Volume 48
Public Law 73–405
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the leasing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.”
Approved June 6, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the leasing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act
Alaska coal lands.
Vol. 38, p. 745.
U.S.C., p. 1595.
approved October 20, 1914, entitled “An Act to provide for the leasing of coal lands in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes” (38 Stat. L. 741; U.S.C., title 48, secs. 432 to 452, inclusive), be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following section:
“Sec. 19.
In the event the Secretary of the Interior, in the interest of conservation, or for other satisfactory cause, shall direct, or shall assent to the suspension of operation and/or production of coal, or shall have heretofore so directed or assented, under any lease granted
Lessees relieved of acreage rentals.
under the terms of this Act, any payment of acreage rental prescribed by such lease likewise shall be suspended during such period of suspension of operations and/or production, and payment of any rental heretofore accrued during such period of suspension but remaining unpaid shall be waived; and the term of such lease shall
Term of lease extended.
be extended by adding thereto any such suspension period.”
Approved, June 6, 1934.