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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management

§ 1715. Explanation of payments

Statutory text

(a)

Description, period, source, etc., of payments to States or Indians

When any payment (including amounts due from receipt of any royalty, bonus, interest charge, fine, or rental) is made by the United States to a State with respect to any oil or gas lease on Federal lands or is deposited in the appropriate Indian account on behalf of an Indian tribe or Indian allottee with respect to any oil and gas lease on Indian lands, there shall be provided, together with such payment, a description of the type of payment being made, the period covered by such payment, the source of such payment, production amounts, the royalty rate, unit value and such other information as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the recipient State, Indian tribe, or Indian allottee.

(b)

Effective date

This section shall take effect with respect to payments made after , unless the Secretary, by rule, prescribes an earlier effective date.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 97–451 title I § 105 · 96 Stat. 2447

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1715

    (Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 105, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2452.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 105, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2452.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 105. explanation of payments (a) When any payment (including amounts due from receipt of any royalty, bonus, interest charge, fine, or rental) is made by the United States to a State with respect to any oil or gas lease on Federal lands or is deposited in the appropriate Indian account on behalf of an Indian tribe or Indian allottee with respect to any oil and gas lease on Indian lands, there shall be provided, together with such payment, a description of the type of payment being made, the period covered by such payment, the source of such payment, production amounts, the royalty rate, unit value and such other information as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the recipient State, Indian tribe, or Indian allottee. (b) This section shall take effect with respect to payments made after October 1, 1983, unless the Secretary, by rule, prescribes an earlier effective date.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 105, , 96 Stat. 2452.)

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