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[CITE: 16USC252]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XXVII--OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 252. Disposal of mineral rights

    In the areas of said park lying east of the range line between 
ranges 9 and 10 and north of the seventh standard parallel, and east of 
the range line between ranges 4 and 5 west, Willamette meridian, all 
mineral deposits of the classes and kinds now subject to location, 
entry, and patent under the mining laws of the United States shall be, 
exclusive of the land containing them, subject to disposal under such 
laws for a period of five years from June 29, 1938, with rights of 
occupation and use of so much of the surface of the land as may be 
required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining or removal 
of the minerals and under such general regulations as may be prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Interior.

(June 29, 1938, ch. 812, Sec. 2, 52 Stat. 1242.)

                       References in Text

    The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are 
classified generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 251e of this title.
