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One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen 

An Act 

To clarify authority granted under the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to define the exterior 

boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, 

and for other purposes’’. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hill Creek Cultural Preservation 

and Energy Development Act’’. 

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY. 

The Act entitled ‘‘An Act to define the exterior boundary of 

the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, 

and for other purposes’’, approved March 11, 1948 (62 Stat. 72), 

as amended by the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Act extending 

the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation 

in the State of Utah so as to authorize such State to exchange 

certain mineral lands for other lands mineral in character’’ approved 

August 9, 1955, (69 Stat. 544), is further amended by adding 

at the end the following: 

‘‘SEC. 5. In order to further clarify authorizations under this 

Act, the State of Utah is hereby authorized to relinquish to the 

United States, for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah 

and Ouray Reservation, State school trust or other State-owned 

subsurface mineral lands located beneath the surface estate delineated in Public Law 440 (approved March 11, 1948) and south 

of the border between Grand County, Utah, and Uintah County, 

Utah, and select in lieu of such relinquished lands, on an acrefor-acre basis, any subsurface mineral lands of the United States 

located beneath the surface estate delineated in Public Law 440 

(approved March 11, 1948) and north of the border between Grand 

County, Utah, and Uintah County, Utah, subject to the following 

conditions: 

‘‘(1) RESERVATION BY UNITED STATES.—The Secretary of 

the Interior shall reserve an overriding interest in that portion 

of the mineral estate comprised of minerals subject to leasing 

under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 171 et seq.) in any 

mineral lands conveyed to the State. 

‘‘(2) EXTENT OF OVERRIDING INTEREST.—The overriding 

interest reserved by the United States under paragraph (1) 

shall consist of— 

‘‘(A) 50 percent of any bonus bid or other payment 

received by the State as consideration for securing any 

lease or authorization to develop such mineral resources; 
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‘‘(B) 50 percent of any rental or other payments 

received by the State as consideration for the lease or 

authorization to develop such mineral resources; 

‘‘(C) a 6.25 percent overriding royalty on the gross 

proceeds of oil and gas production under any lease or 

authorization to develop such oil and gas resources; and 

‘‘(D) an overriding royalty on the gross proceeds of 

production of such minerals other than oil and gas, equal 

to 50 percent of the royalty rate established by the Secretary of the Interior by regulation as of October 1, 2011. 

‘‘(3) RESERVATION BY STATE OF UTAH.—The State of Utah 

shall reserve, for the benefit of its State school trust, an overriding interest in that portion of the mineral estate comprised 

of minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act 

(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) in any mineral lands relinquished by 

the State to the United States. 

‘‘(4) EXTENT OF OVERRIDING INTEREST.—The overriding 

interest reserved by the State under paragraph (3) shall consist 

of— 

‘‘(A) 50 percent of any bonus bid or other payment 

received by the United States as consideration for securing 

any lease or authorization to develop such mineral 

resources on the relinquished lands; 

‘‘(B) 50 percent of any rental or other payments 

received by the United States as consideration for the 

lease or authorization to develop such mineral resources; 

‘‘(C) a 6.25 percent overriding royalty on the gross 

proceeds of oil and gas production under any lease or 

authorization to develop such oil and gas resources; and 

‘‘(D) an overriding royalty on the gross proceeds of 

production of such minerals other than oil and gas, equal 

to 50 percent of the royalty rate established by the Secretary of the Interior by regulation as of October 1, 2011. 

‘‘(5) NO OBLIGATION TO LEASE.—Neither the United States 

nor the State shall be obligated to lease or otherwise develop 

oil and gas resources in which the other party retains an 

overriding interest under this section. 

‘‘(6) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary of the 

Interior is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with 

the State and the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray 

Reservation to facilitate the relinquishment and selection of 
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lands to be conveyed under this section, and the administration 

of the overriding interests reserved hereunder.’’. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.