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30 U.S.C. § 271 — Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage
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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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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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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.
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As used in this chapter “mineral leasing laws” shall mean 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.]; Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 [[30 U.S.C. 1001](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section1001&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 13, 1954, are provided in the mineral leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder and all geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources which, upon the effective date of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, are provided in that Act to be disposed of thereunder; “Leasing Act operations” shall mean operations conducted under a lease, permit, or license issued under the mineral leasing laws in or incidental to prospecting for, drilling for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, or removing Leasing Act minerals; “mining operations” shall mean operations under any unpatented or patented mining claim or millsite in or incidental to prospecting for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, or removing minerals other than Leasing Act minerals and any other use under any claim of right or title based upon such mining claim or millsite; “Leasing Act operator” shall mean any pa
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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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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.)
Editorial Notes
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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