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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 7 — Lease of Mineral Deposits Within Acquired Lands

§ 356. Furnishing description of lands and title documents; recordation of documents; authenticated copies

Statutory text

Upon request by the Secretary, the heads of all executive departments, independent establishments, or instrumentalities having jurisdiction over any of the lands referred to in section 351 of this title shall furnish to the Secretary the legal description of all of such lands, and all pertinent abstracts, title papers, and other documents in the possession of such agencies concerning the status of the title of the United States to the mineral deposits that may be found in such lands.

Abstracts, title papers, and other documents furnished to the Secretary under this section shall be recorded promptly in the Bureau of Land Management in such form as the Secretary shall deem adequate for their preservation and use in the administration of this chapter, whereupon the originals shall be returned promptly to the agency from which they were received. Duly authenticated copies of any such abstracts, title papers, or other documents may, however, be furnished to the Secretary, in lieu of the originals, in the discretion of the agency concerned.

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. Pub. L. 80–513 § 7 · 61 Stat. 913

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 356

    (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 7, 61 Stat. 915.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 7, 61 Stat. 915.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. Upon request by the Secretary, the heads of all executive Furnishing of legal descriptions, etc. departments, independent establishments, or instrumentalities having jurisdiction over any of the lands referred to in section 2 of this Act shall furnish to the Secretary the legal description of all of such lands, and all pertinent abstracts, title papers, and other documents in the possession of such agencies concerning the status of the title of the United States to the mineral deposits that may be found in such lands. Abstracts, title papers, and other documents furnished to the Secretary under this section shall be recorded promptly in the Bureau of Land Management in such form as the Secretary shall deem adequate for their preservation and use in the administration of this Act, where upon the originals shall be returned promptly to the agency from which they were received. Duly authenticated copies of any such Authenticated copies. abstracts, title papers, or other documents may, however, be furnished to the Secretary, in lieu of the originals, in the discretion of the agency concerned.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

See note set out under section 1 of this title.

Credits

(Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 7, 61 Stat. 915.)

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