---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1471"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1471"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1471"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources"
  - "Subchapter III — Enforcement and Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §1471. Severability


If any provision of this chapter or any application thereof is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter, or any other application, shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–283, title III, § 311, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 582.)