30 U.S.C. § 274 — Lands containing coal or other minerals

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The Secretary of the Interior may, at their discretion, issue prospecting permits or leases for sulphur deposits on public lands that also contain coal or other minerals. The condition is that those other mineral deposits stay reserved to the United States, to be disposed of under other applicable laws.

The Secretary of the Interior has discretion to issue prospecting permits or leases for sulphur deposits found in public lands, even when those same lands also contain coal or other minerals. This is allowed under the rules of this subchapter. There is one condition: any coal or other mineral deposits on that land must stay reserved to the United States, to be disposed of separately under whatever other laws apply to them.

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Prospecting permits or leases may be issued in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this subchapter for deposits of sulphur in public lands also containing coal or other minerals on condition that such other deposits be reserved to the United States for disposal under applicable laws.

Source credit: (Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 4, 44 Stat. 302.)

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1926Enacted · Act of Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158 · 44 Stat. 302

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