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43 CFR §3503.13

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Subject to the consent of the surface managing agency, you may obtain hardrock mineral permits and leases only in the following areas:
  1. (a)Lands identified in Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1946, for which jurisdiction for mineral leasing was transferred to the Secretary of the Interior. These include lands originally acquired under the following acts:
    1. (1)16 U.S.C. 520 (Weeks Act);
    2. (2)Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act (40 U.S.C. 401, 403a and 408);
    3. (3)The 1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act (48 Stat. 115 and 118);
    4. (4)Section 55 of Title I of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750 and 781); and
    5. (5)The Act of July 22, 1937 (7 U.S.C. 1011 (c) and 1018 (repealed), Bankhead-Jones Act).
  2. (b)Lands added to the Shasta National Forest by Act of March 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 83);
  3. (c)Public Domain Lands within the National Forests in Minnesota (16 U.S.C. 508 (b));
  4. (d)Lands in New Mexico that are portions of Juan Jose Lobato Grant (North Lobato) and Anton Chica Grant (El Pueblo) as described in section 1 of the Act of June 28, 1952 (66 Stat. 285);
  5. (e)Lands in the Shasta and Trinity Units of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Areas;
  6. (f)The following National Park Lands:
    1. (1)Lake Mead National Recreation Area;
    2. (2)Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; and
    3. (3)Lands in the Whiskeytown Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area;
  7. (g)Lands patented to the State of California for park or other purposes where minerals were reserved to the United States; and
  8. (h)White Mountains National Recreation Area, Alaska.