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[CITE: 16USC459d-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459d-3. Reservation of oil, gas, and other minerals

    (a) When acquiring land, waters, or interests therein, the Secretary 
shall permit a reservation by the grantor of all or any part of the oil 
and gas minerals in such land or waters and of other minerals therein 
which can be removed by similar means, with the right of occupation and 
use of so much of the surface of the land or waters as may be required 
for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining or removal of such 
from beneath the surface of these lands and waters and the lands and 
waters adjacent thereto, under such regulations as may be prescribed by 
the Secretary with respect to such mining or removal.
    (b) Any acquisition hereunder shall exclude and shall not diminish 
any right of occupation or use of the surface under grants, leases, or 
easements existing on April 11, 1961, which are reasonably necessary for 
the exploration, development, production, storing, processing, or 
transporting of oil and gas minerals that are removed from outside the 
boundaries of the national seashore and the Secretary may grant 
additional rights of occupation or use of the surface for the purposes 
aforesaid upon the terms and under such regulations as may be prescribed 
by him.

(Pub. L. 87-712, Sec. 4, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 651.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459d-1, 459d-2, 459d-4, 
459d-6, 459d-7 of this title.
