Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources
§ 1424. Monitoring of activities of licensees and permittees
Statutory text
Each license and permit issued under this subchapter shall require the licensee or permittee—
to allow the Administrator to place appropriate Federal officers or employees as observers aboard vessels used by the licensee or permittee in exploration or commercial recovery activities (A) to monitor such activities at such time, and to such extent, as the Administrator deems reasonable and necessary to assess the effectiveness of the terms, conditions, and restrictions of the license or permit, and (B) to report to the Administrator whenever such officers or employees have reason to believe there is a failure to comply with such terms, conditions, and restrictions;
to cooperate with such officers and employees in the performance of monitoring functions; and
to monitor the environmental effects of the exploration and commercial recovery activities in accordance with guidelines issued by the Administrator and to submit such information as the Administrator finds to be necessary and appropriate to assess environmental impacts and to develop and evaluate possible methods of mitigating adverse environmental effects.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act
Pub. L. 96–283 title I § 114 · 94 Stat. 553
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1424
(Pub. L. 96–283, title I, § 114, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 572.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–283, title I, § 114, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 572.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 114. MONITORING OF ACTIVITIES OF LICENSEES AND PERMITTEES. Each license and permit issued under this title shall require the licensee or permittee— (1) to allow the Administrator to place appropriate Federal officers or employees as observers aboard vessels used by the licensee or permittee in exploration or commercial recovery activities (A) to monitor such activities at such time, and to such extent, as the Administrator deems reasonable and necessary to assess the effectiveness of the terms, conditions, and restrictions of the license or permit, and (B) to report to the Administrator whenever such officers or employees have reason to believe there is a failure to comply with such terms, conditions, and restrictions; (2) to cooperate with such officers and employees in the performance of monitoring functions; and (3) to monitor the environmental effects of the exploration and commercial recovery activities in accordance with guidelines issued by the Administrator and to submit such information as the Administrator finds to be necessary and appropriate to assess environmental impacts and to develop and evaluate possible methods of mitigating adverse environmental effects.
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