Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60
§206 Noncontiguous Coal or Phosphate Tracts in Single Lease
Title 30 › Chapter 3A— LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter II— COAL › § 206
Summary
If leasable coal or phosphate totaling 2,560 acres are not all next to each other, the Secretary may lease separated tracts as one unit if they can be run as a single mine and it benefits the public and the lessee.
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Title 30, §206
Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Where coal or phosphate lands aggregating two thousand five hundred and sixty acres and subject to lease hereunder do not exist as contiguous areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, if, in his opinion the interests of the public and of the lessee will be thereby subserved, to embrace in a single lease noncontiguous tracts which can be operated as a single mine or unit.
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30 U.S.C. § 206
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60