Oversight--Federal Coal Leasing Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ... February 16, 1976U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 570 pages |
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Page 567 - ... which his or its output is to be or become the subject, to control the price or prices thereof or of any holding of such lands by any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or control, in excess of the amounts of lands provided in this Act, the lease thereof shall be forfeited by appropriate court proceedings.
Page 25 - Leases shall be for a period of twenty years, with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for successive periods of ten years upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such periods.
Page 392 - Coal mine" means an area of land and all structures, facilities, machinery, tools, equipment, shafts, slopes, tunnels, excavations, and other property, real or personal, placed upon, under, or above the surface of such land by any person, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting in such area bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite from its natural deposits in the earth by any means or method, and the work of preparing the coal so extracted, and includes custom coal preparation...
Page 316 - Specific bodies of mineral-bearing material whose location, quality, and quantity are known from geologic evidence supported by engineering measurements with respect to the demonstrated category. Undiscovered resources — Unspecified bodies of mineral-bearing material surmised to exist on the basis of broad geologic knowledge and theory. Reserve — That portion of the identified resource from which a usable mineral and energy commodity can be economically and legally extracted at the time of determination....
Page 567 - That if any of the lands or deposits leased under the provisions of this act shall be subleased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device permanently, temporarily, directly, indirectly, tacitly, or in any manner whatsoever, so that they form...
Page 47 - ... approximate original contour" means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that the reclaimed area, including any terracing or access roads, closely resembles the general surface configuration of the land prior to mining and blends Into and complements the drainage pattern of the surrounding terrain, with all highwalls and spoil piles eliminated...
Page 553 - 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...
Page 55 - Where practicable, by reason of either commercial or mining conditions, the available coal in the upper beds shall be worked out before the coal in the lower beds is mined; otherwise, the workings in the upper coal bed shall be kept in advance of the workings in each lower bed. The decision as to practicability rests with the mining supervisor.
Page 543 - Act, prospecting permits for a term of two years, for not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres; and if within said period of two years thereafter, the permittee shows to the Secretary that the land contains coal in commercial quantities, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease under this Act for all or part of the land in his permit...
Page 94 - ... (2) have their principal place of residence on the land; or personally conduct farming or ranching operations upon a farm or ranch unit to be affected by surface...