Page 37 TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING § 181

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226–2. Limitations for filing oil and gas contests.

226–3. Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing.

(a) Prohibition.

(b) Exploration.

226a, 226b. Repealed.

226c. Reduction of royalties under existing leases.

226d to 227. Omitted.

228. Prospecting permits and leases to persons of

lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions

of; fraud of claimants.

229. Preference right to permits or leases of

claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions.

229a. Water struck while drilling for oil and gas.

(a) Acquisition; condition in lease.

(b) Prior leases.

(c) Disposition.

(d) Revolving fund.

(e) Operations under lease not restricted.

230 to 233. Repealed.

233a. Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties.

234 to 236. Repealed.

236a. Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval

oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws.

236b. Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected.

237. Delinquent royalty accounts under leases regulating development of oil and gas on Federal lands; recommendations for corrective

action.

SUBCHAPTER V—OIL SHALE

241. Leases of lands.

(a) Authorization; survey; terms, royalties and annual rentals; readjustments on renewals; rights of existing claimants; fraud of claimants.

(b) Offer for lease; deposits other than oil

shale; questioned validity because

of location; preference rights.

(c) Multiple use principal leases; gilsonite including all vein-type solid

hydrocarbons.

(c) Offsite leases.

(d) Considerations governing issuance of

offsite lease.

242. Oil shale claims.

(a) Notice.

(b) Full patent.

(c) Patent.

(d) Election.

(e) Effect of election.

(f) Reclamation.

(g) Reaffirmation of requirements.

(h) Issuance of patents.

SUBCHAPTER VI—ALASKA OIL PROVISO

251. Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands;

terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants.

SUBCHAPTER VII—SODIUM

261. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.

262. Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals.

263. Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands

for camp sites, and other purposes; annual

rentals; acreage.

SUBCHAPTER VIII—SULPHUR

271. Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage.

272. Leases to permittees; privileges extended to

oil and gas permittees.

273. Lease of lands not covered by permits or

leases; acreage; rental.

274. Lands containing coal or other minerals.

275. Laws applicable.

276. Application of subchapter to Louisiana and

New Mexico only.

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SUBCHAPTER IX—POTASH

281. Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates,

carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of

potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected.

282. Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty.

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. Lands containing coal or other minerals in

addition to potassium deposits; issuance of

prospecting permits and leases; covenants

in potassium leases.

285. Laws applicable.

286. Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases.

287. Extension of prospecting permits.

CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This chapter is referred to in sections 48, 49, 171, 351,

355, 505, 529, 530, 541e, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1256, 1292, 1721,

1721a of this title; title 10 section 7439; title 16 sections

90c–1, 460q–5, 460v–4, 460dd–2, 460ll–3, 460mm–1, 460uu–46,

544l, 3148, 3149, 3183; title 25 sections 398e, 459c, 459d,

640d–10; title 43 sections 299, 315f, 1608, 1633, 1714, 1747.

SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 181. Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium

rights reserved

Deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all veintype solid hydrocarbons), or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United

States, including those in national forests, but

excluding lands acquired under the Appalachian

Forest Act, approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961),

and those in incorporated cities, towns, and villages and in national parks and monuments,

those acquired under other Acts subsequent to

February 25, 1920, and lands within the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves, except as hereinafter provided, shall be subject to disposition in

the form and manner provided by this chapter to

citizens of the United States, or to associations

of such citizens, or to any corporation organized

under the laws of the United States, or of any

State or Territory thereof, or in the case of coal,

oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities. Citizens

of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges

to citizens or corporations of this country, shall

not by stock ownership, stock holding, or stock

control, own any interest in any lease acquired

under the provisions of this chapter.

The term ‘‘oil’’ shall embrace all nongaseous

hydrocarbon substances other than those substances leasable as coal, oil shale, or gilsonite

(including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons).

The term ‘‘combined hydrocarbon lease’’ shall

refer to a lease issued in a special tar sand area

pursuant to section 226 of this title after November 16, 1981.

The term ‘‘special tar sand area’’ means (1) an

area designated by the Secretary of the Interior’s orders of November 20, 1980 (45 FR

76800–76801) and January 21, 1981 (46 FR 6077–6078)

as containing substantial deposits of tar sand.

The United States reserves the ownership of

and the right to extract helium from all gas pro-