30 U.S.C. § 202 : US Code - Section 202: Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit

Search 30 U.S.C. § 202 : US Code - Section 202: Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit

No company or corporation operating a common-carrier railroad
shall be given or hold a permit or lease under the provisions of
this chapter for any coal deposits except for its own use for
railroad purposes; and such limitations of use shall be expressed
in all permits and leases issued to such companies or corporations;
and no such company or corporation shall receive or hold under
permit or lease more than ten thousand two hundred and forty acres
in the aggregate nor more than one permit or lease for each two
hundred miles of its railroad lines served or to be served from
such coal deposits exclusive of spurs or switches and exclusive of
branch lines built to connect the leased coal with the railroad,
and also exclusive of parts of the railroad operated mainly by
power produced otherwise than by steam.
Nothing in this section and section 201 of this title shall
preclude such a railroad of less than two hundred miles in length
from securing one permit or lease thereunder but no railroad shall
hold a permit or lease for lands in any State in which it does not
operate main or branch lines.