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[CITE: 16USC482o]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 482o. Kaibab National Forest; mining rights; protection of 
        scenic values
        
    On and after July 12, 1951 mining locations made under the mining 
laws of the United States within the following-described lands within 
the Kaibab National Forest, Coconino County, Arizona:
    Sections 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, and 26, township 22 north, range 2 
east;
    Sections 1, 12, and 13, township 28 north, range 2 east;
    Sections 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, and 36, township 29 north, range 2 east;
    Sections 13, 24, 25, and 36, township 30 north, range 2 east;
    Section 18, township 30 north, range 3 east;
    Sections 12 and 13, township 30 north, range 5 east;
    Sections 7, 18, 19, 29, 30, 32, and 33, township 30 north, range 6 
east;
    Sections 3 and 4, township 29 north, range 6 east, Gila and Salt 
River Base and meridian; and also those mining locations made under the 
mining laws of the United States on public domain lands within those 
particular sections of townships 23 north, 24 north, 25 north, 26 north, 
27 north, and 28 north, all in range 2 east, Gila and Salt River Base 
and meridian, through which there extends Arizona State Highway numbered 
64 and a strip of land one thousand feet wide on each side of the center 
line of the right-of-way thereof; 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, or rules and regulations 
issued by the Secretary of the Interior under sections 482o to 482q of 
this title with respect to public domain lands under his jurisdiction, 
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 or rules 
and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, as the case may be, 
nor shall the locator prevent or obstruct other occupancy of the surface 
or use of surface resources under authority of such regulations, or 
permits issued thereunder, if such occupancy or use is not in conflict 
with mineral development.

(July 12, 1951, ch. 222, Sec. 1, 65 Stat. 118.)

                       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 482q of this title.
