---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 702"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "702"
heading: "“Qualified applicant” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/702"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Conveyances to Occupants of Unpatented Mining Claims"
---

# §702. “Qualified applicant” defined


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.


## Source credit

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