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30 U.S.C. § 541e — Definitions
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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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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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The Commission may determine from time to time that other material is source material in addition to those specified in the definition of source material. Before making such determination, the Commission must find that such material is essential to the production of special nuclear material and must find that the determination that such material is source material is in the interest of the common defense and security, and the President must have expressly assented in writing to the determination. The Commission’s determination, together with the assent of the President, shall be submitted to the Energy Committees and a period of thirty days shall elapse while Congress is in session (in computing such thirty days, there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days) before the determination of the Commission may become effective: Provided, however, That the Energy Committees, after having received such determination, may by resolution in writing waive the conditions of or all or any portion of such thirty-day period.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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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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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 272
ter 3 of this title and subchapter IX of this chap-
ter, nor the mining and sale of potassium com-
pounds as a byproduct from sodium leases taken
under this section: Provided further, That on ap-
plication by any lessee the Secretary of the In-
terior is authorized to modify the rental and
royalty provisions stipulated in any existing so-
dium lease to conform to the provisions of this
section.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 24, 41 Stat. 447; Dec. 11,
1928, ch. 19, 45 Stat. 1019.)
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REFERENCES IN TEXT
Subchapter VII [§ 141 et seq.] of chapter 3 of this title,
referred to in text, was repealed by act Feb. 7, 1927, ch.
66, § 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, which enacted subchapter IX (§ 281
et seq.) of this chapter, amended sections 181 and 193 of
this title, and repealed subchapter VII (§ 141 et seq.) of
chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Tables.
AMENDMENTS
1928—Act Dec. 11, 1928, amended section generally.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SODA ASH ROYALTIES
Pub. L. 113–40, § 10(e), Oct. 2, 2013, 127 Stat. 546, pro-
vided that: ‘‘Notwithstanding section 24 of the Mineral
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 262) and the terms of any lease
under that Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], the royalty rate
on the quantity of gross value of the output of sodium
compounds and related products at the point of ship-
ment to market from Federal land in the 2-year period
beginning on the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 2,
2013] shall be 4 percent.’’
SODA ASH ROYALTY REDUCTION
Pub. L. 109–
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 273
1 See References in Text note below.
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 per-
mittee under the provisions of this section.
(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 2, 44 Stat. 301.)
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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.
§ 273. Lease of lands not covered by permits or
leases; acreage; rental
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 pay-
ment 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 rent-
al paid for any one year to be credited against
the royalties accruing for that year.
(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 3, 44 Stat. 301.)
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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.
§ 274. Lands containing coal or other minerals
Prospecting permits or leases may be issued in
the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior
under th
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 541e
1 See References in Text note below.
§ 541e. Definitions
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 Feb-
ruary 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 min-
erals’’ shall mean all minerals which, upon Au-
gust 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 es-
tablished by the Secretary of the Interior and
prescribed in section 30, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, part 201; and ‘‘source material’’ shall
mean uranium, thorium, or any other material
which is determined by the Atomic Energy Com-
mission pursuant to the provisions of section
2091 of title 42 to be source material.
(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, § 6, 69 Stat. 680.)
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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, § 1,
Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 490. The subject matter of this Act
is generally covered by subchapters I to VII (§ 181 et
seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For complete class
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