Federal · Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
30 U.S.C. § 702: “Qualified applicant” defined
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For the purposes of this chapter a qualified applicant is a residential occupant-owner, as of October 23, 1962 , of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to July 23, 1962 .
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