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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 1386 (Introduced in Senate) — To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain land, and for other purposes. · Sec. 504

Sec. 504. Uncommon varieties

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Section 3 of the Act of July 23, 1955 ( 30 U.S.C. 611 ), is amended— by striking and inserting the following: Sec. 3. No deposit No deposit ; in the first sentence— by inserting mineral materials, including after varieties of ; and by striking or cinders and inserting cinders, and clay ; by striking and inserting the following: Common varieties as used in this Act does not In this Act: The term common varieties does not ; by striking and inserting the following: Petrified wood as used in this Act means The term petrified wood means ; and by inserting after subsection
(a)the following: In this subsection, the term valid existing rights means rights to a mining claim located for any mineral material that— had and still has some property giving mineral material the distinct and special value referred to in this section or, as the case may be, met the definition of block pumice referred to in subsection (c)(1); was properly located and maintained under the general mining laws prior to the date of enactment of this subsection; was supported by a discovery of a valuable mineral deposit within the meaning of the general mining laws as in effect immediately prior to the date of enactment of this subsection; and continues to be valid under this Act. Subject to valid existing rights, effective beginning on the date of enactment of this subsection, notwithstanding the references to the term common varieties in this section and to the exception to the term relating to a deposit of materials with some property giving it distinct and special value, all deposits of mineral materials referred to in this section (including the block pumice referred to in subsection (c)(1)) shall be subject to disposal only under the terms and conditions of the Act of July 31, 1947 (commonly known as the Materials Act of 1947 ) ( 30 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). . The first section of the Act of July 31, 1947 (commonly known as the Materials Act of 1947 ) ( 30 U.S.C. 601 ), is amended in the first sentence by striking common varieties of .
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