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MINING PATENT MORATORIUM
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1996-10-03/html/CREC-1996-10-03-pt1-PgS12290.htm
``Five Year Plan for Making Final
Determination on Ninety Percent of Grandfathered Patent Applications
Pursuant to Public Law 104-134.''
142 Cong. Rec. S12290 - MINING PATENT MORATORIUM
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/CREC-1996-10-03/CREC-1996-10-03-pt1-PgS12290/content-detail.html
Another change in the administration of mining laws and regulations occurred in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 103-332 §§ 112-113, 108 Stat. 2499, 2519 (Sept. 30, 1994), which placed a moratorium on the patenting of new mining claims or sites, and the further processing of existing patent applications; this moratoriam has continued unbroken through subsequent appropriations language.The processing of a patent application to completion can result in the transfer of fee title or "patent" to the claimant for the Federal lands where the claims and sites are located.
Congress provided an exemption from the patenting moratorium for applicants who had satisfied the requirements of the Mining Law of 1872 for obtaining a patent before the moratorium went into effect.Only patent applications for which a "First Half of Mineral Entry-Final Certificate" (FHFC) had been issued were considered exempt or "grandfathered" from the moratorium.Over 600 patent applications were pending with the BLM when the moratorium went into effect on October 1, 1994.Of those, 405 patent applications had received a FHFC by September 30, 1994, and were determined to be "grandfathered" from the moratorium.Mining claimants in a "grandfathered" patent application are not required to comply with the maintenance fee statute after the FHFC was issued.
https://www.doi.gov/ocl/hearings/112/S303_32212
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1996-10-03/html/CREC-1996-10-03-pt1-PgS12290.htm
``Five Year Plan for Making Final
Determination on Ninety Percent of Grandfathered Patent Applications
Pursuant to Public Law 104-134.''
142 Cong. Rec. S12290 - MINING PATENT MORATORIUM
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/CREC-1996-10-03/CREC-1996-10-03-pt1-PgS12290/content-detail.html
Another change in the administration of mining laws and regulations occurred in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 103-332 §§ 112-113, 108 Stat. 2499, 2519 (Sept. 30, 1994), which placed a moratorium on the patenting of new mining claims or sites, and the further processing of existing patent applications; this moratoriam has continued unbroken through subsequent appropriations language.The processing of a patent application to completion can result in the transfer of fee title or "patent" to the claimant for the Federal lands where the claims and sites are located.
Congress provided an exemption from the patenting moratorium for applicants who had satisfied the requirements of the Mining Law of 1872 for obtaining a patent before the moratorium went into effect.Only patent applications for which a "First Half of Mineral Entry-Final Certificate" (FHFC) had been issued were considered exempt or "grandfathered" from the moratorium.Over 600 patent applications were pending with the BLM when the moratorium went into effect on October 1, 1994.Of those, 405 patent applications had received a FHFC by September 30, 1994, and were determined to be "grandfathered" from the moratorium.Mining claimants in a "grandfathered" patent application are not required to comply with the maintenance fee statute after the FHFC was issued.
https://www.doi.gov/ocl/hearings/112/S303_32212
