30-U.S.C.-121

§121 – Agricultural Entry Or Purchase of Lands Withdrawn Or Classified As Containing Phosphate, Nitrate, Potash, Oil, Or Gas; Reservations to United States; Application

Pathway

Title 30 > Chapter 3 > Subchapter V > Section 121

Details

• Reference: Section 121
• Legend: §121 – Agricultural Entry Or Purchase of Lands Withdrawn Or Classified As Containing Phosphate, Nitrate, Potash, Oil, Or Gas; Reservations to United States; Application
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Lands withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals, or which are valuable for those deposits, shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or purchase, if otherwise available, under the nonmineral land laws of the United States, whenever such location, selection, entry, or purchase shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title with a reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the lands were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. All applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase under this section shall state that the same are made in accordance with and subject to the provisions and reservations of sections 121 to 123 of this title.

(July 17, 1914, ch. 142, §1, 38 Stat. 509; June 16, 1955, ch. 145, §2, 69 Stat. 138.)

Amendments

1955—Act June 16, 1955, removed 160-acre limitation on desert entry.

Additional Desert-Land Entry

Increase of limitation with respect to desert entries to 320 acres, see note set out under section 83 of this title.

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