Title 30, Chapter 3
Mineral Lands and Mining — 117 sections
- § 1 Section 1 - Extension of noncompetitive oil or gas lease issued before September 2, 1960
- § 2 Section 2 - Limitations for filing oil and gas contests
- § 3 Section 3 - Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing
- § 71 Section 71 - Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acre
- § 72 Section 72 - Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation
- § 73 Section 73 - Presentation of claims
- § 74 Section 74 - Number of coal land entries; other entries upon noncompliance with conditions
- § 75 Section 75 - Conflicting claims upon coal lands; rules and regulations
- § 76 Section 76 - Reservation of rights upon coal lands; sale of certain mining lands
- § 77 Section 77 - Alabama coal lands; agricultural entry
- § 81 Section 81 - Rights of entrymen of lands subsequently classified as coal lands; disposal of coal deposits
- § 82 Section 82 - New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal
- § 83 Section 83 - Homestead or desert-land and other entries
- § 84 Section 84 - Applications for entry
- § 85 Section 85 - Patents for lands, with reservation of coal; disposal of coal deposits
- § 86 Section 86 - Disposition of lands in Indian reservations with reservation of coal; examination and appraisal of lands
- § 87 Section 87 - Statements in application; patents
- § 88 Section 88 - Disposition of coal by United States
- § 89 Section 89 - Disposition of proceeds
- § 90 Section 90 - Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts
- § 101 Section 101 - Omitted
- § 102 Section 102 - Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner
- § 103 Section 103 - Patents for oil or gas lands not denied because of transfer before discovery of oil or gas; acreage limitation; nonapplication to withdraw lands
- § 104 Section 104 - Agreements with applicants for patents as to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund
- § 113 Section 113 - Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14 , § 1, 46 Stat. 1028
- § 121 Section 121 - Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application
- § 122 Section 122 - Patents; reservation in the United States of reserved deposits; acquisition of right to remove deposits; application for entry to disprove classification
- § 123 Section 123 - Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to
- § 124 Section 124 - Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing sodium or sulphur
- § 125 Section 125 - Patents in North Platte Reclamation Project; mineral rights; subrogation
- § 131 Section 131 - Omitted
- § 152 Section 152 - Repealed. Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66 , § 6, 44 Stat. 1058
- § 161 Section 161 - Entry of building-stone lands; previous law unaffected
- § 162 Section 162 - Entry of saline lands; limitation
- § 171 Section 171 - Disposal as agricultural lands
- § 172 Section 172 - Certain Alabama lands subject to homestead entry
- § 181 Section 181 - Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium rights reserved
- § 182 Section 182 - Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc.
- § 183 Section 183 - Cancellation of prospecting permits
- § 184 Section 184 - Limitations on leases held, owned or controlled by persons, associations or corporations
- § 184a Section 184a - Authorization of States to include in agreements for conservation of oil and gas resources lands acquired from United States
- § 185 Section 185 - Rights-of-way for pipelines through Federal lands
- § 186 Section 186 - Reservation of easements or rights-of-way for working purposes; reservation of right to dispose of surface of lands; determination before offering of lease; easement periods
- § 187 Section 187 - Assignment or subletting of leases; relinquishment of rights under leases; conditions in leases for protection of diverse interests in operation of mines, wells, etc.; State laws not impaired
- § 187a Section 187a - Oil or gas leases; partial assignments
- § 187b Section 187b - Oil or gas leases; written relinquishment of rights; release of obligations
- § 188 Section 188 - Failure to comply with provisions of lease
- § 188a Section 188a - Surrender of leases
- § 189 Section 189 - Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation
- § 190 Section 190 - Oath; requirement; form; blanks
- § 191 Section 191 - Disposition of moneys received
- § 191b Section 191b - Collection of unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by lessees
- § 191a Section 191a - Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases
- § 192a Section 192a - Cancellation or modification of contracts
- § 192 Section 192 - Payment of royalties in oil or gas; sale of such oil or gas
- § 192b Section 192b - Application to contracts
- § 192c Section 192c - Rules and regulations governing issuance of certain leases; disposition of receipts
- § 193 Section 193 - Disposition of deposits of coal, and so forth
- § 193a Section 193a - Preference right of United States to purchase coal for Army and Navy; price for coal; civil actions; jurisdiction
- § 194 Section 194 - Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554 , § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966 , 80 Stat. 644
- § 195 Section 195 - Enforcement
- § 196 Section 196 - Cooperative agreements; delegation of authority
- § 201 Section 201 - Leases and exploration
- § 201a Section 201a - Repealed. June 3, 1948, ch. 379 , § 8, 62 Stat. 291
- § 201b Section 201b - Omitted
- § 202 Section 202 - Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit
- § 202a Section 202a - Consolidation of coal leases into logical mining unit
- § 203 Section 203 - Additional lands or deposits
- § 204 Section 204 - Repealed. Pub. L. 94–377 , § 13(a), Aug. 4, 1976 , 90 Stat. 1090
- § 205 Section 205 - Consolidation of leases
- § 206 Section 206 - Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease
- § 207 Section 207 - Conditions of lease
- § 208 Section 208 - Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit
- § 208a Section 208a - Repealed. Pub. L. 97–468, title VI , § 615(a)(3), Jan. 14, 1983 , 96 Stat. 2578
- § 209 Section 209 - Suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties to promote development or operation; extension of lease on suspension of operations and production
- § 211 Section 211 - Phosphate deposits
- § 212 Section 212 - Surveys; royalties; time payable; annual rentals; term of leases; readjustment on renewals; minimum production; suspension of operation
- § 213 Section 213 - Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease
- § 214 Section 214 - Use of surface of other public lands; acreage; forest lands exception
- § 222i Section 222i - Omitted
- § 223a Section 223a - Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916 , § 14, 60 Stat. 958
- § 223 Section 223 - Leases; amount and survey of land; term of lease; royalties and annual rental
- § 224 Section 224 - Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease
- § 225 Section 225 - Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation
- § 226 Section 226 - Lease of oil and gas lands
- § 226b Section 226b - Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916 , § 14, 60 Stat. 958
- § 226c Section 226c - Reduction of royalties under existing leases
- § 226e Section 226e - Omitted
- § 227 Section 227 - Omitted
- § 228 Section 228 - Prospecting permits and leases to persons of lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions of; fraud of claimants
- § 229 Section 229 - Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions
- § 229a Section 229a - Water struck while drilling for oil and gas
- § 233 Section 233 - Repealed. June 22, 1948, ch. 605 , § 3, 62 Stat. 576
- § 233a Section 233a - Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties
- § 236 Section 236 - Repealed. June 22, 1948, ch. 605 , § 3, 62 Stat. 576
- § 236a Section 236a - Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws
- § 236b Section 236b - Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected
- § 237 Section 237 - Omitted
- § 241 Section 241 - Leases of lands
- § 242 Section 242 - Oil shale claims
- § 251 Section 251 - Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants
- § 261 Section 261 - Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage
- § 262 Section 262 - Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals
- § 263 Section 263 - Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage
- § 271 Section 271 - Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage
- § 272 Section 272 - Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees
- § 273 Section 273 - Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental
- § 274 Section 274 - Lands containing coal or other minerals
- § 275 Section 275 - Laws applicable
- § 276 Section 276 - Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only
- § 281 Section 281 - Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected
- § 282 Section 282 - Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty
- § 283 Section 283 - Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations
- § 284 Section 284 - Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases
- § 285 Section 285 - Laws applicable
- § 286 Section 286 - Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases
- § 287 Section 287 - Extension of prospecting permits