Notes on leases and prospecting permits : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on leases and prospecting permits : US Code - Notes

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.
(a) In general.
(b) Administrative costs.
(c) Rentals received on or after August 8, 2005.
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) Leases.
(b) Exploration.
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 lands or deposits.
(a) In general.
(b) Terms and conditions.
(c) Royalties.
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) Bidding process; annual rental; posting period.
(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.
(p) Deadlines for consideration of applications for
permits.
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) In general.
(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.