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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · S. 884 (Reported in Senate) — To amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of Land Management to provide a claimant... · Sec. 1

Sec. 1. Small miner waivers to claim maintenance fees

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Section 10101(d) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ( 30 U.S.C. 28f(d) ) is amended— in paragraph (2)— by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)as clauses
(i)and (ii), respectively, and indenting the clauses appropriately; and by striking
(2)For purposes of and inserting the following: In ; and in the undesignated matter following subparagraph (A)(ii) of paragraph
(2)(as so redesignated), by striking For purposes of and all that follows through the end of the section and inserting the following: For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term control includes— actual control; legal control; and the power to exercise control through or by common directors, officers, stockholders, a voting trust, or a holding company or investment company, or any other means. If a small miner waiver application is determined to be defective for any reason (including the failure to timely file a small miner’s maintenance fee waiver application or an affidavit of annual labor associated with the application and required application fees), the claimant shall have a period of 60 days after receipt of written notification of the 1 or more defects provided by the Bureau of Land Management by registered mail— to cure any such defect; or to pay the $100 claim maintenance fee due for that period. . Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ( 30 U.S.C. 28f ) is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (1), in the second sentence, by striking the Mining Law of 1872 ( and inserting 30 U.S.C. 28 to 28e) sections 2319 through 2344 of the Revised Statutes (commonly known as the ; and Mining Law of 1872 ) ( 30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.) in paragraph (2)— in the first sentence, by striking subsection (a)(1) and inserting paragraph
(1); and in the second sentence, by striking the Mining Law of 1872 ( and inserting 30 U.S.C. 28 to 28e) sections 2319 through 2344 of the Revised Statutes (commonly known as the ; Mining Law of 1872 ) ( 30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.) in subsection (b), in the first sentence, by striking main tenance and inserting maintenance ; and in subsection (d)(1)(B), by striking the Mining Law of 1872 ( and inserting 30 U.S.C. 28–28e ) sections 2319 through 2344 of the Revised Statutes (commonly known as the . Mining Law of 1872 ) ( 30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.) In this subsection: The term covered claimholder means— the claimholder of the claims in the State numbered AA023149, AA023163, AA047913, AA047914, AA047915, AA047916, AA047917, AA047918, and AA047919 (as of December 29, 2004); the claimholder of the claim in the State numbered FF–0593215 (as of December 29, 2004); the claimholder of the claims in the State numbered FS–58607, FS–58608, FS–58609, FS–58610, FS–58611, FS–58613, FS–58615, FS–58616, FS–58617, and FS–58618 (as of December 31, 2003); and the claimholder of the claims in the State numbered FF–53988, FF–53989, and FF–53990 (as of December 31, 1987). The term State means the State of Alaska. Each covered claimholder shall be considered to qualify for relief under section 10101(d)(3) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 ( 30 U.S.C. 28f(d)(3) ), and shall have the opportunity to cure under that section, for any prior period during which, as applicable— 1 or more defects existed in the small miner’s maintenance fee waiver application; an affidavit of annual labor associated with a small miner’s maintenance fee waiver application was not properly filed; or there existed a failure to pay claim maintenance fees. Section 314(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1744(c) ) is amended— by striking
(c)The failure and inserting the following: Except as provided in paragraph (2), the failure ; and by adding at the end the following: If the owner of the mining claim or mill or tunnel site fails to timely file an instrument required under subsection (a)— the Secretary shall provide to the owner by registered mail written notification of the failure to timely file; and the owner shall have a period of 60 days after receipt of the notification described in subparagraph
(A)to file such instrument. .
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