Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources
§ 1444. Disclaimer of obligation to pay compensation
Statutory text
Sections 1441 and 1442 of this title do not create or express any legal or moral obligation on the part of the United States Government to compensate any person for any impairment of the value of that person’s investment in any operation for exploration or commercial recovery under subchapter I which might occur in connection with the entering into force of an international agreement with respect to the United States.
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 II § 204 · 94 Stat. 553
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1444
(Pub. L. 96–283, title II, § 204, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 576.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–283, title II, § 204, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 576.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 204. DISCLAIMER OF OBLIGATION TO PAY COMPENSATION. Sections 201 and 202 of this Act do not create or express any legal or moral obligation on the part of the United States Government to compensate any person for any impairment of the value of that person’s investment in any operation for exploration or commercial recovery under title I which might occur in connection with the entering into force of an international agreement with respect to the United States.
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