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107 STAT. 406 PUBLIC LAW 103-66—AUG. 10, 1993 to the Secretary that on the date the payment was due, the claimant and all related parties— (A) held not more than 10 mining claims, mill sites, or tunnel sites, or any combination thereof, on public lands; and (B) have performed assessment work required under the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28-28e) to maintain the mining claims held by the claimant and such related parties for the assessment year ending on noon of September 1 of the calendsir year in which payment of the claim maintenance fee was due. (2) For purposes of paragraph (1), with respect to any claimant, the term "related party^ means— (A) the spouse and dependent children (as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), of the claimant; and (B) a person who controls, is controlled by, or is imder common control with the claimant. For purposes of this section, the term control includes actual control, legal control, and the power to exercise control, through or by common directors, ofiEicers, stockholders, a voting trust, or a holding company or investment company, or any other means. 30 u s e 28g. SEC. 10102. LOCATION FEE. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for every unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site located after the date of enactment of this subtitle and before September 30, 1998, pursuant to the Mining Laws of the United States, the locator shall, at the time the location notice is recorded with the Bureau of Land Management, pay to the Secretary of the Interior a location fee, in addition to the claim maintenance fee required by section 10101, of $25.00 per claim. 30 u s e 28h. SEC. 10103. CO-OWNERSHIP. The co-ownership provisions of the Mining Law of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 28) shall remain in effect, except that in applying such provisions, the annual claim maintenance fee required under this Act shall, where applicable, replace applicable assessment require- ments and expenditures. 30USe28i. SEC. 10104. FAILURE TO PAY. Failure to pay the claim maintenance fee or the location fee as required by this subtitle shall conclusively constitute a forfeiture of the unpatented mining claim, mill or tunnel site by the claimant and the claim shall be deemed null and void by operation of law. 30USe28j. SEC. 10105. OTHER REQUIREMENTS. (a) FEDERAL LAND POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ACT REQUIRE- MENTS.—^Nothing in this subtitle shall change or modify the require- ments of section 314(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1744(b)), or the requirements of section 314(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1744(c)) related to filings required by section 314(b), and such requirements shall remain in effect with respect to claims, and mill or tunnel sites for which fees are required to be paid under this section. (b) REVISED STATUTES SECTION 2324.—The third sentence of section 2324 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 28) is amended by inserting after "On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two," the following: "that is