Landowners Getting Mineral Rights Back Taken By State For Eminent Domain?

I heard the State has started giving back mineral rights to land owners who had land taken by "Eminent Domain". Does anyone one know if this is true? I heard people who had land taken to build interstates and road side rest areas are eligible.

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Don't know if it's true or not but, a question comes to mind being why would the State do that I wonder ?

Maybe the State thinks that they would be better off being paid taxes by the recipient landowner (especially if the land is leased to Oil & Gas development) instead of having to pay the expense of maintaining it ?

Then, I guess later, they could take it back again if they thought it made financial sense to them, couldn't they ?

No way will that ever happen. Way to many issues.  

Just another or so among many on the table already.

I can't rule anything out judging by everything else I've been reading about.

I keep writing it - I'll write it again here - good luck to all of us - I think we need it.
On a related note, if land owners retained their mineral rights when the state took land through eminent domain for Salt Fork more than 20 years ago, have those rights now passed to the current surface owner (the state) due to the Dormant Mineral Act?

That is a good question - I have read that the DMA cannot be used against the state or federal government; I don't know if they can use it.

Note that under the 2006 version of the DMA, the previous owners must be notified before the surface owner can claim the minerals; it isn't automatic and without notice like the older version.

Multiple discussions were posted. Please go to this link...http://gomarcellusshale.com/forum/topics/eminent-domain-mineral-rig...

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