30 U.S.C. § 208 : US Code - Section 208: Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit

Search 30 U.S.C. § 208 : US Code - Section 208: Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit

In order to provide for the supply of strictly local domestic
needs for fuel, the Secretary of the Interior may, under such rules
and regulations as he may prescribe in advance, issue limited
licenses or permits to individuals or associations of individuals
to prospect for, mine, and take for their use but not for sale,
coal from the public lands without payment of royalty for the coal
mined or the land occupied, on such conditions not inconsistent
with this chapter as in his opinion will safeguard the public
interests. This privilege shall not extend to any corporations. In
the case of municipal corporations the Secretary of the Interior
may issue such limited license or permit, for not to exceed three
hundred and twenty acres for a municipality of less than one
hundred thousand population, and not to exceed one thousand two
hundred and eighty acres for a municipality of not less than one
hundred thousand and not more than one hundred and fifty thousand
population; and not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty
acres for a municipality of one hundred and fifty thousand
population or more, the land to be selected within the State
wherein the municipal applicant may be located, upon condition that
such municipal corporations will mine the coal therein under proper
conditions and dispose of the same without profit to residents of
such municipality for household use: Provided, That the acquisition
or holding of a lease under sections 181, 201, and 202 to 207 of
this title shall be no bar to the holding of such tract or
operation of such mine under said limited license.