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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management

§ 1753. Relation to other laws

Statutory text

(a)

Supplemental nature of chapter

The penalties and authorities provided in this chapter are supplemental to, and not in derogation of, any penalties or authorities contained in any other provision of law.

(b)

Responsibilities of Secretary related to minerals on Federal and Indian lands

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce the responsibilities of the Secretary to ensure prompt and proper collection of revenues from coal, uranium and other energy and nonenergy minerals on Federal and Indian lands, or to restrain the Secretary from entering into cooperative agreements or other appropriate arrangements with States and Indian tribes to share royalty management responsibilities and activities for such minerals under existing authorities.

(c)

Authority and responsibilities of Inspector General and Comptroller General unaffected

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to enlarge, diminish, or otherwise affect the authority or responsibility of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior or of the Comptroller General of the United States.

(d)

Lands and land interests entrusted to Tennessee Valley Authority unaffected

No provision of this chapter impairs or affects lands and interests in land entrusted to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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 III § 304 · 96 Stat. 2447

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 1753

    Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 304, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2461

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 304, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2461

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 304. relation to other laws (a) The penalties and authorities provided in this Act are supplemental to, and not in derogation of, any penalties or authorities contained in any other provision of law. (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to reduce the responsibilities of the Secretary to ensure prompt and proper collection of revenues from coal, uranium and other energy and nonenergy minerals on Federal and Indian lands, or to restrain the Secretary from entering into cooperative agreements or other appropriate arrangements with States and Indian tribes to share royalty management responsibilities and activities for such minerals under existing authorities. (c) Except as expressly provided in subsection 302(b), nothing in this Act shall be construed to enlarge, diminish, or otherwise affect the authority or responsibility of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior or of the Comptroller General of the United States. (d) No provision of this Act impairs or affects lands and interests in land entrusted to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

  2. An Act to provide for the conservation of anthracite coal resources through measures of flood control and anthracite mine drainage, and for other purposes

    Pub. L. 105–362 title IX § 901(j)(2) · 112 Stat. 3280

    Substituted · 30 U.S.C. § 1753(c)

    Pub. L. 105–362 substituted “Nothing” for “Except as expressly provided in section 1752(b) of this title, nothing”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–362 substituted “Nothing” for “Except as expressly provided in section 1752(b) of this title, nothing”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) Conforming amendment.— Section 304(c) of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C.1753(c)) is amended by striking “Except as expressly provided in subsection 302(b), nothing” and inserting “Nothing”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–362 substituted “Nothing” for “Except as expressly provided in section 1752(b) of this title, nothing”.

Credits

1983–1998 · 2 acts
  1. 1983Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 304, , 96 Stat. 2461
  2. 1998Pub. L. 105–362, title IX, § 901(j)(2), , 112 Stat. 3290.
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(Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 304, , 96 Stat. 2461; Pub. L. 105–362, title IX, § 901(j)(2), , 112 Stat. 3290.)

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