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[CITE: 30USC704]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
    CHAPTER 20--CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS
 
Sec. 704. Purchase of substitute lands; limitations; conditions; 
        payment; conveyance of less than a fee
        
    (a) If the Secretary of the Interior determines that conveyance of 
an interest under section 701 of this title is otherwise justified but 
the consent required by section 703 of this title is not given, he may, 
in accordance with such procedural rules and regulations as he may 
prescribe, grant the applicant a right to purchase, for residential use, 
an interest in another tract of land, five acres or less in area, from 
tracts made available by him for sale under this chapter (1) from the 
unappropriated and unreserved lands of the United States, or (2) from 
lands subject to classification under section 315f of title 43. Said 
right shall not be granted until arrangements satisfactory to the 
Secretary have been made for termination of the applicant's occupancy of 
his unpatented mining claim and for settlement of any liability for the 
unauthorized use thereof which may have been incurred and shall expire 
five years from the date on which it was granted unless sooner 
exercised. The amount to be paid for the interest shall be determined in 
accordance with section 705 of this title.
    (b) Any conveyance of less than a fee made under this chapter shall 
include provision for removal from the tract of any improvements or 
other property of the applicant at the close of the period for which the 
conveyance is made, or if it be an interest terminating on the death of 
the applicant, within one year thereafter.

(Pub. L. 87-851, Sec. 4, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)
