§ 90. — Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC90]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS,
SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
SUBCHAPTER II--COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH
RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES
Sec. 90. Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or
disconnected tracts
Unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska,
which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable
for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings
described in sections 83 to 85 of this title be subject to selection by
the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under
grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the
Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of
isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a
reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so
selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the
same in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and such lands
shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said sections.
(Apr. 30, 1912, ch. 99, 37 Stat. 105.)
Supplemental Provisions
Act Apr. 30, 1912, is supplemental to sections 83 to 85 of this
title.
