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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits

§ 191b. Collection of unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by lessees

Statutory text

Beginning in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, the Secretary shall take appropriate action to collect unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by Federal and Indian mineral lessees and other royalty payors on amounts received in settlement or other resolution of disputes under, and for partial or complete termination of, sales agreements for minerals from Federal and Indian leases.

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. 104–134 title I § 101(c)(tI) · 110 Stat. 1321

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 191b

    Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(c) [title I], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–156, 1321–167

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(c) [title I], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–156, 1321–167

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Section 101. For programs, projects or activities in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, provided as follows, to be effective as if it had been enacted into law as the regular appropriations Act:

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Similar Provisions

Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation act:

Pub. L. 103–332, title I, , 108 Stat. 2508.

Credits

1996 · 2 acts
  1. 1996Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(c) [title I], , 110 Stat. 1321–156, 1321–167
  2. 1996renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), , 110 Stat. 1327.
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(Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101(c) [title I], , 110 Stat. 1321–156, 1321–167; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), , 110 Stat. 1327.)

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