ATOMIC ENERGY ACT Act of August 1, 1946. (60 Stat. 755) An Act for the development and control of atomic energy. This Act was established to assure the proper management of source, special nuclear, and byproduct material. The Act applies to both civilian and the military uses of nuclear materials. The Act regulates the uses of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States. The Act requires that civilian uses of nuclear materials and facilities be licensed. Uranium deposits and other fissionable materials are removed from the operation of the General Mining Law and such deposits are to be prospected for by the Atomic Energy Commission. MATERIALS SALES ACT Act of July 31, 1947. (61 Stat. 681) An Act to provide for the disposal of materials on the public lands of the United States. This Act authorized the Secretary of the Interior and Agriculture to sell surface mineral and vegetal resources not otherwise so authorized, including sand, gravel, pumice, and other common surficial deposits. MINERAL LEASING ACT FOR An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gas, and sulfur on lands acquired by the United States. This Act extended the provisions of the 1920 Mineral Leasing Act to the similar mineral deposits (e.g., coal, oil, gas, sodium, potash, phosphate, oil shale) on lands acquired by the United States. Act allowed simultaneous use c land for mining under the ws and for lease operation under eral leasing laws. The Act I mining claims located after its date to "multiple use," thereby restrictions on the miner's use rface. The Act also reserved to ed States leasable minerals and, where such minerals are known in commercial quantities, them to be excepted from issued pursuant to the mining LTIPLE SURFACE USE ACT Act of July 23, 1955. (69 Stat. 367) o amend the Act of July 31, 1947 1. 681) and the mining laws to for multiple use of the surface of e tracts of the public lands, and r purposes. e Act requires a claimant to file a statement on mining claims prior to July 23, 1955. The act ed mining claims from being staked or used for nonmining es; it also prevented timber waste atented mining claims. Under this federal government could acquire o surface resources by means of rocedure. COMMON VARIETIES ACT Act of July 23, 1955. (69 Stat. 367) to amend the Act of July 31, 1947 at. 681) and the mining laws to e for multiple use of the surface of me tracts of the public lands, and er purposes. This Act regulated mineral material disposal by removing from the purview of the Mining Law those common varieties of minerals identified in the 1947 Act, and made their development exclusively subject to the latter Act. This Act also prohibited surface use of pre-1955 unpatented claims for purposes not reasonably incident to mining, and made the surface and surface resources subject to federal management, prior to patent. The surface may also be subject to rights of access by "permittees and licensees" of the United States, and even the general public, to reach adjoining lands or engage in recreational activities. PRICE ANDERSON ACT Act of September 2, 1957. (71 Stat. 576) An Act to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes. This Act limits the amount of liability for bodily injury, sickness, disease or death, or loss of or damage to property, or for loss of use of property caused outside the United States by a nuclear incident occurring within the United States. PATENTS TO PLACER CLAIMS ON NONMINERAL LANDS Act of March 18, 1960 (74 Stat. 7) An Act to amend the mining laws of the United States to provide for the inclusion of certain nonmineral lands in patents to placer claims. This Act provided for the location and patenting of millsite claims in association with placer mining claims. |