...section explicitly amending the Mining Law to require the secretary, in managing the public lands, to "take any action necessary to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands."23 Obviously, such forbidden degradation might result from activities on invalid mining claims....

...Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Section 302(b) of that Act directs the Secretary to take any action necessary to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands. Section 603 mandates wilderness inventory and allows for continued mining operations that do not impair...

...require reclamation. The Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 requires in section 302(b) that the secretary shall by regulation or otherwise take...prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands. That is all of the federal legislation that I am aware of that affects reclamation of hard rock mining....

...A Legal Analysis. Pamela Baldwin, Legislative Attorney, American Law Division, March 10, 1986. -7In managing the public lands the Secretary shall, by...unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands. 43 USC 1732 (b). This provision of lav provides the basis for the Bureau of Land Management's "3809" regulations...

...and degree in which the same was being conducted on the date of approval of this Act: Provided, That, in managing the public lands the Secretary shall by regulation or otherwise take any action required to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands and their resources or to afford...

...claims with BLM, and authorized the Secretary of the Interior to establish a regulatory program to "take any action necessary to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands." Act of October 21, 1976 (90 Stat. 2795)— Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 — Established...

...Management Act of 1976 require* that in managing public land* administered by the BLM the Secretary aha 11, by regulation or otherwise, take any action necessary...to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the land*. That mandate is reflected in the regulation* relating to mining — in 43 CPR 3809. Those regulation*...

...Management Act ("FLPMA") , which requires the Secretary of the Interior, in managing public lands, to take any action necessary to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands. The impact of the undue or unnecessary standard upon mining operations is reasonably predictable, as...

...Subsection 302(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLFMA) Instructs the BLM to "... take any action necessary to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the lands ..." Other portions of FLPMA require multiple nee management and land uae r1*"'*<"fl Mineral activities...

...and degree in which the same was being conducted on October 21, 1976: Provided. That, in in«n.ging the public lands the Secretary shall by regulation or otherwise take any action required to prevent nnnti^nsary or undue degradation of the lands and their resources or to afford...