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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73

§90 Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts

Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES › § 90

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

States may choose certain federal public lands for their land grants if the lands are unreserved, not in Alaska, and have been set aside, listed, or are worth coal. The Secretary of the Interior may also sell those lands as isolated or disconnected tracts. The United States keeps the coal itself and the right to look for, mine, and take it under the rules in sections 83 to 85, and those rules and limits apply to the lands.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §90

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in sections 83 to 85 of this title be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said sections, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said sections.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Supplemental ProvisionsAct Apr. 30, 1912, is supplemental to sections 83 to 85 of this title.

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 90

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73