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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 7 — Lease of Mineral Deposits Within Acquired Lands

§ 359. Rules and regulations

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter, which rules and regulations shall be the same as those prescribed under the mineral leasing laws to the extent that they are applicable.

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. 80–513 § 10 · 61 Stat. 913

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 359

    (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 10, 61 Stat. 915.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 10, 61 Stat. 915.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe such Rules and regulations. rules and regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act, which rules and regulations shall be the same as those prescribed under the mineral leasing laws to the extent that they are applicable.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

For definition of “mineral leasing laws”, see section 351 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97–100, title II, § 201, , 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See House Report No. 97–315, pp. 25, 26, .

Credits

(Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 10, 61 Stat. 915.)

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