16 U.S.C. § 508b — National forests in Minnesota; authority

Page 954 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 Repealed.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 exchange for public- domain lands or for timber on such lands situ- ated within the exterior boundaries of the na- tional 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 oth- erwise as he may deem to be for the best inter- ests of the United States, to permit the pros- pecting for and the development and utilization of such mineral resources: Provided, That the de- velopment and utilization of such mineral de- posits shall not be permitted by the Secretary of the Interior except with the consent of the Sec- retary of Agriculture. All receipts derived from permits or leases issued under the authority of this section for prospecting for and the develop- ment 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. (June 30, 1950, ch. 430, 64 Stat. 311.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS Functions of Secretary of the Interior under this sec- tion, with respect to use and disposal from lands under jurisdiction of Secretary of Agriculture of those min- eral materials which Secretary of Agriculture is au- thorized to dispose of from other lands under his juris- diction under sections 601 to 604 and 611 to 615 of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining, transferred to Secretary of Agriculture, see Pub. L. 86–509, June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205, set out as a Transfer of Functions note under sec- tion 2201 of Title 7, Agriculture. § 509. Repealed. Pub. L. 87–869, § 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157 Section, act June 11, 1906, ch. 3074, § 5, 34 Stat. 234, re- lated to future settlements on lands within reserves and rights of former bona fide settlers. §§ 510, 510a. Omitted Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section 510, act Aug. 8, 1916, ch. 295, 39 Stat. 440, which applied the provisions of sections 506 to 508 and 509 of this title to lands within the national forests in Lawrence and Pennington Counties in South Dakota, was omitted because of the repeal of sections 506 to 508 and 509 of this title. Section 510a, act June 13, 1930, ch. 481, 46 Stat. 583, prohibiting the acceptance of applications for the clas- sification and listing of lands in the Custer National Forest for homestead entry with provision for the Sec- retary of Agriculture to list, in his discretion, limited tracts when in his opinion such action would be in the public interest and would not be injurious to other set- tlers or users of the national forest, has been omitted in view of the repeal by Pub. L. 87–869, § 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157, of the provision under which such classi- fication and listing were carried out. § 511. Reinstatement of entries canceled or relin- quished All homestead entries which have been can- celed or relinquished, or are invalid solely be- cause of the erroneous allowance of such entries after the withdrawal of lands for national-forest purposes, may be reinstated or allowed to re- main intact, but in the case of entries canceled prior to March 3, 1911, applications for reinstate- ment must have been filed in the proper local land office prior to July 1, 1912. (Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 225, § 1, 36 Stat. 1084.) § 512. Omitted Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section, acts Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1[part], 37 Stat. 842; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, which directed the Secretary of Agriculture to se- lect, classify, and segregate lands within the bound- aries of national forests that might be opened to settle- ment and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the national forests, has been omitted in view of the re- peal of the Forest Reserve Homestead Act ‘‘as amended and supplemented’’ by Pub. L. 87–869, § 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1157, which had provided the basic framework under which reserved public domain lands suitable for farming in the national forests had been made avail- able for homesteading. § 513. Repealed. Pub. L. 94–588, § 17(a)(1), (2), Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2961 Section, acts Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, §§ 4, 5, 36 Stat. 962; Sept. 21, 1950, ch. 966, 64 Stat. 872, provided for creation