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§ 523. —  Uranium leases.

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[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC523]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
       CHAPTER 12--MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS
 
Sec. 523. Uranium leases


(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.

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, Sec. 3, 68 S

	 
	 




























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