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FEDERAL
1934

VOLUME 2

REGISTER
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Washington Wednesday, January 6, 1937
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
General Land Office.
Circular No. 1415
R egulations G overning M in in g U nder J u n e 22, 1936

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D ecember 28, 1936.
Register, Anchorage, Alaska.
S ir : The act of June 22, 1936, Public No. 750, 74th Con gress, an act to extend the mining laws of the United States to the Glacier Bay National Monument in Alaska, provides as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the area
w ithin th e Glacier Bay National M onum ent in Alaska, or as it may hereafter be extended, all m ineral deposits of th e classes and kinds now subject to location, entry, and p atent under th e m ining laws . of th e U nited States shall be, exclusive of th e land containing them , subject to disposal under such laws, w ith right of occupation and use of so m uch of th e surface of th e land as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to th e m ining or removal of th e m inerals and under such general regulations as may be prescribed by th e Secretary of the Interior.

Under this act, the lands in the Glacier Bay National Monument, reserved by proclamation of February 26, 1925
43 Stat. 1988, or as it may be extended hereafter, are open to prospecting for the kinds of mineral now subject to loca tion under the United States mining laws, and, upon discov ery of any such mineral, locations may be made in accordance with the provisions of the mining laws and regulations there under. Such locations, duly made, will carry all the rights and incidents of mining locations, except that they will give to the locator no title to the land within their boundaries or claim thereto except the right to occupy and use so much of the surface of the land as required for all purposes reasonably necessary to mine and remove the minerals, such occupation and use to be under general regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
The owner of a mining location may cut such timber within the boundaries of his claim as is necessary for mining pur poses. Prospectors may cut timber for their necessary min ing and domestic uses only with the permission of the cus todian of the monument or his representative who will designate the timber to be cut. All slash, brush or debris resulting from the cutting of timber upon mining claims or by prospectors shall be disposed of by the claimant or pros pector in such manner and at such time as may be designated by the National Park Service officer in charge so as to pre vent the creation of fire hazards, or conditions conducive to the development of infestation by timber-destroying insects.
Prospectors or miners shall not open or construct roads or vehicle trails without first obtaining a permit from the Di rector of the National Park Service. Applications for such permits may be made through the officer in charge of the
monument upon submitting a map or sketch showing the location of the mining property to be served and the loca tion of the proposed road or vehicle trail. The permit may be conditioned upon the permittee maintaining the road or trail in a passable condition so long as it is used by the permittee or his successors.
Occupation and use of the surface of an unpatented min ing claim is restricted by the general law to such as is rea sonably incident to the exploration, development and extrac tion of the minerals in the claim. Accordingly, any locator or patentee of a mining claim located under this act will be entitled to such right. Upon written permission of the Director of the National Park Service or his representative, the surface of such claim may be used for other specified purposes, the use to be on such conditions and for such period as may be prescribed when permission is granted.
Prospectors and miners shall at all times conform to any rules now prescribed or which may be made applicable by the Director of the National Park Service to the national monument.
Attention is called to the park regulation for the protection of wild life which provides:
The national m onum ent is a sanctuary for wild life of every sort, and all hunting, or the killing, wounding, frightening, captur ing or attem pting to capture at any tim e of any wild bird or animal, except dangerous anim als w hen it is necessary to prevent them from destroying hum an lives or inflicting personal injury, is prohibited.
Firearms, traps, seines, and n ets are prohibited w ith in the boundaries of th e m onum ent, except upon w ritten perm ission of th e custodian or h is representative.

The right of occupation and use of the surface of the land embraced in the boundaries of a location, entry or patent pursuant to this act will terminate when the minerals are mined out or the claim is abahdoned. Any owner of an unpatented location who fails to perform annual assessment work on his claim for any assessment period will be assumed to have abandoned his claim, and his right of occupation and use of the surface of the claim considered at an end.
Applications for patents and final certificates issued there on for mining claims in this monument should be noted Glacier Bay National Monument Lands, and all patents issued for claims under the act will convey title to the min erals only, and contain appropriate reference to the act and these regulations.
Very respectfully, F red W . J o h n s o n , Commissioner.
I concur:
A rno B. C ammerer , Director, National Park Service.
Approved, December 28, 1936.
T . A. W alters ,
First Assistant Secretary.
F. R. Doc. 37-31; Filed, January 5,1937; 9 :80 a. m.

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