30 U.S.C. § 523 : US Code - Section 523: Uranium leases

Search 30 U.S.C. § 523 : US Code - Section 523: Uranium leases

(a) Right to locate mining claims
Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to
any valid prior rights acquired under the laws of the United
States, the owner of any pending uranium lease application or of
any uranium lease shall have, for a period of one hundred and
twenty days after August 13, 1954, as limited in subsection (b) of
this section, the right to locate mining claims upon the lands
covered by said application or lease.
(b) Priorities and conflicting rights; termination of rights
Any rights under any such mining claim so hereafter located
pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall
be subject to any rights of the owner of any mining claim which was
located prior to February 10, 1954, and which was valid on August
13, 1954 or which may acquire validity under the provisions of this
chapter. As to any lands covered by a uranium lease and also by a
pending uranium lease application, the right of mining location
under this section, as between the owner of said lease and the
owner of said application, shall be deemed as to such conflict area
to be vested in the owner of said lease. As to any lands embraced
in more than one such pending uranium lease application, such right
of mining location, as between the owners of such conflicting
applications, shall be deemed to be vested in the owner of the
prior application. Priority of such an application shall be
determined by the time of posting on a tract then available for
such leasing of a notice of lease application in accordance with
paragraph (c) of the Atomic Energy Commission's Domestic Uranium
Program Circular 7 (10 C.F.R. 60.7 (c)) provided there shall have
been timely compliance with the other provisions of said paragraph
(c) or, if there shall not have been such timely compliance, then
by the time of the filing of the uranium lease application with the
Atomic Energy Commission. Any rights under any mining claim located
under the provisions of this section shall terminate at the
expiration of thirty days after the filing for record of the notice
or certificate of location of such mining claim unless, within said
thirty-day period, the owner of the uranium lease application or
uranium lease upon which the location of such mining claim was
predicated shall have filed with the Atomic Energy Commission a
withdrawal of said application or a release of said lease and shall
have recorded a notice of the filing of such withdrawal or release
in the county office wherein such notice or certificate of location
shall be of record.
(c) Future claims on lands covered by application or lease
Except as otherwise provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this
section, no mining claim hereafter located shall be valid as to any
lands which at the time of such location were covered by a uranium
lease application or a uranium lease. Any tract upon which a notice
of lease application has been posted in accordance with said
paragraph (c) of said Circular 7 shall be deemed to have been
included in a uranium lease application from and after the time of
the posting of such notice of lease application: Provided, That
there shall have been timely compliance with the other provisions
of said paragraph (c) or, if there shall not have been such timely
compliance, then from and after the time of the filing of a uranium
lease application with the Atomic Energy Commission.