---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 100735"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "100735"
heading: "Civil actions for just compensation by mining claim holders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/100735"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1007 — Resource Management"
  - "Subchapter III — Mining Activity Within System Units"
---

# §100735. Civil actions for just compensation by mining claim holders


The holder of any patented or unpatented mining claim subject to this subchapter that believes the holder has suffered a loss by operation of this subchapter, or by orders or regulations issued pursuant to this subchapter, may bring a civil action in United States district court to recover just compensation, which shall be awarded if the court finds that the loss constitutes a taking of property compensable under the Constitution.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3110.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 100735 | 16 U.S.C. 1910. | Pub. L. 94–429, § 11, Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1344; Pub. L. 98–620, title IV, § 402(21), 98 Stat. 3358. |