[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC39]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 39. Surveyors of mining claims
The Director of the Bureau of Land Management may appoint in each
land district containing mineral lands as many competent surveyors as
shall apply for appointment to survey mining claims. The expenses of the
survey of vein or lode claims, and the survey and subdivision of placer
claims into smaller quantities than one hundred and sixty acres,
together with the cost of publication of notices, shall be paid by the
applicants, and they shall be at liberty to obtain the same at the most
reasonable rates, and they shall also be at liberty to employ any United
States deputy surveyor to make the survey. The Director of the Bureau of
Land Management shall also have power to establish the maximum charges
for surveys a
