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[CITE: 16USC482j]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 482j. Santa Fe National Forest; mining rights; protection 
        of scenic values
        
    On and after June 10, 1949, mining locations made under mining laws 
of the United States within the following-described lands within the 
Santa Fe National Forest, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sections 1, 2, 3, the 
northeast quarter of section 11 and the north half of section 12, in 
surveyed township 17 north, range 10 east; sections 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 
36, and that portion of section 25, outside the boundaries of the 
Gabaldon Grant in surveyed township 18 north, range 10 east; three 
thousand eight hundred and forty acres, more or less, in unsurveyed 
township 18 north, range 11 east, expected to be legally described, when 
surveyed, as sections 7, 8, 18, 19, and 30, the northeast quarter of 
section 17, the west half of section 17 and the west half of section 20, 
township 18 north, range 11 east, New Mexico principal meridian, shall 
confer on the locator the right to occupy and use so much of the surface 
of the land covered by the location as may be reasonably necessary to 
carry on prospecting, mining, and beneficiation of ores including the 
taking of mineral deposits and timber required by or in the mining and 
ore reducing operations, and no permit shall be required or charge made 
for such use or occupancy: Provided, however, That the cutting and 
removal of timber, except where clearing is necessary in connection with 
mining operations or to provide space for buildings or structures used 
in connection with mining operations, shall be conducted in accordance 
with the rules for timber cutting on adjoining national-forest land, and 
no use of the surface of the claim or the resources therefrom not 
reasonably required for carrying on mining and prospecting shall be 
allowed except under the national-forest rules and regulations, nor 
shall the locator prevent or obstruct other occupancy of the surface or 
use of surface resources under authority of national-forest regulations, 
or permits issued thereunder, if such occupancy or use is not in 
conflict with mineral development.

(June 10, 1949, ch. 190, Sec. 1, 63 Stat. 168.)

                       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 482l of this title.
