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1982 Interior Dec. (IBLA) 94 (1982)

handle is hein.amindian/ibla1982 and id is 1 raw text is: AL SHERMAN

IBLA 82-144                                  Decided January 4, 1982
Appeal from decision of Oregon State Office, Bureau of Land Management, deeming an
unpatented mining claim abandoned and void. OR 7065.
Affirmed.
1.   Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976: Recordation of
Mining Claims and Abandonment--Mining Claims: Recordation
Where a mining claim was located in Apr. 1970 and a copy of the
official record of the notice of location was not filed with the proper
BLM office on or before Oct. 22, 1979, the claim is properly declared
abandoned and void pursuant to 43 U.S.C. § 1744(c) (1976).
2.    Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976: Recordation of
Mining Claims and Abandonment--Mining Claims: Abandonment
The conclusive presumption of abandonment which attends the failure
to file an instrument required by 43 U.S.C. § 1744 (1976), is imposed
by the statute itself. A matter of law, it is self-operative and does not
depend upon any act or decision of an administrative official. In
enacting the statute, Congress did not invest the Secretary with
authority to waive or excuse noncompliance with the statute, or to
afford claimants any relief from the statutory consequences.
APPEARANCES: Al Sherman, pro se.

61 IBLA 94

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