30 U.S.C. § 353 — Sale of lands unaffected; reservation of mineral rights; sale subject to prior lease; naval petroleum reserves unaffected

This section makes clear that a different part of the law it belongs to does not override other existing rules about land sales. (a) It does not amend, modify, or change any existing law that authorizes or requires the sale of land the government has acquired. (b) It does not give any government commission, bureau, or agency the power to hold back the minerals when it sells acquired land. The section adds two further protections. Any sale or transfer of this land must still be handled by the agency that has authority over it, and the sale stays subject to any mineral lease already made on the land. And nothing in the broader chapter this section belongs to is meant to affect, in any way, the naval petroleum reserve provisions found in chapter 869 of title 10.