Mineral Exploration and Development Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mining and Natural Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 918 ... Hearing Held in Denver, CO, April 12, 1991, Del 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 |
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Side 391 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Side 247 - Council for the purposes of the gift; (4) appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service...
Side 56 - You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Side 166 - Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
Side 350 - ... and in the interest of conservation of natural resources, is authorized to waive, suspend, or reduce the rental, or minimum royalty, or reduce the royalty on an entire leasehold, or on any tract or portion thereof segregated for royalty purposes, whenever in his judgment it Is necessary to do so in order to promote development, or whenever In his judgment the leases cannot be successfully operated under the terms provided therein.
Side 289 - After eight years in this office, I have come to the conclusion that the most important piece of unfinished business on the nation's natural resource agenda is the complete replacement of the mining law of 1872.
Side 235 - ... any person having an interest which is, or may be, adversely affected...
Side 246 - ... temporarily withdrawn, reserved, or withheld from private appropriation and disposal under the public land laws, including the mining laws, (d) outstanding interests of the United States in lands patented, conveyed in fee or otherwise, under the public land laws, (e) national forests, (f) wildlife refuges and ranges, and (g) the surface and subsurface resources of all such lands, including the disposition...
Side 68 - Members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to be here today. My name is Kevin Crook and I am an individual mining claim holder and developer.
Side 269 - Unnecessary or undue degradation" means surface disturbance greater than what would normally result when an activity is being accomplished by a prudent operator in usual, customary, and proficient operations of similar character and taking into consideration the effects of operations on other resources and land uses, including those resources and uses outside the area of operations.