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Show Ml wmtm fir rapai iff Mtipofoi Sim lan Offices within three years from that date. New locations of claims after October 21, 1976, must be filed within 90 days. Owners of partial interest or owners by trans -fer also must record their claims. Annual reporting of assessment work is also required. re-quired. Failure to file con-titutes con-titutes abandonment. By late June 1977, a total of 47,783 unpatented mining claims had been recorded at BLM State Offices, of which more than 90 percent were new claims. Since an estimated 1.6 million unpatented un-patented mining claims existed ex-isted on public lands in the Western states at the time the Federal Land Policy and Management Act was passed, the new recordation is a constructive step toward "the management of public lands and their various resource re-source values so that they are utilized in the combination combina-tion that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people." In mid-August 1977, 18,-108 18,-108 unpatented mining claims had been recorded in the BLM Utah State Office, indicating in-dicating that Utah mining operators are willing to co -operate with the move to create order out of the form -er chaotic and scattered records rec-ords of mining claims. When the Mining Law of 1872 was passed, Utah was still 24 years away from statehood, and the population totaled less than 90,000, about 115 the present population. pop-ulation. In the late spring of 1977, President Jimmy Carter instructed in-structed the Secretary of the Interior to prepare for submission to Congress legislation leg-islation to replace the Mining Min-ing Law of 1872 with one more suited to contemporary needs. He instructed that provisions be made for: 1) A leasing system for publicly-owned hardrock minerals; 2) Explicit Federal discretionary dis-cretionary authority over mineral exploration and development de-velopment on Federal lands; 3) Strict standards for en -vironmental protection and for reclamation of mined areas; 4) A requirement for approval ap-proval of operation and reclamation rec-lamation plans before mining can begin, 5) Royalties for use of public lands and mineral resources; re-sources; and 6) The integration of mining min-ing into land use plans being developed for, public lands. One roadblock to effective planning and management of public lands has been removed re-moved by the Organic Act with the requirement for recordation with the Federal government of unpatented mining claims. Previously, inventory was next to im -possible for it meant endless searches of land records in local courthouses and on-the on-the -ground inspection of millions mil-lions of acres of land. Now, however, owners of unpatented mining claims, millsites or tunnels prior to October 21, 1976, are required re-quired to file a record of their claims with BLM State |