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title: "30 U.S.C. § 702"
description: "“Qualified applicant” defined"
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title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
chapter_number: "20"
chapter_name: "CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS"
section: "702"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 702"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 30 U.S.C. § 702 - “Qualified applicant” defined

## Text

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.

(Pub. L. 87–851, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)