30 U.S.C. § 206 — Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease

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Coal or phosphate leases usually cover up to 2,560 contiguous acres. If matching land isn't all connected, the Secretary of the Interior can still combine separate tracts into one lease. This is allowed if the tracts can be run as a single mine or unit and it serves the public's and the lessee's interests.

Coal or phosphate leases under this law normally cover land totaling 2,560 acres. When land of that size and eligible for leasing doesn't exist as one connected area, the Secretary of the Interior may still combine separate, non-touching tracts into a single lease — if the Secretary believes doing so serves the public interest and the lessee's interest, and if the tracts can be worked as a single mine or unit.

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Where coal or phosphate lands aggregating two thousand five hundred and sixty acres and subject to lease hereunder do not exist as contiguous areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, if, in his opinion the interests of the public and of the lessee will be thereby subserved, to embrace in a single lease noncontiguous tracts which can be operated as a single mine or unit.

Source credit: (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 6, 41 Stat. 439.)

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1920Enacted · Act of Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85 · 41 Stat. 439

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