30 USC 702
30 USC 702
§ 702 - “Qualified applicant” defined
CHAPTER 20— CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS
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.