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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 11 — Mining Claims on Lands Subject to Mineral Leasing Laws

§ 503. Reservations required by law; atomic energy materials

Statutory text

The rights under any mining claim given force and effect by this chapter shall also be subject to the reservation to the United States specified in section 5(b)(7) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, and, in addition, any reservation or reservations required by any other provision or provisions of law; and any patent issued for such mining claim shall contain such reservations.

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. (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, § 3, 67 Stat. 540.) · 67 Stat. 540

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 503

    (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, § 3, 67 Stat. 540.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, § 3, 67 Stat. 540.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 5(b)(7) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, referred to in text, was formerly classified to section 1805(b)(7) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and prohibited any benefit to a person from confidential information acquired from participation in development of atomic energy program respecting deposits of fissionable source materials on public lands. Such provisions are covered in section 68(a), (b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified to section 2098(a), (b) of Title 42.

Credits

(Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, § 3, 67 Stat. 540.)

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