Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60
§90 Selection of Coal Lands by States; Sale in Isolated or Disconnected Tracts
Title 30 › Chapter 3— LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE › Subchapter II— COAL LAND ENTRIES UNDER NONMINERAL LAND LAWS WITH RESERVATION OF COAL TO UNITED STATES › § 90
Summary
States may pick unreserved U.S. public lands (not Alaska) that were set aside or are good for coal under grants from Congress. The Secretary of the Interior can also sell such isolated tracts. The U.S. keeps ownership of the coal and keeps the right to explore, mine, and remove it under sections 83–85, and the lands follow those rules.
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Unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in sections 83 to 85 of this title be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.
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30 U.S.C. § 90
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60