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30 U.S.C. § 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
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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
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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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541e&num=0&edition=prelim).
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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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section181&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; the Act of April 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301) [[30 U.S.C. 271](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section271&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; the Act of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) [[30 U.S.C. 281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section281&num=0&edition=prelim) 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2091&num=0&edition=prelim) to be source material.
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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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim): 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.
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Subject to the provisos of [section 541a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541a&num=0&edition=prelim), 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), and subject to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [[42 U.S.C. 2011](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2011&num=0&edition=prelim) et. seq.], and upon filing in the land office designated in [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), 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 o
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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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section81&num=0&edition=prelim) 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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), and subject to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [[42 U.S.C. 2011](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2011&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], upon filing in the land office designated in [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), an adequate description sufficient to identify the land containing such lignite.
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Twenty years after August 11, 1955, all lands subject to the provisions of [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim) 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.
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Page 108
TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 531
et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For
further details, see Codification note set out under sec-
tions 1801 to 1819 of Title 42 and Short Title note set
out under section 2011 of Title 42. For complete classi-
fication of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, as amend-
ed, referred to in text, was formerly classified to sec-
tion 1805(b)(1) of Title 42 and defined ‘‘source material’’.
The term is defined in section 11(z) of the Atomic En-
ergy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified to sec-
tion 2014(z) of Title 42.
AMENDMENTS
2005—Pub. L. 109–58 amended directory language of
Pub. L. 91–581, § 26. See 1970 Amendment note below.
1970—Pub. L. 91–581, § 26, as amended by Pub. L.
109–58, 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 in-
clude ‘‘all geothermal steam and associated geothermal
resources which, upon the effective date of the Geo-
thermal Steam Act of 1970, are provided in that Act to
be disposed of thereunder’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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 Func-
tions notes set out under those sections.
§ 531. Approval of United States officials
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 re-
quired.
(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, § 12, 68 Stat. 717.)
CHAPTER 12A—ENTRY AND
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