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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 206. Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease

Statutory text

Where coal or phosphate lands aggregating two thousand five hundred and sixty acres and subject to lease hereunder do not exist as contiguous areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, if, in his opinion the interests of the public and of the lessee will be thereby subserved, to embrace in a single lease noncontiguous tracts which can be operated as a single mine or unit.

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. War Prohibition Act

    Pub. L. 66–85 § 6 · 41 Stat. 305

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 206

    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 6, 41 Stat. 439.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 6, 41 Stat. 439.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. If any section or provision of this Act shall be held to be Invalidity of any section, etc., not to affect other provisions. invalid, it is hereby provided that all other provisions of this Act which are not expressly held to be invalid shall continue in full force and effect.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 6, 41 Stat. 439.)

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