Sec. 404.
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None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended to accept or process applications for a patent for any mining or mill site claim located under the general mining laws. Subsection
(a)shall not apply if the Secretary of the Interior determines that, for the claim concerned
(1)a patent application was filed with the Secretary on or before September 30, 1994; and
(2)all requirements established under sections 2325 and 2326 of the Revised Statutes ( 30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein or lode claims, sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the Revised Statutes ( 30 U.S.C. 35 , 36, and 37) for placer claims, and section 2337 of the Revised Statutes ( 30 U.S.C. 42 ) for mill site claims, as the case may be, were fully complied with by the applicant by that date. On September 30, 2020, the Secretary of the Interior shall file with the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report on actions taken by the Department under the plan submitted pursuant to section 314(c) of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 ( Public Law 104–208 ). In order to process patent applications in a timely and responsible manner, upon the request of a patent applicant, the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the applicant to fund a qualified third-party contractor to be selected by the Director of the Bureau of Land Management to conduct a mineral examination of the mining claims or mill sites contained in a patent application as set forth in subsection (b). The Bureau of Land Management shall have the sole responsibility to choose and pay the third-party contractor in accordance with the standard procedures employed by the Bureau of Land Management in the retention of third-party contractors.
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- Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant’s agent for execution of application and affidavits§ 29
- Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land§ 35
- Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment§ 42
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- Pub. L. 104-208
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