[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2623.2]

[Page 174]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2620_STATE GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart 2623_School Land Grants to Certain States Extended To Include 
                            Mineral Sections
 
Sec. 2623.2  Claims protected.

    (a) Valid applications, claims, or rights protected by the 
provisions of subsection (c) of section 1 of the Act of January 25, 
1927, include applications, entries, selections, locations, permits, 
leases, and other forms of filing, initiated or held pursuant to 
existing laws of the United States prior to January 25, 1927, embracing 
known mineral school-section lands then surveyed and otherwise within 
the terms of the additional grant, and as to lands thereafter surveyed, 
valid applications, claims, or rights so initiated or held prior to the 
date of the acceptance of the survey. The additional grant to the State 
will attach upon the effective date of the relinquishment or 
cancellation of any claim, so asserted, in the absence of any other 
valid existing claim for the land and if same be then surveyed. Should 
the validity of any such claim be questioned by the State, proceedings 
with respect thereto by protest, contest, hearing, etc., will be had in 
the form and manner prescribed by existing rules governing such cases. 
This procedure will be followed in the matter of all protests, contests, 
or claims filed by individuals, associations, or corporations against 
the States affecting school-section lands.