---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 274"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "274"
heading: "Lands containing coal or other minerals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/274"
units:
  - "Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Sulphur"
---

# §274. Lands containing coal or other minerals


Prospecting permits or leases may be issued in the discretion of the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior under the provisions of this subchapter for deposits of sulphur in public lands also containing coal or other minerals on condition that such other deposits be reserved to the United States for disposal under applicable laws.


## Source credit

(Apr. 17, 1926, ch. 158, § 4, 44 Stat. 302.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter.