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Code · U.S. Code · Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING · CHAPTER 2— MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL · § 54

§ 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities

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Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act of Congress to the contrary, any person who on and after June 21, 1949 prospects for, mines, or removes by strip or open pit mining methods, any minerals from any land included in a stock raising or other homestead entry or patent, and who had been liable under such an existing Act only for damages caused thereby to the crops or improvements of the entryman or patentee, shall also be liable for any damage that may be caused to the value of the land for grazing by such prospecting for, mining, or removal of minerals. Nothing in this section shall be considered to impair any vested right in existence on June 21, 1949.
(June 21, 1949, ch. 232, § 5, 63 Stat. 215.)
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§ 54
Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
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ActJune 21, 1949, ch. 232, § 5
Stat.63 Stat. 215
Actact June 17, 1949, ch. 221, § 2
Stat.63 Stat. 201
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