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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 182. Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc.

Statutory text

The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to all deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas in the lands of the United States, which lands may have been or may be disposed of under laws reserving to the United States such deposits, with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, subject to such conditions as are or may hereafter be provided by such laws reserving such deposits.

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.

  1. National Prohibition Act

    Pub. L. 66–85 § 34 · 41 Stat. 305

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 182

    Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 34, 41 Stat. 450

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 34, 41 Stat. 450

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 34. All records and reports kept or filed under the provisions Authorized inspection of all records, etc. of this Act shall be subject to inspection at any reasonable hour by the commissioner or any of his agents or by any public prosecutor or by any person designated by him, or by any peace officer in the State where the record is kept, and copies of such records and reports duly Copies as evidence. certified by the person with whom kept or filed may be introduced in evidence with like effect as the originals thereof, and verified copies of such records shall be furnished to the commissioner when called for.

  2. Mineral Leasing Act Revision of 1960

    Pub. L. 86–705 § 7(a) · 74 Stat. 781

    Changed · 30 U.S.C. § 182

    Pub. L. 86–705 included native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 86–705 included native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Section 1 of the Act of February 25, 1920, as amended (30 U.S.C. 181), section 21 of said Act (30 U.S.C. 241), and section 34 of said Act 60 Stat. 950; 41 Stat. 445, 450. (30 U.S.C. 182) are amended by the insertion of the words “native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)” immediately after the words “oil shale.” in the first Oil shale. sentence of each section. Section 21 of said Act (30 U.S.C. 241) is further amended by striking out the period at the end of the last sentence and adding these words “except that with respect to leases for native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried) no person, association, or corporation shall acquire or hold more than seven thousand six hundred eighty acres in any one State without respect to the number of leases.”

  3. Pub. L. 97–78 § 1(1) · 95 Stat. 1070

    Substituted · 30 U.S.C. § 182

    Pub. L. 97–78 substituted “gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons),” for “native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 97–78 substituted “gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons),” for “native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) section 1 (30 U.S.C. 181), sections 21 (a) and (c) (30 U.S.C. 241 (a) and (c)), and section 34 (30 U.S.C. 182) of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, are amended by deleting “native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)” and by inserting in lieu thereof “gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons),”, except that in the first sentence of section 21(a) the word “and” should be inserted before “gilsonite” and the comma after the parenthesis should be eliminated in section 21.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments1960–1981 · 2 rounds

1981

Pub. L. 97–78 substituted “gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons),” for “native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)”.

1960

Pub. L. 86–705 included native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock.

Credits

1920–1981 · 3 acts
  1. 1920Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 34, 41 Stat. 450
  2. 1960Pub. L. 86–705, § 7(a), , 74 Stat. 790
  3. 1981Pub. L. 97–78, § 1(1), , 95 Stat. 1070.
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(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 34, 41 Stat. 450; Pub. L. 86–705, § 7(a), , 74 Stat. 790; Pub. L. 97–78, § 1(1), , 95 Stat. 1070.)

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