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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... Summers is essen- tial to prevent challenges to the Department's use of these stand- ards in making validity determinations . Eighth , we believe that it is essential that the Congress establish by law the Department's standard of what ...
... Summers is essen- tial to prevent challenges to the Department's use of these stand- ards in making validity determinations . Eighth , we believe that it is essential that the Congress establish by law the Department's standard of what ...
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... of the Department's discovery standard based on Freeman v . Summers is essential to prevent challenges to the Department's use of these standards in making validity determinations . 3 Seventh , we believe that it is essential that 26.
... of the Department's discovery standard based on Freeman v . Summers is essential to prevent challenges to the Department's use of these standards in making validity determinations . 3 Seventh , we believe that it is essential that 26.
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... Summers , the case in which the allowance of geological inference was first established , and the prospective value of oil shale was held to be sufficient for patenting . However , after the Senate This relaxed standard met with ...
... Summers , the case in which the allowance of geological inference was first established , and the prospective value of oil shale was held to be sufficient for patenting . However , after the Senate This relaxed standard met with ...
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... Summers precedent to verify the discovery of a valuable oil shale deposit . In 1960 , the Department changed its policy regarding assessment work It began rejecting patent applications for oil shale claims requirements . that it deemed ...
... Summers precedent to verify the discovery of a valuable oil shale deposit . In 1960 , the Department changed its policy regarding assessment work It began rejecting patent applications for oil shale claims requirements . that it deemed ...
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... summer range in this area as critical habitat for elk . Several of the patent lands contain wildlife habitat , wildlife migration routes , riparian areas , elk calving and nursing areas , sagegrouse habitat and blue grouse winter ...
... summer range in this area as critical habitat for elk . Several of the patent lands contain wildlife habitat , wildlife migration routes , riparian areas , elk calving and nursing areas , sagegrouse habitat and blue grouse winter ...
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Page 263 - 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 232 - After a careful consideration of the subject, it is my opinion that 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 64 - Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. I would be pleased to answer any questions you may have.
Page 152 - 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 63 - 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 260 - ... valid claims existent on February 25, 1920, and thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims may be perfected under such laws, including discovery.
Page 125 - This is true even though the effect of the legislation is to impose a new duty or liability based on past acts.
Page 87 - January 15, 1987 January 16, 1987 January 22, 1987 January 22, 1987 January 29, 2987 February 3, 1987 February 6, 1987 February 6, 1987 March, 1987 March, 1987 March 26, 1987 April 14, 1987 Colorado receives copy of F1nesilver's December 24, 1986 order continuing matter until January 15, 1987.
Page 89 - Winter Concentration Areas - That part of the winter range of a species where densities are XX greater (defined for each DAU) than the surrounding winter range density during the same period used to define winter range in the average five winters out of ten. Severe winter Range - That part of the range of a species where 90 percent of the Individuals are located when the annual snowpaclc 1s at Us maximum 1n the two worst winters out of ten.
Page 237 - A petition for rehearing filed under this paragraph must be supported by a certificate of counsel to the effect that it is presented in good faith and not for delay, and counsel must also certify that the petition is restricted to the grounds above specified.