-CITE-
    30 USC CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE
           SAME TRACTS                                     01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
       CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS   

-MISC1-
    Sec.                                                     
    521.        Mineral leasing claims.                               
    522.        Conflicting periods of location of claims.            
    523.        Uranium leases.                                       
    524.        Reservation of minerals to United States.             
    525.        Future location of claims on mineral lands.           
    526.        Mining and Leasing Act operations.                    
    527.        Determination of unpatented mining claims.            
    528.        Waiver and relinquishment of mineral rights.          
    529.        Helium lands subject to entry.                        
    530.        Definitions.                                          
    531.        Approval of United States officials.                  

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    30 USC Sec. 521                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 521. Mineral leasing claims

-STATUTE-
    (a) Preference categories
      Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to
    any valid intervening rights acquired under the laws of the United
    States, any mining claim located under the mining laws of the
    United States subsequent to July 31, 1939, and prior to February
    10, 1954, on lands of the United States, which at the time of
    location were - 
        (1) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral
      leasing laws; or
        (2) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease
      which had been filed under the mineral leasing laws; or
        (3) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition
      under the mineral leasing laws,

    shall be effective to the same extent in all respects as if such
    lands at the time of location, and at all times thereafter, had not
    been so included or covered or known: Provided, however, That, in
    order to be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, the owner of
    any such mining claim located prior to January 1, 1953, must have
    posted and filed for record, within the time allowed by the
    provisions of chapter 11 of this title, an amended notice of
    location as to such mining claim, stating that such notice was
    filed pursuant to the provisions of said chapter 11 and for the
    purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof: And provided further,
    That in order to obtain the benefits of this chapter, the owner of
    any such mining claim located subsequent to December 31, 1952, and
    prior to February 10, 1954, not later than one hundred and twenty
    days after August 13, 1954, must post on such claim in the manner
    required for posting notice of location of mining claims and file
    for record in the office where the notice or certificate of
    location of such claim is of record an amended notice of location
    for such claim, stating that such notice is filed pursuant to the
    provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of obtaining the
    benefits thereof and, within said one hundred and twenty day
    period, if such owner shall have filed a uranium lease application
    as to the tract covered by such mining claim, must file with the
    Atomic Energy Commission a withdrawal of such uranium lease
    application or, if a uranium lease shall have issued pursuant
    thereto, a release of such lease, and must record a notice of the
    filing of such withdrawal or release in the county office wherein
    such notice or certificate of location shall have been filed for
    record.
    (b) Labor and improvements
      Labor performed or improvements made after the original location
    of and upon or for the benefit of any mining claim which shall be
    entitled to the benefits of this chapter under the provisions of
    subsection (a) of this section, shall be recognized as applicable
    to such mining claim for all purposes to the same extent as if the
    validity of such mining claim were in no respect dependent upon the
    provisions of this chapter.
    (c) Withdrawal or reservation of lands
      As to any land covered by any mining claim which is entitled to
    the benefits of this chapter under the provisions of subsection (a)
    of this section, any withdrawal or reservation of lands made after
    the original location of such mining claim is hereby modified and
    amended so that the effect thereof upon such mining claim shall be
    the same as if such mining claim had been located upon lands of the
    United States which, subsequent to July 31, 1939, and prior to the
    date of such withdrawal or reservation, were subject to location
    under the mining laws of the United States.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 708.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The mining laws of the United States, referred to in subsecs. (a)
    and (c), are classified generally to this title.
      For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in subsec.
    (a)(1) to (3), see section 530 of this title.


-MISC1-
                                SHORT TITLE                            
      Act Aug. 13, 1954, which enacted this chapter, amended section
    1805 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and enacted
    provisions formerly set out as a note under section 1805 of Title
    42, is popularly known as the Multiple Mineral Development Act.


-TRANS-
                           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 Functions notes set out under those
    sections.


-MISC2-
                               SEPARABILITY                           
      Section 13 of act Aug. 13, 1954, provided that: "If any provision
    of this Act [enacting this chapter], or the application of such
    provision to any person or circumstances, is held unconstitutional,
    invalid, or unenforcible [sic], the remainder of this Act or the
    application of such provision to persons or circumstances other
    than those as to which it is held unconstitutional, invalid, or
    unenforcible [sic], shall not be affected thereby."

-End-



-CITE-
    30 USC Sec. 522                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 522. Conflicting periods of location of claims

-STATUTE-
      (a) If any mining claim which shall have been located subsequent
    to December 31, 1952, and prior to December 11, 1953, and which
    shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter, shall cover any
    lands embraced within any mining claim which shall have been
    located prior to January 1, 1953, and which shall be entitled to
    the benefits of this chapter, then as to such area of conflict said
    mining claim so located subsequent to December 31, 1952, shall be
    deemed to have been located December 11, 1953.
      (b) If any mining claim hereafter located shall cover any lands
    embraced within any mining claim which shall have been located
    prior to February 10, 1954, and which shall be entitled to the
    benefits of this chapter, then as to such area of conflict said
    mining claim hereafter located shall be deemed to have been located
    one hundred and twenty-one days after August 13, 1954.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 2, 68 Stat. 709.)

-End-



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    30 USC Sec. 523                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 523. Uranium leases

-STATUTE-
    (a) Right to locate mining claims
      Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to
    any valid prior rights acquired under the laws of the United
    States, the owner of any pending uranium lease application or of
    any uranium lease shall have, for a period of one hundred and
    twenty days after August 13, 1954, as limited in subsection (b) of
    this section, the right to locate mining claims upon the lands
    covered by said application or lease.
    (b) Priorities and conflicting rights; termination of rights
      Any rights under any such mining claim so hereafter located
    pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall
    be subject to any rights of the owner of any mining claim which was
    located prior to February 10, 1954, and which was valid on August
    13, 1954 or which may acquire validity under the provisions of this
    chapter. As to any lands covered by a uranium lease and also by a
    pending uranium lease application, the right of mining location
    under this section, as between the owner of said lease and the
    owner of said application, shall be deemed as to such conflict area
    to be vested in the owner of said lease. As to any lands embraced
    in more than one such pending uranium lease application, such right
    of mining location, as between the owners of such conflicting
    applications, shall be deemed to be vested in the owner of the
    prior application. Priority of such an application shall be
    determined by the time of posting on a tract then available for
    such leasing of a notice of lease application in accordance with
    paragraph (c) of the Atomic Energy Commission's Domestic Uranium
    Program Circular 7 (10 C.F.R. 60.7 (c)) provided there shall have
    been timely compliance with the other provisions of said paragraph
    (c) or, if there shall not have been such timely compliance, then
    by the time of the filing of the uranium lease application with the
    Atomic Energy Commission. Any rights under any mining claim located
    under the provisions of this section shall terminate at the
    expiration of thirty days after the filing for record of the notice
    or certificate of location of such mining claim unless, within said
    thirty-day period, the owner of the uranium lease application or
    uranium lease upon which the location of such mining claim was
    predicated shall have filed with the Atomic Energy Commission a
    withdrawal of said application or a release of said lease and shall
    have recorded a notice of the filing of such withdrawal or release
    in the county office wherein such notice or certificate of location
    shall be of record.
    (c) Future claims on lands covered by application or lease
      Except as otherwise provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this
    section, no mining claim hereafter located shall be valid as to any
    lands which at the time of such location were covered by a uranium
    lease application or a uranium lease. Any tract upon which a notice
    of lease application has been posted in accordance with said
    paragraph (c) of said Circular 7 shall be deemed to have been
    included in a uranium lease application from and after the time of
    the posting of such notice of lease application: Provided, That
    there shall have been timely compliance with the other provisions
    of said paragraph (c) or, if there shall not have been such timely
    compliance, then from and after the time of the filing of a uranium
    lease application with the Atomic Energy Commission.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 3, 68 Stat. 709.)


-TRANS-
                           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 Functions notes set out under those
    sections.

-End-



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    30 USC Sec. 524                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 524. Reservation of minerals to United States

-STATUTE-
      Every mining claim or millsite - 
        (1) heretofore located under the mining laws of the United
      States which shall be entitled to benefits under sections 521 to
      523 of this title; or
        (2) located under the mining laws of the United States after
      August 13, 1954 shall be subject, prior to issuance of a patent
      therefor, to a reservation to the United States of all Leasing
      Act minerals and of the right (as limited in section 526 of this
      title) of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and
      licensees to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim or
      millsite and to prospect for, drill for, mine, treat, store,
      transport, and remove Leasing Act minerals and to use so much of
      the surface and subsurface of such mining claim or millsite as
      may be necessary for such purposes, and whenever reasonably
      necessary, for the purpose of prospecting for, drilling for,
      mining, treating, storing, transporting, and removing Leasing Act
      minerals on and from other lands; and any patent issued for any
      such mining claim or millsite shall contain such reservation as
      to, but only as to, such lands covered thereby which at the time
      of the issuance of such patent were - 
          (a) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral
        leasing laws; or
          (b) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease
        filed under the mineral leasing laws; or
          (c) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition
        under the mineral leasing laws.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 4, 68 Stat. 710.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are
    classified generally to this title.
      For definitions of "Leasing Act minerals" and "mineral leasing
    laws", referred to in par. (2), see section 530 of this title.

-End-



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    30 USC Sec. 525                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 525. Future location of claims on mineral lands

-STATUTE-
      Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter, mining
    claims and millsites may hereafter be located under the mining laws
    of the United States on lands of the United States which at the
    time of location are - 
        (a) included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral
      leasing laws; or
        (b) covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease
      filed under the mineral leasing laws; or
        (c) known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition
      under the mineral leasing laws;

    to the same extent in all respects as if such lands were not so
    included or covered or known.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 5, 68 Stat. 710.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are
    classified generally to this title.
      For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in cls. (a)
    to (c), see section 530 of this title.

-End-



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    30 USC Sec. 526                                             01/03/2007

-EXPCITE-
    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 526. Mining and Leasing Act operations

-STATUTE-
    (a) Multiple use
      Where the same lands are being utilized for mining operations and
    Leasing Act operations, each of such operations shall be conducted,
    so far as reasonably practicable, in a manner compatible with such
    multiple use.
    (b) Mining operations to avoid damage to mineral deposits and
      interference with mineral operations
      Any mining operations pursuant to rights under any unpatented or
    patented mining claim or millsite which shall be subject to a
    reservation to the United States of Leasing Act minerals as
    provided in this chapter, shall be conducted, so far as reasonably
    practicable, in a manner which will avoid damage to any known
    deposit of any Leasing Act mineral. Subject to the provisions of
    subsection (d) of this section, mining operations shall be so
    conducted as not to endanger or materially interfere with any
    existing surface or underground improvements, workings, or
    facilities which may have been made for the purpose of Leasing Act
    operations, or with the utilization of such improvements, workings,
    or facilities.
    (c) Leasing Act operations to avoid damage to mineral deposits and
      interference with mining operations
      Any Leasing Act operations on lands covered by an unpatented or
    patented mining claim or millsite which shall be subject to a
    reservation to the United States of Leasing Act minerals as
    provided in this chapter shall be conducted, so far as reasonably
    practicable, in a manner which will avoid damage to any known
    deposit of any mineral not so reserved from such mining claim or
    millsite. Subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this
    section, Leasing Act operations shall be so conducted as not to
    endanger or materially interfere with any existing surface or
    underground improvements, workings, or facilities which may have
    been made for the purpose of mining operations, or with the
    utilization of such improvements, workings, or facilities.
    (d) Damage or interference permitted by court
      If, upon petition of either the mining operator or the Leasing
    Act operator, any court of competent jurisdiction shall find that a
    particular use in connection with one of such operations cannot be
    reasonably and properly conducted without endangering or materially
    interfering with the then existing improvements, workings, or
    facilities of the other of such operations or with the utilization
    thereof, and shall find that under the conditions and
    circumstances, as they then appear, the injury or damage which
    would result from denial of such particular use would outweigh the
    injury or damage which would result to such then existing
    improvements, workings, or facilities or from interference with the
    utilization thereof if that particular use were allowed, then and
    in such event such court may permit such use upon payment (or upon
    furnishing of security determined by the court to be adequate to
    secure payment) to the party or parties who would be thus injured
    or damaged, of an amount to be fixed by the court as constituting
    fair compensation for the then reasonably contemplated injury or
    damage which would result to such then existing improvements,
    workings, or facilities or from interference with the utilization
    thereof by reason of the allowance of such particular use.
    (e) Information regarding operations to be furnished on request
      Where the same lands are being utilized for mining operations and
    Leasing Act operations, then upon request of the party conducting
    either of said operations, the party conducting the other of said
    operations shall furnish to and at the expense of such requesting
    party copies of any information which said other party may have, as
    to the situs of any improvements, workings, or facilities
    theretofore made upon such lands, and upon like request, shall
    permit such requesting party, at the risk of such requesting party,
    to have access at reasonable times to any such improvements,
    workings, or facilities for the purpose of surveying and checking
    or determining the situs thereof. If damage to or material
    interference with a party's improvements, workings, facilities, or
    with the utilization thereof shall result from such party's
    failure, after request, to so furnish to the requesting party such
    information or from denial of such access, such failure or denial
    shall relieve the requesting party of any liability for the damage
    or interference resulting by reason of such failure or denial.
    Failure of a party to furnish requested information or access shall
    not impose upon such party any liability to the requesting party
    other than for such costs of court and attorney's fees as may be
    allowed to the requesting party in enforcing by court action the
    obligations of this section as to the furnishing of information and
    access. The obligation hereunder of any party to furnish requested
    information shall be limited to map and survey information then
    available to such party with respect to the situs of improvements,
    workings, and facilities and the furnishing thereof shall not be
    deemed to constitute any representation as to the accuracy of such
    information.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 6, 68 Stat. 710.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      For definitions of "Leasing Act operations", referred to in
    subsecs. (a) to (c) and (e); "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in
    subsecs. (b) and (c); and "Leasing Act operator", referred to in
    subsec. (d), see section 530 of this title.

-End-



-CITE-
    30 USC Sec. 527                                             01/03/2007

-EXPCITE-
    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 527. Determination of unpatented mining claims

-STATUTE-
    (a) Filing of notice
      Any applicant, offeror, permittee, or lessee under the mineral
    leasing laws may file in the office of the Secretary of the
    Interior, or in such office as the Secretary may designate, a
    request for publication of notice of such application, offer,
    permit, or lease, provided expressly, that not less than ninety
    days prior to the filing of such request for publication there
    shall have been filed for record in the county office of record for
    the county in which the lands covered thereby are situate a notice
    of the filing of such application or offer or of the issuance of
    such permit or lease which notice shall set forth the date of such
    filing or issuance, the name and address of the applicant, offeror,
    permittee or lessee and the description of the lands covered by
    such application, offer, permit or lease, showing the section or
    sections of the public land surveys which embrace the lands covered
    by such application, offer, permit, or lease, or if such lands are
    unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably
    embrace such lands when the public lands surveys are extended to
    such lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United
    States mineral monument.
      The filing of such request for publication shall be accompanied
    by a certified copy of such recorded notice and an affidavit or
    affidavits of a person or persons over twenty-one years of age
    setting forth that the affiant or affiants have examined the lands
    involved in a reasonable effort to ascertain whether any person or
    persons were in actual possession of or engaged in the working of
    such lands or any part thereof, and, if no person or persons were
    found to be in actual possession of or engaged in the working of
    said lands or any part thereof on the date of such examination,
    setting forth such fact, or, if any person or persons were so found
    to be in actual possession or engaged in such working on the date
    of such examination, setting forth the name and address of each
    such person, unless affiant shall have been unable through
    reasonable inquiry to obtain information as to the name and address
    of any such person, in which event the affidavit shall set forth
    fully the nature and results of such inquiry.
      The filing of such request for publication shall also be
    accompanied by the certificate of a title or abstract company, or
    of a title abstractor, or of an attorney, based upon such
    company's, abstractor's, or attorney's examination of the
    instruments affecting the lands involved, of record in the public
    records of the county in which said lands are situate as shown by
    the indices of the public records in the county office of record
    for said county, setting forth the name of any person disclosed by
    said instruments to have an interest in said lands under any
    unpatented mining claim heretofore located, together with the
    address of such person if disclosed by such instruments of record.
      Thereupon the Secretary of the Interior, or his designated
    representative, at the expense of the requesting person (who, prior
    to the commencement of publication, must furnish the agreement of
    the publisher to hold such requesting person alone responsible for
    charges of publication), shall cause notice of such application,
    offer, permit, or lease to be published in a newspaper having
    general circulation in the county in which the lands involved are
    situate.
      Such notice shall describe the lands covered by such application,
    offer, permit, or lease, as provided heretofore in the notice to be
    filed in the office of record of the county in which the lands
    covered are situate, and shall notify whomever it may concern that
    if any person claiming or asserting under, or by virtue of, any
    unpatented mining claim heretofore located, any right or interest
    in Leasing Act minerals as to such lands or any part thereof, shall
    fail to file in the office where such request for publication was
    filed (which office shall be specified in such notice) and within
    one hundred fifty days from the date of the first publication of
    such notice (which date shall be specified in such notice), a
    verified statement which shall set forth, as to such unpatented
    mining claim:
        (1) The date of location;
        (2) The book and page of recordation of the notice or
      certificate of location;
        (3) The section or sections of the public land surveys which
      embrace such mining claim; or if such lands are unsurveyed,
      either the section or sections which would probably embrace such
      mining claim when the public land surveys are extended to such
      lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United
      States mineral monument;
        (4) Whether such claimant is a locator or purchaser under such
      location; and
        (5) The name and address of such claimant and names and
      addresses so far as known to the claimant of any other person or
      persons claiming any interest or interests in or under such
      unpatented mining claim;

    such failure shall be conclusively deemed (i) to constitute a
    waiver and relinquishment by such mining claimant of any and all
    right, title, and interest under such mining claim as to, but only
    as to, Leasing Act minerals, and (ii) to constitute a consent by
    such mining claimant that such mining claim and any patent issued
    therefor, shall be subject to the reservation specified in section
    524 of this title, and (iii) to preclude thereafter any assertion
    by such mining claimant of any right or title to or interest in any
    Leasing Act mineral by reason of such mining claim.
      If such notice is published in a daily paper, it shall be
    published in the Wednesday issue for nine consecutive weeks, or, if
    in a weekly paper, in nine consecutive issues, or, if in a
    semiweekly or triweekly paper, in the issue of the same day of each
    week for nine consecutive weeks.
      Within fifteen days after the date of first publication of such
    notice, the person requesting such publication (1) shall cause a
    copy of such notice to be personally delivered to or to be mailed
    by registered mail or by certified mail addressed to each person in
    possession or engaged in the working of the land whose name and
    address is shown by an affidavit filed as aforesaid, and to each
    person who may have filed, as to any lands described in said
    notice, a request for notices, as provided in subsection (d) of
    this section, and shall cause a copy of such notice to be mailed by
    registered mail or by certified mail to each person whose name and
    address is set forth in the title or abstract company's or title
    abstractor's or attorney's certificate filed as aforesaid, as
    having an interest in the lands described in said notice under any
    unpatented mining claim heretofore located, such notice to be
    directed to such person's address as set forth in such certificate;
    and (2) shall file in the office where said request for publication
    was filed an affidavit showing that copies have been so delivered
    or mailed.
    (b) Failure to file verified statement
      If any claimant under any unpatented mining claim heretofore
    located which embraces any of the lands described in any notice
    published in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of
    this section shall fail to file a verified statement, as above
    provided, within one hundred and fifty days from the date of the
    first publication of such notice, such failure shall be
    conclusively deemed, except as otherwise provided in subsection (e)
    of this section, (i) to constitute a waiver and relinquishment by
    such mining claimant of any and all right, title, and interest
    under such mining claim as to, but only as to, Leasing Act
    minerals, and (ii) to constitute a consent by such mining claimant
    that such mining claim and any patent issued therefor, shall be
    subject to the reservation specified in section 524 of this title,
    and (iii) to preclude thereafter any assertion by such mining
    claimant of any right or title to or interest in any Leasing Act
    mineral by reason of such mining claim.
    (c) Hearings
      If any verified statement shall be filed by a mining claimant as
    provided in subsection (a) of this section, then the Secretary of
    the Interior or his designated representative shall fix a time and
    place for a hearing to determine the validity and effectiveness of
    the mining claimant's asserted right or interest in Leasing Act
    minerals, which place of hearing shall be in the county where the
    lands in question or parts thereof are located, unless the mining
    claimant agrees otherwise. The procedures with respect to notice of
    such a hearing and the conduct thereof, and in respect to appeals
    shall follow the then established general procedures and rules of
    practice of the Department of the Interior in respect to contests
    or protests affecting public lands of the United States. If,
    pursuant to such a hearing the final decision rendered in the
    matter shall affirm the validity and effectiveness of any mining
    claimant's right or interest under the mining claim as to Leasing
    Act minerals, then no subsequent proceedings under this section
    shall have any force or effect upon the so-affirmed right or
    interest of such mining claimant under such mining claim. If at any
    time prior to a hearing the person requesting publication of notice
    and any person filing a verified statement pursuant to such notice
    shall so stipulate, then to the extent so stipulated, but only to
    such extent, no hearing shall be held with respect to rights
    asserted under that verified statement, and to the extent defined
    by the stipulation the rights asserted under that verified
    statement shall be deemed to be unaffected by that particular
    published notice.
    (d) Request for copy of notice
      Any person claiming any right in Leasing Act minerals under or by
    virtue of any unpatented mining claim heretofore located and
    desiring to receive a copy of any notice of any application, offer,
    permit, or lease which may be published as above provided in
    subsection (a) of this section, and which may affect lands embraced
    in such mining claim, may cause to be filed for record in the
    county office of record where the notice or certificate of location
    of such mining claim shall have been recorded, a duly acknowledged
    request for a copy of any such notice. Such request for copies
    shall set forth the name and address of the person requesting
    copies and shall also set forth, as to each mining claim under
    which such person asserts rights in Leasing Act minerals:
        (1) the date of location;
        (2) the book and page of the recordation of the notice or
      certificate of location; and
        (3) the section or sections of the public land surveys which
      embrace such mining claim; or if such lands are unsurveyed,
      either the section or sections which would probably embrace such
      mining claim when the public land surveys are extended to such
      lands or a tie by courses and distances to an approved United
      States mineral monument.

    Other than in respect to the requirements of subsection (a) of this
    section as to personal delivery or mailing of copies of notices and
    in respect to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, no
    such request for copies of published notices and no statement or
    allegation in such request and no recordation thereof shall affect
    title to any mining claim or to any land or be deemed to constitute
    constructive notice to any person that the person requesting copies
    has, or claims, any right, title, or interest in or under any
    mining claim referred to in such request.
    (e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice
      If any applicant, offeror, permittee, or lessee shall fail to
    comply with the requirements of subsection (a) of this section as
    to the personal delivery or mailing of a copy of notice to any
    person, the publication of such notice shall be deemed wholly
    ineffectual as to that person or as to the rights asserted by that
    person and the failure of that person to file a verified statement,
    as provided in such notice, shall in no manner affect, diminish,
    prejudice or bar any rights of that person.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 7, 68 Stat. 711; Pub. L. 86-507, Sec.
    1(25), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 201.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      For definitions of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in first
    undesignated par. of subsec. (a), and "Leasing Act minerals",
    referred to in fifth undesignated par. of subsec. (a) and subsecs.
    (b) to (d), see section 530 of this title.


-MISC1-
                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1960 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86-507 inserted "or by certified
    mail" after "registered mail" in two places in last paragraph.

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    30 USC Sec. 528                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
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-HEAD-
    Sec. 528. Waiver and relinquishment of mineral rights

-STATUTE-
      The owner or owners of any mining claim heretofore located may,
    at any time prior to issuance of patent therefor, waive and
    relinquish all rights thereunder to Leasing Act minerals. The
    execution and acknowledgment of such a waiver and relinquishment by
    such owner or owners and the recordation thereof in the office
    where the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim is
    of record shall render such mining claim thereafter subject to the
    reservation referred to in section 524 of this title and any patent
    issued therefor shall contain such a reservation, but no such
    waiver or relinquishment shall be deemed in any manner to
    constitute any concession as to the date of priority of rights
    under said mining claim or as to the validity thereof.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 8, 68 Stat. 715.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      For definition of "Leasing Act minerals", referred to in text,
    see section 530 of this title.

-End-



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    30 USC Sec. 529                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
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-HEAD-
    Sec. 529. Helium lands subject to entry

-STATUTE-
      Lands withdrawn from the public domain which are within (a)
    Helium Reserve Numbered 1, pursuant to Executive orders of March
    21, 1924, and January 28, 1926, and (b) Helium Reserve Numbered 2
    pursuant to Executive Order 6184 of June 26, 1933, shall be subject
    to entry and location under the mining laws of the United States,
    and to permit and lease under the mineral leasing laws, upon
    determination by the Secretary of the Interior, based upon
    available geologic and other information, that there is no
    reasonable probability that operations pursuant to entry or
    location of the particular lands under the mining laws, or pursuant
    to a permit or lease of the particular lands under the Mineral
    Leasing Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], will result in the extraction
    or cause loss or waste of the helium-bearing gas in the lands of
    such reserves: Provided, That the lands shall not become subject to
    entry, location, permit or lease until such time as the Secretary
    designates in an order published in the Federal Register: And
    provided further, That the Secretary may at any time as a condition
    to continued mineral operations require the entryman, locator,
    permittee or lessee to take such measures either above or below the
    surface of the lands as the Secretary deems necessary to prevent
    loss or waste of the helium-bearing gas.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 9, 68 Stat. 715.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are
    classified generally to this title.
      For definition of "mineral leasing laws", referred to in text,
    see section 530 of this title.
      The Mineral Leasing Act, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25,
    1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, which is classified
    generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181 et seq.) of this title. For
    complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
    note set out under section 181 of this title and Tables.

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    30 USC Sec. 530                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 530. Definitions

-STATUTE-
      As used in this chapter "mineral leasing laws" shall mean 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 February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) [30 U.S.C. 281 et seq.];
    Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 [30 U.S.C. 1001 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 party who shall conduct Leasing Act operations; "mining
    operator" shall mean any party who shall conduct mining operations;
    "Atomic Energy Act" shall mean the Act of August 1, 1946 (60 Stat.
    755), as amended [42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.]; "Atomic Energy
    Commission" shall mean the United States Atomic Energy Commission
    established under the Atomic Energy Act or any amendments thereof;
    "fissionable source material" shall mean uranium, thorium, and all
    other materials referred to in section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy
    Act, as amended, as reserved or to be reserved to the United
    States; "uranium lease application" shall mean an application for a
    uranium lease filed with said Commission with respect to lands
    which would be open for entry under the mining laws except for
    their being lands embraced within an offer, application, permit, or
    lease under the mineral leasing laws or lands known to be valuable
    for minerals leasable under those laws; "uranium lease" shall mean
    a uranium mining lease issued by said Commission with respect to
    any such lands; and "person" shall mean any individual,
    corporation, partnership, or other legal entity.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 11, 68 Stat. 716; Pub. L. 91-581,
    Sec. 26, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1573; Pub. L. 109-58, title II,
    Sec. 236(24), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 673.)

-REFTEXT-
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      Act of February 25, 1920, referred to in text, is act Feb. 25,
    1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, known as the Mineral
    Leasing Act, which is classified generally to chapter 3A (Sec. 181
    et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to
    the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of this
    title and Tables.
      Act of April 17, 1926, referred to in text, is act Apr. 17, 1926,
    ch. 158, 44 Stat. 301, as amended, which is classified generally to
    subchapter VIII (Sec. 271 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title. For
    complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
      Act of February 7, 1927, referred to in text, is act Feb. 7,
    1927, ch. 66, 44 Stat. 1057, as amended, which enacted subchapter
    IX (Sec. 281 et seq.) of chapter 3A of this title, amended sections
    181 and 193 of this title, and repealed subchapter VII (Sec. 141 et
    seq.) of chapter 3 of this title. For complete classification of
    this Act to the Code, see Tables.
      The Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, referred to in text, is Pub. L.
    91-581, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1566, which is classified
    principally to chapter 23 (Sec. 1001 et seq.) of this title. For
    complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
    note set out under section 1001 of this title and Tables.
      The effective date of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, referred
    to in text, probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 91-581,
    which was approved Dec. 24, 1970.
      The Atomic Energy Act, referred to in text, is a reference to the
    Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, 60 Stat.
    755), prior to its complete amendment and revision by act Aug. 30,
    1954, ch. 1073, 68 Stat. 919, which is classified principally to
    chapter 23 (Sec. 2011 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and
    Welfare. For further details, see Codification note set out under
    sections 1801 to 1819 of Title 42 and Short Title note set out
    under section 2011 of Title 42. For complete classification of this
    Act to the Code, see Tables.
      Section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, referred to
    in text, was formerly classified to section 1805(b)(1) of Title 42
    and defined "source material". The term is defined in section 11(z)
    of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified
    to section 2014(z) of Title 42.


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                                AMENDMENTS                            
      2005 - Pub. L. 109-58 amended directory language of Pub. L. 91-
    581, Sec. 26. See 1970 Amendment note below.
      1970 - Pub. L. 91-581, Sec. 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 include "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".


-TRANS-
                           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 Functions notes set out under those
    sections.

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    30 USC Sec. 531                                             01/03/2007

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    TITLE 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
    CHAPTER 12 - MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS

-HEAD-
    Sec. 531. Approval of United States officials

-STATUTE-
      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 required.

-SOURCE-
    (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 12, 68 Stat. 717.)

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