---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450ii–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450ii–1"
heading: "Excluded lands opened to entry under mining laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450ii-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450ii–1. Excluded lands opened to entry under mining laws


All public-domain lands included before September 25, 1950, within the Joshua Tree National Monument which are eliminated from the National Monument by sections [450ii](/usc/16/450ii.md) to [450ii–3](/usc/16/450ii–3.md) of this title are opened to location, entry, and patenting under the United States mining laws: Provided, That such public-domain lands or portions thereof shall be restored to application and entry under other applicable public land laws, including the mineral leasing laws.


## Source credit

(Sept. 25, 1950, ch. 1030, § 2, 64 Stat. 1035.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Abolition of Joshua Tree National Monument

Joshua Tree National Monument abolished and incorporated in Joshua Tree National Park, see section 410aaa–22 of this title.