Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 7 — Lease of Mineral Deposits Within Acquired Lands
§ 360. Authority to manage certain mineral leases
Statutory text
Each department, agency and instrumentality of the United States which administers lands acquired by the United States with one or more existing mineral lease shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior the authority to administer such lease and to collect all receipts due and payable to the United States under the lease. In the case of lands acquired on or before , the authority to administer the leases and collect receipts shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior as expeditiously as practicable after . In the case of lands acquired after , such authority shall be vested with the Secretary at the time of acquisition. The provisions of section 355 of this title shall apply to all receipts derived from such leases where such receipts are due and payable to the United States under the lease in the same manner as such provisions apply to receipts derived from leases issued under the authority of this chapter. For purposes of this section, the term “existing mineral lease” means any lease in existence at the time land is acquired by the United States. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the existing surface management authority of any Federal agency.
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.
Energy Policy Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–486 title XXV § 2506(b) · 106 Stat. 2776
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 360
(Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 11, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title XXV, § 2506(b), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3106.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 11, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title XXV, § 2506(b), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3106.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Review and Extension.— Within 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall review the effect of any royalty reduction pursuant to subsection (a) on the production of coal. If the Secretary determines that such royalty reduction has had no significant adverse impact on coal production, upon a request by a lignite coal operator in the Fort Union region, the Secretary may grant an additional royalty reduction for a period of 10 years, provided that the total term of the reduced royalty granted pursuant to subsection (a) and this subsection for a tract or lease does not exceed a period of 20 years.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 11, as added Pub. L. 102–486, title XXV, § 2506(b), , 106 Stat. 3106.)