The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee reported H.B. 1436 (J. White, D-Washington), the Mineral Rights Act, which provides for reassignment of abandoned mineral rights in privately owned real property and establishes a process for surface and sub-surface owners to claim abandoned rights and guidelines for resolution of legal disputes over title to abandoned rights.
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