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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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[CITE: 30USC121]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
CHAPTER 3--LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, 
                   SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
 
  SUBCHAPTER V--AGRICULTURAL ENTRY OF LANDS WITHDRAWN OR CLASSIFIED AS 
  CONTAINING PHOSPHATE, NITRATE, POTASH, OIL, GAS, ASPHALTIC MINERALS, 
                           SODIUM, OR SULPHUR
 
Sec. 121. Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or 
        classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or 
        gas; reservations to United States; application
        
    Lands withdrawn or classified as phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, 
gas, or asphaltic minerals, or which are valuable for those deposits, 
shall be subject to appropriation, location, selection, entry, or 
purchase, if otherwise available, under the nonmineral land laws of the 
United States, whenever such location, selection, entry, or purchase 
shall be made with a view of obtaining or passing title with a 
reservation to the United States of the deposits on account of which the 
lands were withdrawn or classified or reported as valuable, together 
with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. All 
applications to locate, select, enter, or purchase under this section 
shall state that the same are made in accordance with and subject to the 
provisions and reservations of sections 121 to 123 of this title.

(July 17, 1914, ch. 142, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 509; June 16, 1955, ch. 145, 
Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 138.)


                               Amendments

    1955--Act June 16, 1955, removed 160-acre limitation on desert 
entry.


                      Additional Desert-Land Entry

    Increase of limitation with respect to desert entries to 320 acres, 
see note set out under section 83 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 122, 124, 125 of this title.
