---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 82"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "82"
heading: "New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/82"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone"
  - "Subchapter II — Coal Land Entries under Nonmineral Land Laws with Reservation of Coal to United States"
---

# §82. New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal


The [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior is authorized and directed in cases where patents for public lands have been issued to entrymen under the provisions of sections [81](/usc/30/81.md) and [83](/usc/30/83.md) to [85](/usc/30/85.md) of this title, reserving to the United States all coal deposits therein, and lands so patented are subsequently classified as noncoal in character, to issue new or supplemental patents without such reservation.


## Source credit

(Apr. 14, 1914, ch. 55, 38 Stat. 335.)