16 U.S.C. § 410hh–5 — Withdrawal of lands from mining and mineral leasing

submitted 46 years ago by Pub. L. 96-487 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 77 words · no verdicts yet

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Federal land in park units this Act creates or expands is closed to mining claims, mineral leasing, and other public-land disposal, and to future selection by the State of Alaska or Native Corporations. This is subject to already-valid existing rights and any exceptions stated elsewhere in the Act.

Subject to already-valid existing rights, and except where this Act specifically says otherwise, federal land inside units of the National Park System created or expanded by or under this Act is withdrawn from all forms of entry, claiming, or disposal under the public land laws, including location, entry, and getting a patent under United States mining law, disposal under mineral leasing law, and future selection by the State of Alaska or by Native Corporations.

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Subject to valid existing rights, and except as explicitly provided otherwise in this Act, the Federal lands within units of the National Park System established or expanded by or pursuant to this Act are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation or disposal under the public land laws, including location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws, disposition under the mineral leasing laws, and from future selections by the State of Alaska and Native Corporations.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 96–487, title II, § 206, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2384.)

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1980Enacted · Pub. L. 96-487 · 94 Stat. 2384

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