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§ 521. —  Mineral leasing claims.



[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC521]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
       CHAPTER 12--MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS
 
Sec. 521. Mineral leasing claims


(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.

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

                       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.


                               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.

                          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.


                              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.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 524 of this title.



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