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ing projects constructed pursuant to this chapter, and shall give evidence, satisfactory to the

Secretary of the Interior, that it will enforce effective installation, operation, and maintenance

safeguards;

(e) Location and operation of projects

Projects constructed pursuant to this chapter

shall be so located, operated, and maintained as

to provide the maximum conservation of anthracite coal resources or, in those instances where

such work would be in the interest of the public

health or safety, to seal abandoned coal mines

and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, and,

where possible, to avoid creating inequities

among those mines which may be affected by

the waters to be controlled thereby; and

(f) Economic justification for abandoned coal

mine projects

Projects for the sealing of abandoned coal

mines or the filling of voids in abandoned coal

mines shall be determined by the Secretary of

the Interior to be economically justified. The

Secretary shall not find any project to be economically justified unless the potential benefits

are estimated by him to exceed the estimated

cost of the project.

(July 15, 1955, ch. 369, §2, 69 Stat. 353; Pub. L.

87–818, §1(2)–(7), Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 934.)

AMENDMENTS

1962—Pub. L. 87–818, §1(2), authorized the Secretary of

the Interior, in the preamble clause, to seal abandoned

coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines, in

those instances where such work is in the interest of

the public health or safety.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87–818, §1(3), reserved $1,500,000 of

the unexpended balance remaining as of July 31, 1962,

for the control and drainage of water.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87–818, §1(4), prohibited the use of

contributions for the purchase of culm, rock, or spoil

banks.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 87–818, §1(5), struck out ‘‘and’’

after the semicolon.

Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 87–818, §1(6), prescribed that

projects be so located, operated, and maintained as to

seal abandoned coal mines and to fill voids in abandoned coal mines in those instances where such work

would be in the interest of the public health or safety.

Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 87–818, §1(7), added subsec. (f).

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in title 40 App. section 205.

§ 573. Statement by Commonwealth for Secretary

The Commonwealth shall furnish to the Secretary of the Interior a statement with respect

to the project showing work done, the status of

the project, expenditures and amounts obligated, at such times and in such detail as the

Secretary of the Interior shall require for the

purposes of this chapter.

(July 15, 1955, ch. 369, §3, 69 Stat. 353.)

§ 574. Hearings; withholding payments

Whenever the Secretary of the Interior, after

reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing,

finds that there is a failure to expend funds in

accordance with the terms and conditions governing the Federal contribution for such approved projects, he shall notify the Commonwealth that further payments will not be made

to the Commonwealth from appropriations

under this chapter until he is satisfied that

there will no longer be any such failure. Until he

is so satisfied the Secretary of the Interior shall

withhold the payment of any financial contributions to the Commonwealth.

(July 15, 1955, ch. 369, §4, 69 Stat. 353.)

§ 575. Annual reports to Congress by Secretary

The Secretary of the Interior shall render to

Congress on or before the first day of February

of each year for four consecutive years, commencing on or before February 1, 1957, a report

of the progress and accomplishments of the program provided for by this chapter. The Secretary of the Interior shall, on or before the first

day of February of each year after the institution of the program for the sealing of abandoned

coal mines or the filling of voids in abandoned

coal mines, submit a report to Congress of the

actions taken under this chapter.

(July 15, 1955, ch. 369, §5, 69 Stat. 353; Pub. L.

87–818, §1(8), Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 935.)

AMENDMENTS

1962—Pub. L. 87–818 provided for submission of reports

of action taken respecting the sealing of and the filling

of voids in abandoned coal mines.

§ 576. Authorization of appropriations

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated

such amounts as may be necessary to carry out

the provisions of this chapter.

(July 15, 1955, ch. 369, §6, 69 Stat. 353.)

CHAPTER 15—SURFACE RESOURCES

SUBCHAPTER I—DISPOSAL OF MATERIALS ON

PUBLIC LANDS

Sec.

601. Rules and regulations governing disposal of

materials; payment; removal without

charge; lands excluded.

602. Bidding; advertising and other notice; conditions for negotiation of contract.

603. Disposition of moneys from disposal of materials.

604. Disposal of sand, peat moss, etc., in Alaska;

contracts.

SUBCHAPTER II—MINING LOCATIONS

611. Common varieties of sand, stone, gravel,

pumice, pumicite, or cinders, and petrified

wood.

612. Unpatented mining claims.

(a) Prospecting, mining or processing operations.

(b) Reservations in the United States to

use of the surface and surface resources.

(c) Severance or removal of timber.

613. Procedure for determining title uncertainties.

(a) Notice to mining claimants; request;

publication; service.

(b) Failure to file verified statement.

(c) Hearings.

(d) Request for copy of notice.

(e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice.

614. Waiver of rights.

615. Limitation of existing rights.