30 U.S.C. § 261 — Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

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The Secretary of the Interior can issue prospecting permits for certain sodium minerals on federal land. A permit gives the exclusive right to search for these minerals for up to two years. Each permit can cover no more than 2,560 acres in a compact shape.

The Secretary of the Interior may, under rules the Secretary sets, grant a qualified applicant a prospecting permit for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium on federal land. The permit gives the holder the exclusive right to prospect for those minerals for up to two years. The land covered by one permit cannot exceed 2,560 acres, and it must be laid out in a reasonably compact shape.

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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form.

Source credit: (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 23, 41 Stat. 447; Dec. 11, 1928, ch. 19, 45 Stat. 1019.)

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1920Enacted · Act of Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85 · 41 Stat. 447
1928Amended · Act of Dec. 11, 1928, ch. 19 · 45 Stat. 1019

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