-
able deposits; royalty.
283.
Lands containing valuable deposits not cov-
ered by permits or leases; authority to
lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemp-
tions 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 potas-
sium leases.
287.
Extension of prospecting permits.
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 181. Lands subject to disposition; persons enti-
tled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; heliu
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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.
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 21
Sec.
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 Min-
nesota; sale and disposal as public lands.
49.
Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as ag-
ricultural lands.
49a.
Mining laws of United States extended to
Alaska; exploration and mining for precious
metals; regulations; conflict of laws; per-
mits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea;
reservation of roadway; title to land below
line of high tide or high-water mark; trans-
fer of title to future State.
49b.
Mining laws relating to placer claims ex-
tended to Alaska.
49c.
Recording notices of location of Alaskan min-
ing 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; per-
jury.
49f.
Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of
work and improvements.
50.
Grants to States or corporations not to in-
clude mineral lands.
51.
Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enu-
meration of uses; protection of interest;
rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liabil-
ity for injury or damage to settlers’ posses-
sion.
52.
Patents or homesteads subject to vested and
accrued water rights.
53.
Possessory actions for recovery of mining ti-
tles or for damages to such title.
54.
Liability for damages to stock raising and
homestead entries by mining activities.
§ 21. Mineral lands reserved
In all cases lands valuable for minerals shall
be reserved from sale, except as otherwise ex-
pressly directed by law.
(R
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 601
Sec.
SUBCHAPTER II—MINING LOCATIONS
611.
Common varieties of sand, stone, gravel,
pumice, pumicite, or cinders, and petrified
wood.
612.
Unpatented mining claims.
613.
Procedure for determining title uncertain-
ties.
614.
Waiver of rights.
615.
Limitation of existing rights.
SUBCHAPTER I—DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS
ON PUBLIC LANDS
§ 601. Rules and regulations governing disposal
of
materials;
payment;
removal
without
charge; lands excluded
The Secretary, under such rules and regula-
tions as he may prescribe, may dispose of min-
eral 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 tim-
ber 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 other-
wise 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 provi-
sions of this subchapter and upon the payment
of adequate compensation therefor, to be deter-
mined 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 agen-
cy, unit or subdivision, including municipalities,
or any association or corp
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1701
Sec.
1782.
Bureau of Land Management Wilderness
Study.
1783.
Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.
1784.
Lands in Alaska; designation as wilderness;
management by Bureau of Land Manage-
ment pending Congressional action.
1785.
Fossil Forest Research Natural Area.
1786.
Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station.
1787.
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural
Area.
SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1701. Congressional declaration of policy
(a) The Congress declares that it is the policy
of the United States that—
(1) the public lands be retained in Federal
ownership, unless as a result of the land use
planning procedure provided for in this Act, it
is determined that disposal of a particular par-
cel will serve the national interest;
(2) the national interest will be best realized
if the public lands and their resources are peri-
odically and systematically inventoried and
their present and future use is projected
through a land use planning process coordi-
nated with other Federal and State planning
efforts;
(3) public lands not previously designated for
any specific use and all existing classifications
of public lands that were effected by executive
action or statute before October 21, 1976, be re-
viewed in accordance with the provisions of
this Act;
(4) the Congress exercise its constitutional
authority to withdraw or otherwise designate
or dedicate Federal lands for specified pur-
poses and that Congress delineate the extent
to which the Executive may withdraw lands
without legislative action;
(5) in administering public land statutes and
exercising discretionary authority granted by
them, the Secretary be required to establish
comprehensive rules and regulations after con-
sidering the v
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