30 U.S.C. § 261
Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage
United States · Title 30 — MINERAL LANDS AND MINING · Status: effective
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- 30 U.S.C. § 261, Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/466888
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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form.
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