An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain.
Enacted by
the 66th United States Congress
Effective
February 25, 1920
Citations
Public law
Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 66–146
Statutes at Large
41 Stat. 437
Codification
Titles amended
30 U.S.C.: Mineral Lands and Mining
U.S.C. sections created
30 U.S.C. ch. 3A § 181 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 2775 by Reed Smoot (R–UT) on August 15, 1919
Committee consideration by Senate Public Lands, House Rules
Passed the Senate on September 3, 1919 (Passed)
Passed the House on October 30, 1919 (Passed)
Reported by the joint conference committee on November 1, 1919; agreed to by the House on February 10, 1920 (287-13) and by the Senate on February 11, 1920 (Agreed)
Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on February 25, 1920
United States Supreme Court cases
Wilbur v. United States Ex Rel. Krushnic, 280 U.S. 306 (1930)
Ickes v. Virginia-Colorado Development Corp., 295 U.S. 639 (1935)
Boesche v. Udall, 373 U.S. 472 (1963)
Wallis v. Pan American Petroleum Corp., 384 U.S. 63 (1966)
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U.S. 240 (1975)
Andrus v. Shell Oil Co., 446 U.S. 657 (1980)
Watt v. Alaska, 451 U.S. 259 (1981)
United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Assn., No. 18-1584, 590 U.S. ___ (2020)
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