16 U.S.C. § 482f — Patents affecting forest lands

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Since 1939, mining patents for this Bonito River watershed of Lincoln National Forest give miners mineral rights and needed timber. The United States still keeps the surface, and unrelated surface uses need Agriculture Department approval.

Starting June 13, 1939, all patents issued under U.S. mining law affecting land within the watershed of the headwaters of the Bonito River, in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico, convey title to the mineral deposits within the claim. They also give the right to cut and remove enough mature timber to extract and remove those minerals, but only if the timber is removed under the rules for timber cutting on the adjoining national forest land. Even so, each patent reserves to the United States all title to the surface of the land and its products. No use of the surface or its resources beyond what is reasonably required for mining or prospecting is allowed, except under Department of Agriculture rules and regulations.

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On and after June 13, 1939, all patents issued under the United States mining laws affecting lands within the watershed of headwaters of the Bonito River in the Lincoln Forest, in the State of New Mexico, shall convey title to the mineral deposits within the claim, together with the right to cut and remove so much of the mature timber therefrom as may be needed in extracting and removing the mineral deposits, if the timber is removed in accordance with the rules for timber cutting on adjoining national-forest land, but each patent shall reserve to the United States all title in or to the surface of the lands and products thereof, and no use of the surface of the claim or the resources therefrom not reasonably required for carrying on mining or prospecting shall be allowed except under the rules and regulations of the Department of Agriculture.

Source credit: (June 13, 1939, ch. 201, § 2, 53 Stat. 818.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1939Enacted · Act of June 13, 1939, ch. 201 · 53 Stat. 818

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 201 on 1939-06-13.

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