30 U.S.C. § 541b : US Code - Section 541B: Mining, removal, and disposal of lignite

Search 30 U.S.C. § 541b : US Code - Section 541B: Mining, removal, and disposal of lignite

Subject to the provisos of section 541a of this title, any mining
location made under the mining laws of the United States, including
chapter 12 of this title, on lands of the character described in
section 541 of this title, except locations made for lands within
the exterior boundaries of a prior coal prospecting permit or
lease, if based upon a discovery of valuable source material in
deposits other than deposits of Leasing Act minerals, shall include
the right to mine, remove, and dispose of lignite containing
valuable source material and lignite necessary to be stripped or
mined in the recovery of source material contained in lignite,
subject to the reporting and payment requirements of section 541 of
this title, and subject to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954 [42 U.S.C. 2011 et. seq.], and upon filing in the land
office designated in section 541 of this title, an adequate
description of his claim or claims containing such lignite:
Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to limit
or restrict the rights acquired by virtue of a mining claim
heretofore or hereafter located, under the 1872 Mining Act, as
amended, or to impose any additional obligation with respect to the
mining and removal of source material which does not occur within
any seam, bed, or deposit of lignite.