Cal. PRC § 6407
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 6407, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the commission and the legislative intent with respect to reservation of mineral deposits reserved to the state pursuant to Section 6401; but nothing herein shall be construed as limiting any power, duty, purpose, responsibility, or jurisdiction heretofore, or by this code, vested in or conferred upon the commission.
Mineral deposits reserved to the state shall include all mineral deposits in lands belonging to, or which may become, the property of the state, including but not limited to, oil and gas, other gases including, but not limited to, nonhydrocarbon and geothermal gases, oil shale, coal, phosphate, alumina, silica, fossils of all geological ages, sodium, gold, silver, metals and their compounds, alkali, alkali earth, sand, clay, gravel, salts and mineral waters, uranium, trona, and geothermal resources.
Mineral deposits reserved to the state shall include all mineral deposits in lands belonging to, or which may become, the property of the state, including but not limited to, oil and gas, other gases including, but not limited to, nonhydrocarbon and geothermal gases, oil shale, coal, phosphate, alumina, silica, fossils of all geological ages, sodium, gold, silver, metals and their compounds, alkali, alkali earth, sand, clay, gravel, salts and mineral waters, uranium, trona, and geothermal resources.
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