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[CITE: 30USC1024]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
    CHAPTER 23--GEOTHERMAL STEAM AND ASSOCIATED GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
 
Sec. 1024. Disposal of land laws; reservation of geothermal 
        resources and restriction on disposal of lands with geothermal 
        resources; conveyances prior to December 24, 1970, unaffected
        
    As to any land subject to geothermal leasing under section 1002 of 
this title, all laws which either (a) provide for the disposal of land 
by patent or other form of conveyance or by grant or by operation of law 
subject to a reservation of any mineral or (b) prevent or restrict the 
disposal of such land because of the mineral character of the land, 
shall hereafter be deemed to embrace geothermal steam and associated 
geothermal resources as a substance which either must be reserved or 
must prevent or restrict the disposal of such land, as the case may be. 
This section shall not be construed to affect grants, patents, or other 
forms of conveyances made prior to December 24, 1970.

(Pub. L. 91-581, Sec. 25, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1573.)
