Mining Activities in the Center and Gallatin National Forests in Montana: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels ... 92-1, August 18, 19711971 - 144 pages |
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Page 17 - The Congress authorizes and directs that, to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this Act...
Page 17 - States shall be subject, prior to issuance of patent therefor, to the right of the United States to manage and dispose of the vegetative surface resources thereof and to manage other surface resources thereof (except mineral deposits subject to location under the mining laws of the United States).
Page 17 - States that it is the policy of Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes...
Page 19 - ... securities of the United States having market value at the time of deposit of not less than the required dollar amount of the bond. A blanket bond covering nationwide or statewide operations may be furnished if the terms and conditions thereof are sufficient to comply with the regulations in this part. (b) In determining the amount of the bond, consideration will be given to the estimated cost of stabilizing, rehabilitating, and reclaiming the area of operations.
Page 88 - Federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.
Page 100 - But strip mining is like taking seven or eight stiff drinks — you are riding high as long as the coal lasts but the hangover comes when the coal is gone, the land is gone and the jobs are gone ; and the bitter truth of the morning after leaves barren landscape and a mouth full of ashes.
Page 19 - Approval of the means of such access as part of a plan of operations shall specify the location of the access route, design standards, means of transportation, and other conditions reasonably necessary...
Page 15 - ... subject to the right of the United States to manage and dispose of the surface resources, both vegetative and mineral, as well as the right of the United States, its permittees, and licensees, to use so much of the surface as may be necessary for such purposes and for access to adjacent land. Such use must not endanger or materially interfere with prospecting, mining, or processing operations or uses reasonably incident thereto.
Page 16 - USC 478. 551), persons entering National Forests for the purpose of prospecting, locating and developing mineral resources must comply with the rules and regulations covering National Forests. Section 4 of the Act of July 23, 1955 (69 Stat. 368, 30 USC 612), provides that mining claims subject to the provisions of that Act are to be used only for prospecting, mining, or processing operations and uses reasonably incident thereto, and that rights under such claims are subject to the right of the United...
Page 16 - Part 18 of Subtitle A of Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations is revised to read as follows: Sec.