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TITLE 30 — MINERAL LANDS AND MINING>
CHAPTER 3 — LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE>
SUBCHAPTER V — AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, SODIUM, OR SULPHUR> § 121. — Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application.
§ 121. — Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC121]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS,
SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
SUBCHAPTER V--AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS
CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS,
SODIUM, OR SULPHUR
Sec. 121. Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or
classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or
gas; reservations to United States; application
Lands withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil,
gas, or asphaltic minerals, or which are valuable for those deposits,
shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or
purchase, if otherwise available, under the nonmineral land laws of the
United States, whenever such location, selection, entry, or purchase
shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title with a
reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the
lands were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together
with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. All
applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase under this section
shall state that the same are made in accordance with and subject to the
provisions and reservations of sections 121 to 123 of this title.
(July 17, 1914, ch. 142, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 509; June 16, 1955, ch. 145,
Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 138.)
Amendments
1955--Act June 16, 1955, removed 160-acre limitation on desert
entry.
Additional Desert-Land Entry
Increase of limitation with respect to desert entries to 320 acres,
see note set out under section 83 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 122, 124, 125 of this title.
