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16 U.S.C. § 508b — National forests in Minnesota; authority to prospect, develop, mine, remove, and utilize mineral resources
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Where, through withdrawal or reservation or by statutory limitation or otherwise, all or any part of the mineral resources in public-domain lands or lands received in exchange for public-domain lands or for timber on such lands situated within the exterior boundaries of the national forests in Minnesota, are not subject to development or utilization under the mining laws of the United States or the mineral leasing laws, and for the development and utilization of which no other statutory authority exists, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, under general regulations to be prescribed by him and upon such terms and for specified periods or otherwise as he may deem to be for the best interests of the United States, to permit the prospecting for and the development and utilization of such mineral resources: Provided, That the development and utilization of such mineral deposits shall not be permitted by the Secretary of the Interior except with the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture. All receipts derived from permits or leases issued under the authority of this section for prospecting for and the development and utilization of such mineral resources shall be paid into the same funds or accounts in the Treasury and shall be distributed in the same manner as prescribed for national forest revenue by sections 499 to 501 of this title.
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Where, through withdrawal or reservation or by statutory limitation or otherwise, all or any part of the mineral resources in public-domain lands or lands received in exchange for public-domain lands or for timber on such lands situated within the exterior boundaries of the national forests in Minnesota, are not subject to development or utilization under the mining laws of the United States or the mineral leasing laws, and for the development and utilization of which no other statutory authority exists, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, under general regulations to be prescribed by him and upon such terms and for specified periods or otherwise as he may deem to be for the best interests of the United States, to permit the prospecting for and the development and utilization of such mineral resources: Provided, That the development and utilization of such mineral deposits shall not be permitted by the Secretary of the Interior except with the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture. All receipts derived from permits or leases issued under the authority of this section for prospecting for and the development and utilization of such mineral resources shall be paid into the same funds or accounts in the Treasury and shall be distributed in the same manner as prescribed for national forest revenue by sections 499 to 501 of this title.
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There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition, in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§§ 506 to 508
provision that lands interchanged under authority of
this section and section 505a of this title be deemed to
include interests in lands.
§§ 506 to 508. Repealed. Pub. L. 87–869, § 4, Oct.
23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157
Section 506, acts June 11, 1906, ch. 3074, § 1, 34 Stat.
233; May 30, 1908, ch. 233, 35 Stat. 554; Aug. 10, 1912, ch.
284, 37 Stat. 287; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946
Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876,
60 Stat. 1100, authorized and directed the Secretary of
Agriculture to classify national forest lands chiefly
valuable for agriculture and which might be occupied
for agricultural purposes without injury to the na-
tional forest and which were not needed for public pur-
poses and to list them with the Secretary of the Inte-
rior for homestead entry and required such Secretary
to declare the agricultural lands open to homestead
entry.
Section 507, act June 11, 1906, ch. 3074, § 2, 34 Stat. 234,
provided for additional homestead right of entry to
former settlers.
Section 508, act June 11, 1906, ch. 3074, § 3, 34 Stat. 234,
provided for entries in Black Hills National Forest sub-
ject to mining laws and to appropriation of waters.
§ 508a. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 152, 44 Stat. 1099, related
to exchange of lands in Black Hills National or Harney
National Forest. See Codification note set out under
sections 486a to 486w of this title.
§ 508b. National forests in Minnesota; authority
to prospect, develop, mine, remove, and uti-
lize mineral resources
Where, through withdrawal or reservation or
by statutory limitation or otherwise, all or any
part of the mineral resources in public-domain
lands or lands received in
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