Treatment of Oil Shale Mining Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on S. 30 ... H.R. 2392 ... July 31, 1989, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 312 pages |
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... VALUABLE PROPERTY RIGHTS FROM AMERICAN CITIZENS WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION . I FIND IT IRONIC THAT THERE WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WAS DOING ALL IT COULD TO GET AMERICA'S LAND INTO PRIVATE HANDS . FEDERAL LAWS , SUCH AS THE ...
... VALUABLE PROPERTY RIGHTS FROM AMERICAN CITIZENS WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION . I FIND IT IRONIC THAT THERE WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WAS DOING ALL IT COULD TO GET AMERICA'S LAND INTO PRIVATE HANDS . FEDERAL LAWS , SUCH AS THE ...
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... valuable mineral deposit within the limits of a mining claim and the annual filing of affidavits of labor performed . Historically these filings were made only with the county . The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ...
... valuable mineral deposit within the limits of a mining claim and the annual filing of affidavits of labor performed . Historically these filings were made only with the county . The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ...
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... valuable oil shale deposit . In 1960 , the Department changed its policy regarding assessment work requirements . It began rejecting patent applications for oil shale claims that it deemed invalid because of lack of assessment work ...
... valuable oil shale deposit . In 1960 , the Department changed its policy regarding assessment work requirements . It began rejecting patent applications for oil shale claims that it deemed invalid because of lack of assessment work ...
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... valuable resource rather than the oil - shale right . Previous pat- ents or leases account for the majority of the high - quality oil shale in Colorado . We believe that the State should play an active role in the management of the ...
... valuable resource rather than the oil - shale right . Previous pat- ents or leases account for the majority of the high - quality oil shale in Colorado . We believe that the State should play an active role in the management of the ...
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... valuable , but not critical wildlife habitat . But the privatization of the surface will affect the protection of these and make the protec- tion of these resources more difficult and will also alter longstand- ing surface agreements ...
... valuable , but not critical wildlife habitat . But the privatization of the surface will affect the protection of these and make the protec- tion of these resources more difficult and will also alter longstand- ing surface agreements ...
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Page 256 - ... and he shall also post such notice in his office for the same period. The claimant, at the time of filing this application, or at any time thereafter, within the sixty days of publication, shall file with the Register a certificate of the United States Surveyor-General that five hundred dollars...
Page 255 - ... the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as If no location of the same had ever been made...
Page 226 - Where minerals have been found and the evidence is of such a character that a person of ordinary prudence would be justified in the further expenditure of his labor and means, with a reasonable prospect of success, in developing a valuable mine, the requirements of the statute have been met.
Page 265 - ... publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or by publication such delinquent should fail or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by this section, his interest in the claim shall become the property of his co-owners who have made the required expenditures.
Page 60 - Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have.
Page 257 - Wyoming," approved August 1, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 1346), shall be subject to disposition only in the form and manner provided in this Act, except as to valid claims existent at date of the passage of this Act and thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims may be perfected under such laws, including discovery.
Page 150 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars...
Page 59 - States, species are classified as threatened or endangered by the US Fish and Wildlife service in accordance with the 1973 Endangered Species Act, renewed and extended in 1988.
Page 94 - The oil shale patentee shall have the right to use so much of the surface as is necessary for oil shale mining operations; other surface rights shall remain with the US government; d.
Page 123 - This is true even though the effect of the legislation is to impose a new duty or liability based on past acts.