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30 U.S.C. § 72 — Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation

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Someone who opens and improves a coal mine on public land gets first right to enter that land. This right applies only while they still possess the mine. A qualified association of four or more can enter up to 640 acres if it spends $5,000.

Anyone who is qualified under section 71 — or an association of such people — gets a preference right to enter public land under section 71, if they have opened and improved a coal mine there, or are about to. This preference right applies to the specific mine or mines they opened and improved, as long as they are still actually in possession of it. There's an added rule for associations: if an association of at least four people, each qualified under section 71, has spent at least $5,000 working and improving a coal mine or mines, that association can enter up to 640 acres. This 640-acre limit includes the land where the mining improvements sit.
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Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as provided in section 71 of this title, who have opened and improved, or shall open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands, and shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a preference right of entry, under section 71 of this title, of the mines so opened and improved: Provided, That when any association of not less than four persons, severally qualified as provided in section 71 of this title, shall have expended not less than $5,000 in working and improving any such mine or mines, such association may enter not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, including such mining improvements.

Source credit: (R.S. § 2348.)

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