---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 204"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "204"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 94–377, § 13(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/204"
units:
  - "Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits"
  - "Subchapter II — Coal"
---

# [§204. Repealed. Pub. L. 94–377, § 13(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 4, 41 Stat. 439, provided for the leasing of an additional tract of land or coal deposit, not to exceed 2560 acres, upon a showing by a lessee that all workable deposits of coal would be exhausted, worked out, or removed within three years thereafter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Savings Provision

Pub. L. 94–377, § 13(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090, provided that the repeal of this section is subject to valid existing rights.