Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management
§ 1723. Rewards
Statutory text
Where amounts representing royalty or other payments owed to the United States with respect to any oil and gas lease on Federal lands or the Outer Continental Shelf are recovered pursuant to any action taken by the Secretary under this chapter as a result of information provided to the Secretary by any person, the Secretary is authorized to pay to such person an amount equal to not more than 10 percent of such recovered amounts. The preceding sentence shall not apply to information provided by an officer or employee of the United States, an officer or employee of a State or Indian tribe acting pursuant to a cooperative agreement or delegation under this chapter, or any person acting pursuant to a contract authorized by this chapter.
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.
Pub. L. 97–451 title I § 113 · 96 Stat. 2447
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1723
(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 113, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2456.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 113, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2456.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 113. rewards Where amounts representing royalty or other payments owed to the United States with respect to any oil and gas lease on Federal lands or the Outer Continental Shelf are recovered pursu-ant to any action taken by the Secretary under this Act as a result of information provided to the Secretary by any person, the Secretary is authorized to pay to such person an amount equal to not more than 10 percent of such recovered amounts. The preceding sentence shall not apply to information provided by an officer or employee of the United States, an officer or employee of a State or Indian tribe acting pursuant to a cooperative agreement or delegation under this Act, or any person acting pursuant to a contract authorized by this Act.
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