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[CITE: 16USC1903]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 39--MINING ACTIVITY WITHIN NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM AREAS
 
Secs. 1903 to 1906. Omitted


                          Codification

    Section 1903, Pub. L. 94-429, Sec. 4, Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1343, 
provided for a 4-year cessation of certain mining operations within the 
boundaries of Death Valley National Monument, Mount McKinley National 
Park, and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, subject to exceptions.
    Section 1904, Pub. L. 94-429, Sec. 5, Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1343, 
provided for inapplicability of requirements for annual expenditures on 
mining claims to mining operations during the 4-year period under 
section 1903.
    Section 1905, Pub. L. 94-429, Sec. 6, Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1343, 
provided that within 2 years the Secretary of the Interior determine the 
validity of unpatented mining claims within Glacier Bay National 
Monument, Death Valley and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monuments and 
Mount McKinley National Park, submit to Congress recommendations for 
acquisition of valid claims, and study and submit to Congress 
recommendations for modifications of existing boundaries of the Death 
Valley Monument and the Glacier Bay National Monument.
    Section 1906, Pub. L. 94-429, Sec. 7, Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1343, 
provided that within 4 years the Secretary determine the validity of 
unpatented mining claims within Crater Lake National Park, Coronado 
National Memorial, and Glacier Bay National Monument, and submit to 
Congress recommendations for acquisition of valid claims.
