Front Matter
*Title 1—General Provisions
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Title 2—The Congress
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*Title 3—The President
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*Title 4—Flag And Seal, Seat Of Government, And The States
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*Title 5—Government Organization And Employees
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Appendix
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Title 6—Domestic Security
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Title 7—Agriculture
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Title 8—Aliens And Nationality
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*Title 9—Arbitration
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*Title 10—Armed Forces
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*Title 11—Bankruptcy
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Appendix
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Title 12—Banks And Banking
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*Title 13—Census
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*Title 14—Coast Guard
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Title 15—Commerce And Trade
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Title 16—Conservation
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*Title 17—Copyrights
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*Title 18—Crimes And Criminal Procedure
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Appendix
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Title 19—Customs Duties
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Title 20—Education
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Title 21—Food And Drugs
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Title 22—Foreign Relations And Intercourse
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*Title 23—Highways
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Title 24—Hospitals And Asylums
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Title 25—Indians
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Title 26—Internal Revenue Code
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Title 27—Intoxicating Liquors
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*Title 28—Judiciary And Judicial Procedure
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Appendix
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Title 29—Labor
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Title 30—Mineral Lands And Mining
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TITLE 30—Front Matter
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CHAPTER 1—UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES
(sections 1 to 16)
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CHAPTER 2—MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
(sections 21 to 54)
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CHAPTER 2—Front Matter
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Sec. 21. Mineral lands reserved
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Sec. 21a. National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
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Sec. 22. Lands open to purchase by citizens
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Sec. 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes
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Sec. 24. Proof of citizenship
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Sec. 25. Affidavit of citizenship
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Sec. 26. Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment
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Sec. 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
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Sec. 28. Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner's succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure
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Sec. 28-1. Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
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Sec. 28-2. Definitions
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Sec. 28a. Omitted
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Sec. 28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
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Sec. 28c. Length and termination of deferment
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Sec. 28d. Performance of deferred work
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Sec. 28e. Recordation of deferment
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Sec. 28f. Fee
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Sec. 28g. Location fee
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Sec. 28h. Co-ownership
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Sec. 28i. Failure to pay
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Sec. 28j. Other requirements
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Sec. 28k. Regulations
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Sec. 28l. Collection of mining law administration fees
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Sec. 29. Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant's agent for execution of application and affidavits
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Sec. 30. Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants' filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title
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Sec. 31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
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Sec. 32. Findings by jury; costs
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Sec. 33. Existing rights
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Sec. 34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
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Sec. 35. Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land
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Sec. 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
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Sec. 37. Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent
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Sec. 38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
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Sec. 39. Surveyors of mining claims
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Sec. 40. Verification of affidavits
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Sec. 41. Intersecting or crossing veins
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Sec. 42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
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Sec. 43. Conditions of sale by local legislature
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Secs. 44, 45. Omitted
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Sec. 46. Additional land districts and officers
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Sec. 47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
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Sec. 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
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Sec. 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
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Sec. 49a. Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State
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Sec. 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
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Sec. 49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
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Sec. 49d. Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
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Sec. 49e. Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
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Sec. 49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
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Sec. 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
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Sec. 51. Water users' vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers' possession
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Sec. 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
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Sec. 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
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Sec. 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities
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CHAPTER 3—LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE
(sections 71 to 172)
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CHAPTER 3A—LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
(sections 181 to 287)
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CHAPTER 4—LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS
(sections 291 to 293)
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CHAPTER 5—LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY
(sections 301 to 306)
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CHAPTER 6—SYNTHETIC LIQUID FUEL DEMONSTRATION PLANTS
(sections 321 to 325)
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CHAPTER 7—LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS
(sections 351 to 360)
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CHAPTER 8—DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES
(sections 401 to 404)
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CHAPTER 9—RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION
(sections 411 to 412)
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CHAPTER 10—COAL MINE SAFETY
(sections 451 to 483)
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CHAPTER 11—MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS
(sections 501 to 505)
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CHAPTER 12—MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS
(sections 521 to 531)
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CHAPTER 12A—ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE MATERIAL
(sections 541 to 541i)
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CHAPTER 13—CONTROL OF COAL-MINE FIRES
(sections 551 to 558)
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CHAPTER 14—ANTHRACITE MINE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL
(sections 571 to 576)
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CHAPTER 15—SURFACE RESOURCES
(sections 601 to 615)
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CHAPTER 16—MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF LANDS WITHDRAWN FOR POWER DEVELOPMENT
(sections 621 to 625)
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CHAPTER 17—EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR DISCOVERY OF MINERALS
(sections 641 to 646)
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CHAPTER 18—COAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(sections 661 to 668)
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CHAPTER 19—LEAD AND ZINC STABILIZATION PROGRAM
(sections 681 to 689)
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CHAPTER 20—CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS
(sections 701 to 709)
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CHAPTER 21—METAL AND NONMETALLIC MINE SAFETY
(sections 721 to 740)
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CHAPTER 22—MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH
(sections 801 to 966)
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CHAPTER 23—GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
(sections 1001 to 1028)
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CHAPTER 24—GEOTHERMAL ENERGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION
(sections 1101 to 1164)
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CHAPTER 25—SURFACE MINING CONTROL AND RECLAMATION
(sections 1201 to 1328)
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CHAPTER 26—DEEP SEABED HARD MINERAL RESOURCES
(sections 1401 to 1473)
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CHAPTER 27—GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
(sections 1501 to 1542)
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CHAPTER 28—MATERIALS AND MINERALS POLICY, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT
(sections 1601 to 1607)
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CHAPTER 29—OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT
(sections 1701 to 1759)
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CHAPTER 30—NATIONAL CRITICAL MATERIALS COUNCIL
(sections 1801 to 1811)
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CHAPTER 31—MARINE MINERAL RESOURCES RESEARCH
(sections 1901 to 1905)
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CHAPTER 32—METHANE HYDRATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(sections 2001 to 2006)
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*Title 31—Money And Finance
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*Title 32—National Guard
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Title 33—Navigation And Navigable Waters
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Title 34—Crime Control And Law Enforcement
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*Title 35—Patents
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*Title 36—Patriotic And National Observances, Ceremonies, And Organizations
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*Title 37—Pay And Allowances Of The Uniformed Services
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*Title 38—Veterans' Benefits
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*Title 39—Postal Service
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*Title 40—Public Buildings, Property, And Works
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*Title 41—Public Contracts
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Title 42—The Public Health And Welfare
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Title 43—Public Lands
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*Title 44—Public Printing And Documents
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Title 45—Railroads
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*Title 46—Shipping
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Title 47—Telecommunications
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Title 48—Territories And Insular Possessions
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*Title 49—Transportation
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Title 50—War And National Defense
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Appendix
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*Title 51—National And Commercial Space Programs
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Title 52—Voting And Elections
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Title 53—[Reserved]
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*Title 54—National Park Service And Related Programs
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Popular Names and Tables
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