Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources
§ 1420. Conservation of natural resources
Statutory text
For the purpose of conservation of natural resources, each license and permit issued under this subchapter shall contain, as needed, terms, conditions, and restrictions which have due regard for the prevention of waste and the future opportunity for the commercial recovery of the unrecovered balance of the hard mineral resources in the area to which the license or permit applies. In establishing these terms, conditions, and restrictions, the Administrator shall consider the state of the technology, the processing system utilized and the value and potential use of any waste, the environmental effects of the exploration or commercial recovery activities, economic and resource data, and the national need for hard mineral resources. As used in this chapter, the term “conservation of natural resources” is not intended to grant, imply, or create any inference of production controls or price regulation, in particular those which would affect the volume of production, prices, profits, markets, or the decision of which minerals or metals are to be recovered, except as such effects may be incidental to actions taken pursuant to this section.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act
Pub. L. 96–283 title I § 110 · 94 Stat. 553
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1420
(Pub. L. 96–283, title I, § 110, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 570.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–283, title I, § 110, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 570.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 110. CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES. For the purpose of conservation of natural resources, each license and permit issued under this title shall contain, as needed, terms, conditions, and restrictions which have due regard for the prevention of waste and the future opportunity for the commercial recovery of the unrecovered balance of the hard mineral resources in the area to which the license or permit applies. In establishing these terms, conditions, and restrictions, the Administrator shall consider the state of the technology, the processing system utilized and the value and potential use of any waste, the environmental effects of the exploration or commercial recovery activities, economic and resource “Conservation of natural resources.” data, and the national need for hard mineral resources. As used in this Act, the term “conservation of natural resources” is not intended to grant, imply, or create any inference of production controls or price regulation, in particular those which would affect the volume of production, prices, profits, markets, or the decision of which minerals or metals are to be recovered, except as such effects may be incidental to actions taken pursuant to this section.
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