§604 — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can allow sand, stone, gravel, and plant material that lie below the high‑water mark of navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska to be removed or sold, under the rules in this part of the law. If a contract under these rules for taking such materials from land that will become State property when the Territory becomes a State is not fully carried out, the new State may either cancel the contract or take it over.

Title 30, §604

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Subject to the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretary may dispose of sand, stone, gravel, and vegetative materials located below highwater mark of navigable waters of the Territory of Alaska. Any contract, unexecuted in whole or in part, for the disposal under this subchapter of materials from land, title to which is transferred to a future State upon its admission to the Union, and which is situated within its boundaries, may be terminated or adopted by such State.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of certain

Enforcement

functions of Secretary or other appropriate officer or entity in Departments of Agriculture and the Interior under this subchapter to Federal Inspector of Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see note set out under section 601 of this title. Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by section 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

§604 Disposal of sand, peat moss, etc., in Alaska; contracts