30 USC Ch. 3A: Front Matter
From Title 30-MINERAL LANDS AND MININGCHAPTER 3A-LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
CHAPTER 3A-LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec.
181.
Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium rights reserved.
182.
Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc.
183.
Cancellation of prospecting permits.
184.
Limitations on leases held, owned or controlled by persons, associations or corporations.
(a)
Coal leases.
(b)
Sodium leases or permits, acreage.
(c)
Phosphate leases, acreage.
(d)
Oil or gas leases, acreage, Alaska; options, semiannual statements.
(e)
Association or stockholder interests, conditions; combined interests.
(f)
Limitations on other sections; combined interests permitted for certain purposes.
(g)
Forbidden interests acquired by descent, will, judgment, or decree; permissible holding period.
(h)
Cancellation, forfeiture, or disposal of interests for violation; bona fide purchasers and other valid interests; sale by Secretary; record of proceedings.
(i)
Bona fide purchasers, conditions for obtaining dismissals.
(j)
Waiver or suspension of rights.
(k)
Unlawful trusts; forfeiture.
(l)
Rules and regulations; notice to and consultation with Attorney General; application of antitrust laws; definitions.
184a.
Authorization of States to include in agreements for conservation of oil and gas resources lands acquired from United States.
185.
Rights-of-way for pipelines through Federal lands.
(a)
Grant of authority.
(b)
Definitions.
(c)
Inter-agency coordination.
(d)
Width limitations.
(e)
Temporary permits.
(f)
Regulatory authority.
(g)
Pipeline safety.
(h)
Environmental protection.
(i)
Disclosure.
(j)
Technical and financial capability.
(k)
Public hearings.
(l)
Reimbursement of costs.
(m)
Bonding.
(n)
Duration of grant.
(o)
Suspension or termination of right-of-way.
(p)
Joint use of rights-of-way.
(q)
Statutes.
(r)
Common carriers.
(s)
Exports of Alaskan North Slope oil.
(t)
Existing rights-of-way.
(u)
Limitations on export.
(v)
State standards.
(w)
Reports.
(x)
Liability.
(y)
Antitrust laws.
186.
Reservation of easements or rights-of-way for working purposes; reservation of right to dispose of surface of lands; determination before offering of lease; easement periods.
187.
Assignment or subletting of leases; relinquishment of rights under leases; conditions in leases for protection of diverse interests in operation of mines, wells, etc.; State laws not impaired.
187a.
Oil or gas leases; partial assignments.
187b.
Oil or gas leases; written relinquishment of rights; release of obligations.
188.
Failure to comply with provisions of lease.
(a)
Forfeiture.
(b)
Cancellation.
(c)
Reinstatement.
(d)
Additional grounds for reinstatement.
(e)
Conditions for reinstatement.
(f)
Issuance of noncompetitive oil and gas lease; conditions.
(g)
Treatment of leases.
(h)
Statutory provisions applicable to leases.
(i)
Royalty reductions.
(j)
Discretion of Secretary.
188a.
Surrender of leases.
189.
Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation.
190.
Oath; requirement; form; blanks.
191.
Disposition of moneys received.
191a.
Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases.
(a)
Distribution of late payment charges.
(b)
Effective date.
(c)
Prohibition against recoupment.
191b.
Collection of unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by lessees.
192.
Payment of royalties in oil or gas; sale of such oil or gas.
192a.
Cancellation or modification of contracts.
192b.
Application to contracts.
192c.
Rules and regulations governing issuance of certain leases; disposition of receipts.
193.
Disposition of deposits of coal, and so forth.
193a.
Preference right of United States to purchase coal for Army and Navy; price for coal; civil actions; jurisdiction.
194.
Repealed.
195.
Enforcement.
(a)
Violations.
(b)
Penalty.
(c)
Civil actions.
(d)
Corporations.
(e)
Remedies, fines, and imprisonment.
(f)
State civil actions.
196.
Cooperative agreements; delegation of authority.
SUBCHAPTER II-COAL
201.
Leases and exploration.
(a)
Division into tracts; bidding and award; negotiated sales on exercise of right-of-way permits; leases to public agencies; fair market value of leases; leases in National Forests; comprehensive land-use plans; notice of proposed lease offering.
(b)
Exploration licenses; term; rights and conditions; violations.
201–1 to 201b. Repealed or Omitted.
202.
Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit.
202a.
Consolidation of coal leases into logical mining unit.
(1)
Approval by Secretary; public hearing; definition.
(2)
Mining plan; requirements.
(3)
Conditions for approval.
(4)
Amendment to lease.
(5)
Leases issued before date of enactment of this Act.
(6)
Lessee required to form unit.
(7)
Required acreage.
(8)
Acreage limitations for coal leases not waived.
203.
Additional contiguous or cornering lands allowed lessees; application of production or mining plan requirements and minimum royalty provisions.
204.
Repealed.
205.
Consolidation of leases.
206.
Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease.
207.
Conditions of lease.
(a)
Term of lease; annual rentals; royalties; readjustment of conditions.
(b)
Diligent development and continued operation; suspension of condition on payment of advance royalties.
(c)
Operation and reclamation plan.
208.
Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit.
208–1.
Exploratory program for evaluation of known recoverable coal resources.
(a)
Authorization; purpose.
(b)
Seismic, geophysical, geochemical or stratigraphic drilling.
(c)
Exploratory drilling by party not under contract to United States; confidentiality of information prior to award of lease.
(d)
Availability to public of all data, information, maps, surveys; confidentiality of information purchased from commercial sources not under contract to United States prior to award of lease.
(e)
Information or data from Federal departments or agencies; confidentiality of proprietary information or data; utilization of Federal departments and agencies by agreement.
(f)
Publication of geological and geophysical maps and reports of lands offered for lease.
(g)
Implementation plan for coal lands exploration program; development and transmittal to Congress; contents.
(h)
Stratigraphic drilling; scope; statement of results.
208–2, 208a. Repealed.
209.
Suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties to promote development or operation; extension of lease on suspension of operations and production.
SUBCHAPTER III-PHOSPHATES
211.
Phosphate deposits.
(a)
Authorization to lease land; terms and conditions; acreage.
(b)
Prospecting permits; issuance; term; acreage; entitlement to lease.
(c)
Extension of term of permit.
212.
Surveys; royalties; time payable; annual rentals; term of leases; readjustment on renewals; minimum production; suspension of operation.
213.
Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease.
214.
Use of surface of other public lands; acreage; forest lands exception.
SUBCHAPTER IV-OIL AND GAS
221 to 222i. Omitted.
223.
Leases; amount and survey of land; term of lease; royalties and annual rental.
223a.
Repealed.
224.
Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease.
225.
Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation.
226.
Lease of oil and gas lands.
(a)
Authority of Secretary.
(b)
Lands within known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field; lands within special tar sand areas; competitive bidding; royalties.
(c)
Lands subject to leasing under subsection (b); first qualified applicant.
(d)
Annual rentals.
(e)
Primary terms.
(f)
Notice of proposed action; posting of notice; terms and maps.
(g)
Regulation of surface-disturbing activities; approval of plan of operations; bond or surety; failure to comply with reclamation requirements as barring lease; opportunity to comply with requirements.
(h)
National Forest System Lands.
(i)
Termination.
(j)
Drainage agreements; primary term of lease, extension.
(k)
Mining claims; suspension of running time of lease.
(l)
Exchange of leases; conditions.
(m)
Cooperative or unit plan; authority of Secretary of the Interior to alter or modify; communitization or drilling agreements; term of lease, conditions; Secretary to approve operating, drilling or development contracts, and subsurface storage.
(n)
Conversion of oil and gas leases and claims on hydrocarbon resources to combined hydrocarbon leases for primary term of 10 years; application.
(o)
Certain outstanding oil and gas deposits.
226–1.
Extension of noncompetitive oil or gas lease issued before September 2, 1960.
(a)
Lands not withdrawn from leasing.
(b)
Known and unknown geologic structures of producing fields.
(c)
Application requirement.
(d)
Commencement of actual drilling operations.
226–2.
Limitations for filing oil and gas contests.
226–3.
Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing.
(a)
Prohibition.
(b)
Exploration.
226a, 226b. Repealed.
226c.
Reduction of royalties under existing leases.
226d to 227. Omitted.
228.
Prospecting permits and leases to persons of lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions of; fraud of claimants.
229.
Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions.
229a.
Water struck while drilling for oil and gas.
(a)
Acquisition; condition in lease.
(b)
Prior leases.
(c)
Disposition.
(d)
Revolving fund.
(e)
Operations under lease not restricted.
230 to 233. Repealed.
233a.
Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties.
234 to 236. Repealed.
236a.
Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws.
236b.
Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected.
237.
Omitted.
SUBCHAPTER V-OIL SHALE
241.
Leases of lands.
(a)
Authorization; survey; terms, royalties and annual rentals; readjustments on renewals; rights of existing claimants; fraud of claimants.
(b)
Offer for lease; deposits other than oil shale; questioned validity because of location; preference rights.
(c)
Multiple use principal leases; gilsonite including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons.
(c)
Offsite leases.
(d)
Considerations governing issuance of offsite lease.
242.
Oil shale claims.
(a)
Notice.
(b)
Full patent.
(c)
Patent.
(d)
Election.
(e)
Effect of election.
(f)
Reclamation.
(g)
Reaffirmation of requirements.
(h)
Issuance of patents.
SUBCHAPTER VI-ALASKA OIL PROVISO
251.
Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants.
SUBCHAPTER VII-SODIUM
261.
Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.
262.
Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals.
263.
Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage.
SUBCHAPTER VIII-SULPHUR
271.
Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.
272.
Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees.
273.
Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental.
274.
Lands containing coal or other minerals.
275.
Laws applicable.
276.
Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only.
SUBCHAPTER IX-POTASH
281.
Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected.
282.
Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty.
283.
Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations.
284.
Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases.
285.
Laws applicable.
286.
Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases.
287.
Extension of prospecting permits.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 48, 49, 171, 351, 355, 505, 529, 530, 541e, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1256, 1292, 1721, 1721a of this title; title 10 section 7439; title 16 sections 90c–1, 460q–5, 460v–4, 460dd–2, 460ll–3, 460mm–1, 460uu–46, 544l, 3148, 3149, 3183; title 25 sections 398e, 459c, 459d, 640d–10; title 43 sections 299, 315f, 1608, 1633, 1714, 1747.