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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 13 — Control of Coal-Mine Fires

§ 554. Lands subject to chapter

Statutory text

The acts authorized in section 553 of this title may be performed—

(a)

on lands owned or controlled by the United States or any of its agencies, with the cooperation of the agency having jurisdiction thereof; and

(b)

on any other lands, upon obtaining proper consent or the necessary rights or interests in such lands: Provided, however, That expenditure of Federal funds for this purpose in any privately owned operating coal mine shall be limited to the acts authorized in section 553(a) of this title.

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. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 4, 68 Stat. 1009.) · 68 Stat. 1009

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 554

    (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 4, 68 Stat. 1009.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 4, 68 Stat. 1009.)

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Credits

(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1156, § 4, 68 Stat. 1009.)

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