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PUBLIC LAW 585-AUG. 13, 1954

jpersonal delivery or mailing of a copy of notice to any person, the publication of such notice shall be deemed wholly ineffectual as to that person or as to the rights asserted by that person and the failure of that person to file a verified statement, as provided in such notice, shall in no manner affect, diminish, prejudice or bar any rights of that person. SEC. 8. The owner or owners of any mining claim heretofore located may, at any time prior to issuance of patent therefor, waive and relinquish all rights thereunder to Leasing Act minerals. The execution and acknowledgment of such a waiver and relinquishment by such owner or owners and the recordation thereof in the office where the notice or certificate of location of such mining claim is of record shall render such mining claim thereafter subject to the reservation referred to in section 4 of this Act and any patent issued therefor shall contain such a reservation, but no such waiver or relinquishment shall be deemed in any manner to constitute any concession as to the date of priority of rights under said mining claim or as to the validity thereof. SEC. 9. Lands withdrawn from the public domain which are within (a) Helium Reserve Numbered 1, pursuant to Executive orders of March 21, 1924, and January 28, 1926, and (b) Helium Reserve Numbered 2 pursuant to Executive Order 6184 of June 26, 1933, shall be subject to entry and location under the mining laws of the United States, and to permit and lease under the mineral leasing laws, upon determination by the Secretary of the Interior, based upon available geologic and other information, that there is no reasonable probability that operations pursuant to entry or location of the particular lands under the mining laws, or pursuant to a permit or lease of the particular lands under the Mineral Leasing Act, will result in the extraction or cause loss or waste of the helium-bearing gas in the lands of such reserves: Providedy That the lands shall not become subject to entry, location, permit, or lease until such time as the Secretary designates in an order published in the Federal Register: And provided further, That the Secretary may at any time as a condition to continued mineral operations require the entryman, locator, permittee or lessee to take such measures either above or below the surface of the lands as the Secretary deems necessary to prevent loss or waste of the helium-bearing gas. SEC. 10. The Atomic Energy Act is hereby amended as follows: (a) Sections (b)(5) is revised to read: "(5) ACQUISITION.—The Commission is authorized to the extent it deems necessary to effectuate the provisions of this Act— " (A) to purchase, take, requisition, condemn, or otherwise acquire supplies of fissionable source materials or any interest in real property containing deposits of fissionable source materials; and " (B) to purchase, take, requisition, condemn, or otherwise acquire rights to enter upon any real property deemed by it to have possibilities of containing deposits of fissionable source materials and to conduct prospecting and exploratory operations for such deposits. Any purchase made under this paragraph may be made without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C. title 41, sec. 6) upon certification by the Commission that such action is necessary in the interest of the common defense and security, or upon a showing that advertising is not reasonably practicable, and partial and advance payments may be made thereunder. The Commission may establish guaranteed prices for all fissionable source materials delivered to it within a specified time. Just compensation shall be

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H e r e to f ore located claims. Relinquishment of mineral rights.

Helium lands subject to entry.

41 Stat. 437. 30 USC 22, 181 et seq. P u b l i c a t i o n of order in FR.

60 Stat. 761. 42 USC 1805 (b) (5). Post, p. 919. F i ssionable source materials.

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