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2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 3 - Oil and Gas Leases on Lands Other Than Tide and Submerged Lands › Section 6852.

6852. Whenever it appears to the commission that it is for the best interests of the State to lease any such lands for the production of oil or gas therefrom, or whenever a person who possesses the qualifications provided in this chapter makes written request therefor, the commission may offer the same for bidding at such times and in such parcels as the commission shall determine to be in the best interests of the State.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1945.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 3 - Oil and Gas Leases on Lands Other Than Tide and Submerged Lands › Section 6853.

6853. The commission may divide the lands within the tract proposed to be leased into parcels of convenient size and shape and shall prepare a form of lease therefor.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 3 - Oil and Gas Leases on Lands Other Than Tide and Submerged Lands › Section 6854.

6854. Lands, including the Tule Elk State Reserve located in Township 30 South, Range 24 East, MDB&M in Kern County, other than tide or submerged lands, belonging to the state and dedicated to a public use may be leased by the commission for the production of oil and gas in accordance with this article and this chapter insofar as not in conflict with this article.
Where those lands have been acquired for the use of a specific state agency, consent of this agency shall be obtained by the commission for occupation by a state lessee of the surface of the lands for drilling locations or producing facilities. The commission may lease those lands, including the Tule Elk State Reserve in Kern County, for the production of oil and gas without the consent of the state agency if development under the lease is made by slant drilling from surface locations on lands not under the control of the state agency. However, the commission shall consult with the Department of Parks and Recreation prior to approving a lease for the production of oil and gas underlying the Tule Elk State Reserve to ensure that the purposes for which the parklands were acquired are not adversely affected.
The commission may grant a subsurface oil and gas lease in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 6815 covering all or any portion of the Tule Elk State Reserve in Kern County for the production of oil and gas underlying the reserve by means of slant or directional drilling from surface locations outside of the reserve.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1218, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 3 - Oil and Gas Leases on Lands Other Than Tide and Submerged Lands › Section 6855.

6855. The proceeds of any lease for the extraction of any oil and gas from lands owned by the State, other than public lands or tide or submerged lands under the jurisdiction of the commission, property escheated to the State or held in trust, lands held by the State as tax-deeded property and lands acquired for state highway purposes, shall be paid into the General Fund in the State Treasury, regardless of whether such lease is executed pursuant to this chapter or any other provision of law.
(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 164.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6870.

6870. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no leases shall be let for the extraction of oil and gas from coastal tidelands or submerged lands in state waters within the Santa Barbara Channel unless the commission determines that such a lease will not result in the seepage or spillage of oil (either by finding that the safety and containment devices to be used are sufficient to prevent such seepage or spillage or that no seepage or spillage would result in any event) or in the destruction of scenic or aesthetic values.
(b) As used in this section, the Santa Barbara Channel is the area described as follows:
Beginning at the point of intersection of the ordinary high-water mark of the Pacific Ocean with the westerly point of Point Conception; thence in a generally easterly and southeasterly direction along said ordinary high-water mark to the westerly point of Point Mugu; thence in a generally southwesterly direction to the southwest tip of Anacapa Island; thence along the inland sides of Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel Islands to the most westerly part of San Miguel Island; thence in a northerly direction to the point of beginning; excluding the area described in subdivision (b) of Section 6871.2.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1530.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6871.

6871. Tide and submerged lands and beds of navigable rivers and lakes may be leased by the commission for the extraction of oil and gas in accordance with the provisions of this article and of this chapter insofar as not in conflict with the provisions of this article. No political subdivision of the State or any city or county or any official of either or any of them shall grant or issue any lease, license, easement, privilege, or permit vesting authority in any person to take or extract oil or gas from tide or submerged lands whether filled or unfilled of which the State is the owner or from which the State has the right to extract oil or gas, or both.
(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1724.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6871.3.

6871.3. Whenever it appears to the commission that it is for the best interests of the State to lease lands subject to the provisions of Section 6871.1 or 6877 of this code for the production of oil or gas therefrom, or whenever a person who possesses the qualifications provided in this chapter makes written request therefor, the commission may, subject to the provisions of Section 6871.4, offer the same for bidding at such times and in such parcels as the commission shall determine to be in the best interests of the State.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1945.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6871.4.

6871.4. The commission may divide the lands within the area proposed to be leased into parcels of convenient size and shape and shall prepare a form of lease or leases therefor embracing not to exceed 5,760 acres in any one lease.
(Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 2166.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6872.

6872. (a) If an application for oil and gas development in state waters that is determined to be incomplete by the commission continues to remain incomplete one year after the date of the first incomplete notice sent to the applicant by the commission, the application shall be considered withdrawn.
(b) If an application has been withdrawn pursuant to subdivision (a), the applicant may submit a new application.
(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 298, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2007.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6872.1.

6872.1. Whenever it appears to the commission that oil and gas deposits are known or believed to be contained in any such lands as are described in Section 6871.2, subdivision (b), of this code or in tide and submerged lands along the coast of the Pacific Ocean south of the northerly city limits of the City of Newport Beach in Orange County to the southerly boundary of the state, and are being drained by means of wells upon adjacent lands owned by others than the state, the commission shall thereupon be authorized and empowered to lease state-owned tide and submerged lands adjacent to any such wells for the production of oil and gas therefrom, either as a tract or in parcels of such size and shape as the commission shall determine but only within an area and to an extent necessary to offset such drainage of state-owned tide and submerged lands by any such wells upon adjacent lands owned by others.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1238.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6872.2.

6872.2. If the commission determines that any tide and submerged lands belonging to the state in the area hereinafter referred to should be drilled pursuant to the terms of Section 6872.1 of this code, then, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6874 of this code, in order to preserve and protect the highly developed recreational and residential area now referred to, the commission shall require that any well or wells drilled pursuant to the terms of any lease issued with respect to any part of the hereinafter described area be slant-drilled from an upland or littoral site to and into the subsurface of the tide or submerged lands covered by the lease. The area to which this section is applicable is the tide and submerged lands along the coast of the Pacific Ocean south of the northerly city limits of the City of Newport Beach in Orange County to the southerly boundary of the state.
(Amended by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1238.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6872.5.

6872.5. The commission may adjust the boundaries of existing leases to encompass all of a field partially contained within the existing lease subject to both of the following conditions:
(a) The commission makes all of the following findings:
(1) The adjustment will permit more efficient utilization of state resources.
(2) The number and size of existing offshore platforms will not be increased, except that modifications to a platform within the existing boundaries of a lease shall be permitted where the modifications are reasonably necessary for development of all of the resources within the reconfigured lease.
(3) The boundary adjustment will not require the construction or major modification of a refinery in this state to permit development of any increased production resulting from the boundary adjustment, unless that construction or major modification is to a field production facility servicing the lease.
(4) The boundary adjustment represents the environmentally least damaging feasible alternative for the extraction and production of affected resources.
(b) Those parts of the field within areas added to the existing lease may not be developed except from upland sites or from existing offshore facilities within the original lease boundaries.
(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 970, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6873.1.

6873.1. Filled lands shall include, but not be limited to, tide or submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers or lakes, reclaimed artificially through raising such lands above the highest probable elevation of the tides, or high water line on the river banks or shore, to form dry land, by placement of a fill or deposit of earth, rock, sand or other solid imperishable material. Such fill may be retained in place or protected by bulkheads, seawalls, revetments or similar enclosures and may be placed at any location approved by the commission under a lease heretofore or hereafter issued pursuant to this article.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1945.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6873.2.

6873.2. In carrying out the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 6873 and the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000)), the commission shall, prior to leasing tide and submerged lands or the beds of navigable rivers or lakes for oil and gas, hold at least one hearing on any draft environmental impact report prepared for the proposed lease. The hearing shall be held within a city or county near the area being considered for leasing. The commission shall give at least 30 days’ written notice regarding the public hearing to each city or county within or adjacent to the proposed lease area and shall publish the notice in the manner prescribed in Section 6834. The authority to hold hearings provided in this section may be delegated by the commission to its officers or employees.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 384, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6873.5.

6873.5. (a) In carrying out the requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 6873 and the California Environmental Quality Act, the commission shall, prior to the adoption of a form of lease for leasing offshore tide and submerged lands between the mean high tide line and the three-mile jurisdictional limit, consult with the Department of Fish and Game, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and representatives of the oil industry, representatives of fishermen operating within the area being considered for leasing. The commission shall hold at least one hearing on the draft environmental document prepared for the proposed lease in a jurisdiction of a local government within the coastal zone, as defined by Section 30103, near the area being considered for leasing. The commission shall give at least 30 days’ written notice regarding the public hearing to each city or county within or adjacent to the proposed lease area and shall publish the notice in the manner prescribed in Section 6834. The authority to hold hearings provided in this section may be delegated by the commission to its officers or employees.
(b) The commission shall consider the potential impacts of the proposed lease on the fisheries and marine habitat within the area being considered for leasing. The commission shall include in its consideration:
(1) The environmental document prepared for the proposed lease.
(2) Recommendations of the Department of Fish and Game, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the oil industry, and fishermen.
(3) The cooperative efforts of the oil industry and fishermen to develop plans to mitigate potential impacts.
(c) Fishery areas that should be considered for protection include established fishing grounds or critical spawning or nursery grounds as indicated by records of the Department of Fish and Game.
(d) The commission may impose terms, conditions, or operational requirements it deems necessary to protect fisheries, including, but not limited to, the exclusion of specified areas from development activities.
(e) This section shall not be construed as a limitation on slant or directional drilling under the excluded area from any location outside an excluded fishery area.
(Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 384, Sec. 3.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6874.

6874. Each bid shall be accompanied by information giving a description of the location or locations, structure or structures, from which the bidder proposes to drill. In awarding a lease, the commission shall not discriminate between bidders by prohibiting drilling from upland, littoral or riparian drill sites, or drilling from sites upon filled lands, whether contiguous or noncontiguous to the riparian or littoral lands or uplands, or upon any pier or platform or other fixed or floating structure in, on or over tide and submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers or lakes, with respect to which the State or other owner thereof has consented, or may thereafter consent, to such use provided, however, that in the event state-owned tide or submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers or lakes are determined by the commission to contain oil or gas deposits which are being drained by wells owned by others upon adjacent lands, and such state-owned tide and submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers or lakes cannot be developed by a particular method of exploration, development or operation without interfering with or impairing developed riverbank or shoreline, recreational or residential areas, then the commission may offer and award an oil and gas lease on such lands with a prohibition against said particular method of exploration, development or operation.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1945.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6875.

6875. If the Legislature has transferred to any city or county the administration of the trust, whether or not limited, under which tide or submerged lands or beds of navigable rivers and lakes are held by the State, the commission, pursuant to this chapter, may enter into agreements upon behalf of the State to compensate any such city or county for the use of surface drilling and operating sites upon such lands from the royalty or revenue to be derived by the State from oil and gas taken from such lands by lessees of the State.
Any such compensation shall include an amount sufficient reasonably to compensate any such city or county for any damage to or interference with the use or uses to which the surface of such lands are being or may be utilized by or upon behalf of such city or county. The consideration to the State in any such agreement shall include the right to a lessee of the State to carry on all operations on any such tidelands or beds of navigable rivers and lakes necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter and such terms and conditions as shall be determined by the commission to be in the interests of the State.
The consideration to the State in any such agreement shall also include a compromise, settlement and release of any and all claims and rights which such city or county has or may have against the State arising out of or in connection with the extraction and removal of oil and gas from such lands. All money paid to any city or county under this section shall be used by it solely in furtherance of the trust under which the administration of tide and submerged lands and beds of navigable rivers and lakes has been transferred to such city or county and for the purposes expressed in the act so transferring administration of such lands.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1945.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6876.

6876. Should it appear to the commission that any person, association of persons, or corporation, has drilled, or is making preparation to drill, wells upon or into tide or submerged lands of which the State is the owner, or from which the State has the right to extract oil or gas or both, for the extraction of oil or gas therefrom, other than pursuant to authority granted in accordance with this chapter, whether or not such person, association of persons, or corporation may be acting under purported authority, the commission shall cause an action to be instituted in the name of and upon behalf of the State in a court of appropriate jurisdiction, to enjoin the occupancy and operations upon or in such lands and to demand compensation for injury and damage, if any, to such lands; except that, should the drilling operations be conducted upon or in lands which have been filled and if such operations have been commenced prior to March 24, 1938, the commission, if it appears to be in the interests of the State, may, upon behalf of the State, issue a lease to any such person, association of persons, or corporation in accordance with the provisions of this chapter insofar as applicable, and upon a royalty basis, retrospective and prospective, which appears reasonable and just in the circumstances to the lessee and the State.
(Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1724.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6877.

6877. All the beds of navigable rivers and lakes belonging to the State may be leased pursuant to Section 6871.3 of this code for the production of oil and gas, subject to the same limitations and conditions imposed by this article, and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter insofar as not in conflict with this article.
(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1945.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6878.

6878. Nothing in this chapter limits the effect of any grant of tide or submerged lands made prior to June 11, 1938, to any city, county or other political subdivision, nor in any manner to prejudice whatever claim the state, on the one hand, or such city, county or political subdivision, on the other, may have in or to the right to extract or authorize the extraction of oil or gas or other minerals underlying such lands.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, no city, county or political subdivision to which the state has granted tide or submerged lands without reserving minerals shall enter into any lease or agreement for the extraction of oil, gas or other hydrocarbons from such tide and submerged lands within any area described in subdivisions (a) though (e), inclusive, of Section 6871.2 of this code, or from tide and submerged lands along the coast of the Pacific Ocean south of the northerly city limits of the City of Newport Beach in Orange County to the southerly boundary of the state until the State Lands Commission has made findings in accordance with the provisions of Section 6872 of this code regarding any lands within any area described in subdivisions (a), (c), (d) and (e) of Section 6871.2 of this code, or has made findings in accordance with the provisions of Section 6872.1 of this code regarding any lands within the area described in subdivision (b) of Section 6871.2 of this code, or has made findings in accordance with the provisions of Section 6872 of this code regarding any tide or submerged lands along the coast of the Pacific Ocean south of the northerly city limits of the City of Newport Beach in Orange County to the southerly boundary of the state.
Provided further that any lease or agreement for the extraction of oil and gas or other hydrocarbons from such granted tide or submerged lands authorized to be entered into by a county, city or political subdivision after necessary findings are made by the State Lands Commission as heretofore provided shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 6872.1 of this code in respect to any lands within the area described in subdivision (b) of Section 6871.2 of this code, and shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 6872.2 of this code in respect to any tide or submerged lands along the coast of the Pacific Ocean south of the northerly city limits of the City of Newport Beach in Orange County to the southerly boundary of the state.
(Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1793.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 4 - Oil and Gas Leases on Tide and Submerged Lands and Beds of Navigable Rivers and Lakes › Section 6880.

6880. (a) Contingent upon an appropriation of funds by the Legislature for this purpose, the commission shall develop, on or before December 31, 2024, a cost study that evaluates the fiscal impact of a voluntary relinquishment of any lease interests in actively producing state offshore oil and gas leases in state waters.
(b) The cost study shall consider at least all of the following factors:
(1) Expected duration of oil production at the time of leasing.
(2) State revenues received to date.
(3) Expected remaining life of the reservoir based on proven reserves.
(4) Reasonably anticipated unrealized lessee revenues and profits.
(5) Reasonably anticipated unrealized state revenues.
(6) Lessees’ decommissioning and restoration costs.
(c) (1) On or before December 31, 2023, the commission shall hold at least one public hearing at a properly noticed public commission meeting to discuss the cost study described in this section.
(2) After the hearing described in paragraph (1), on or before December 31, 2023, the commission shall provide a status update on the cost study to the Governor and the Legislature. The status update shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(A) A proposed outline of the cost study elements.
(B) Identified data gaps.
(C) Preliminary analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
(D) Any public comments received by the commission.
(d) (1) On or before December 31, 2024, the commission shall submit the cost study prepared pursuant to this section, including recommendations to advance the end of offshore oil and gas development consistent with the legislative findings and declarations of Section 1 of Assembly Bill 2257 of the 2021–22 Regular Session, to the Governor and the Legislature.
(2) The commission shall make the cost study available on its internet website.
(e) (1) The cost study submitted to the Legislature pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) and the status update submitted to the Legislature pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) (A) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the requirement to submit a report imposed pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) shall become inoperative on December 31, 2028.
(B) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the requirement to submit a report imposed pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) shall become inoperative on December 31, 2027.
(Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 692, Sec. 2. (AB 2257) Effective January 1, 2023.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6890.5.

6890.5. Notwithstanding any other law, when lands, other than tide and submerged lands, are owned by another state agency, the commission, when issuing permits and leases for the exploration, extraction, and removal of minerals, other than oil and gas or other hydrocarbon substances and geothermal resources, may agree that the state agency owning the land will receive additional lands or in-kind payments, the value of which shall be deducted from the money royalty, including land rental payments, or a percentage of the net profits from mineral extraction.
(Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 770, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6891.

6891. The commission may issue a prospecting permit, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, for lands which are not known mineral lands, to any qualified applicant, upon the payment to the commission of a reasonable charge, as determined by the commission, of not less than one dollar ($1) per acre for each acre in area embraced within the boundaries of the lands described in the permit. No permit shall be issued for any lands which have been classified by the commission prior to the application as containing commercially valuable mineral deposits. Upon receipt of an application for a permit, the commission shall determine whether the lands described therein are known mineral lands. If the commission determines that the lands are known mineral lands, it shall thereupon so classify them and shall reject the application for a prospecting permit.
Subject to such terms and conditions as the commission may determine to be in the best interest of the state, a prospecting permit shall give to the permittee the exclusive right for a period not exceeding two years to prospect for minerals other than oil and gas or other hydrocarbon substances upon lands wherein the mineral deposits belong to the state.
The commission may, in its discretion, extend the term of any permit for a period not exceeding one year, but the term of any permit, including extensions, shall be limited to a total of three years.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 649, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6895.

6895. (a) Upon establishing to the satisfaction of the commission that commercially valuable deposits of minerals have been discovered within the limits of any permit, the permittee shall receive priority for a mining lease over any other applicant seeking a lease for the land included in the prospecting permit. This priority shall expire after 365 days unless the permittee submits a complete lease application to mine the discovered minerals, in which case the priority shall expire upon the commission’s consideration or applicant’s withdrawal of the application. Mineral leases shall be limited to the minimum area required for mining. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the commission to issue a mineral lease.
(b) The lease shall provide for the payment of an annual rental of not less than fair market value, as determined by the commission. The lease shall also provide for payment, which may be taken in kind, of either a royalty, to be taken in money or in kind, at the option of the commission, of not less than 10 percent of the gross value of all mineral production from the leased lands, less any charges approved by the commission that were made or incurred with respect to transporting or processing the state’s royalty share of production, or a percentage, to be determined by the commission, of the net profits derived from mineral extraction operations under the lease. Payment as a royalty or as a percentage of net profits shall be specified in the permit or lease.
(c) If the lands for which a lease is sought are tide and submerged lands, the commission, in accordance with Section 6900, may divide the lands into the size and number of parcels as the commission determines will not substantially impair the public rights to navigation and fishing or interfere with the trust upon which the lands are held.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 120, Sec. 4. (AB 706) Effective January 1, 2024.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6896.

6896. Until the permittee applies for a lease as to that portion of the area described in the permit herein provided, the permittee shall pay to the state 20 percent of the gross value of the minerals secured from the lands embraced within the permit and sold or otherwise disposed of or held for sale or other disposition.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 120, Sec. 5. (AB 706) Effective January 1, 2024.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6897.

6897. (a) All deposits of minerals, other than oil, gas, and geothermal resources in lands belonging to the state, which have been classified by the commission as lands containing commercially valuable mineral deposits and all deposits of those minerals within lands embraced within a prospecting permit may be leased by the commission in either of the following ways:
(1) By competitive bidding to the highest qualified and responsible bidder. The bidding shall be on the basis of a cash bonus, royalty rate, net profit, or other single biddable factor, and shall be conducted under general regulations and in a form to be determined by the commission to be in the best interest of the state.
(2) By a negotiated lease or other agreement, if the lands are determined by the commission to be unsuitable for competitive bidding for reasons such as small size, irregular configuration, lack of access, or if a negotiated lease is in the best interest of the state.
(b) In addition to the payment of a royalty in money or in kind or a percentage of the net profits derived from mineral extraction operations provided therein, each bid and each lease shall also provide for an annual payment in advance of rent of not less than fair market value or a greater sum as the commission may specify.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 120, Sec. 6. (AB 706) Effective January 1, 2024.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6898.

6898. Leases under this article shall be for terms not to exceed 20 years.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 120, Sec. 7. (AB 706) Effective January 1, 2024.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6898.5.

6898.5. Notwithstanding Section 6898, any lease in effect on July 1, 1991, of lands, within the bed of Owens Lake for the development of minerals other than oil and gas and geothermal resources may be immediately extended by the commission for an additional 20 years beyond its current expiration date, with the subsequent lease renewal in accordance with Section 6898.
(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 520, Sec. 6.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6899.

6899. The commission shall prescribe additional terms and conditions, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, of permits and leases issued under this article as will in its opinion effectually protect the interests of the state in the mineral deposits reserved to it by this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 120, Sec. 8. (AB 706) Effective January 1, 2024.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas › Section 6900.

6900. (a) Notwithstanding Section 6890, the commission or a local trustee of granted public trust lands shall not grant leases or issue permits for the extraction or removal of hard minerals from state waters subject to tidal influence, except for waters situated east of the Carquinez Bridges on Interstate 80.
(b) (1) For purposes of this section, “hard minerals” means natural deposits of valuable minerals, including, but not limited to, metals and placer deposits of metals, nonmetallic minerals, gemstones, ores, gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, manganese, silica, chrome, platinum, tungsten, zirconium, titanium, garnet, and phosphorus.
(2) “Hard minerals” does not include rock, gravel, sand, silt, coal, oyster shells, or hydrocarbons.
(c) This section does not prohibit scientific research or collections conducted by, or on behalf of, an educational, scientific, or research institution or a governmental agency.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 433, Sec. 5. (AB 1832) Effective January 1, 2023.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6901.

6901. This article shall be known and may be cited as the Geothermal Resources Act.
(Added by renumbering Section 6902 by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1139.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6902.

6902. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that development of geothermal resources beneath state lands is an essential element in the development of additional energy sources for the State of California. It is further recognized by the Legislature that different parcels of state lands have varying degrees of potential for the successful development of geothermal resources. As some parcels display strong indications of geothermal resources and likelihood of commercially producible energy which could be let at competitive lease sale, and other parcels indicate potential but need additional exploration, and still other parcels have never been explored, the flexible leasing program established by this chapter is necessary to promote more rapid and extensive geothermal development on state lands.
(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1139.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6903.

6903. For the purposes of this chapter, “geothermal resources” shall mean the natural heat of the earth, the energy, in whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in, resulting from, or created by, or which may be extracted from, such natural heat, and all minerals in solution or other products obtained from naturally heated fluids, brines, associated gases, and steam, in whatever form, found below the surface of the earth, but excluding oil, hydrocarbon gas or other hydrocarbon substances.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1398.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6904.

6904. Permits and leases for exploration and development of geothermal resources on lands belonging to the state and leases for the development of geothermal resources reserved by the state may be issued by the commission as provided in this article. For purposes of this article, state lands shall be defined as all lands owned by the state, including school lands, lieu lands, proprietary lands, tidelands, submerged lands, swamp and overflowed lands, and beds of navigable rivers and lakes, and lands in which geothermal resources have been reserved to the state.
(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1139.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6905.

6905. Permits and leases may be issued pursuant to this article only to those who qualify for permits and leases under Section 6801.
(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1139.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6906.

6906. Administration of this article shall be under the principle of multiple use of public lands and resources, and shall allow coexistence of other permits or leases of the same lands for deposits of other minerals under applicable laws, and the existence of permits or leases issued pursuant to the provisions of this article shall not preclude other uses of the areas covered thereby. However, operations under such other permits or leases or such other uses shall not unreasonably interfere with or endanger operations under any permit or lease issued pursuant to this article, nor shall operations under permits or leases issued pursuant to the provisions of this article unreasonably interfere with or endanger operations under any permit or lease issued pursuant to the provisions of any other act. Nor shall this article be construed as superseding the authority which the head of any state department or agency has with respect to the management, protection, and utilization of the state lands and resources under his jurisdiction. The commission may prescribe in its rules and regulations those conditions it deems to be necessary for the protection of other resources.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1398.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6907.

6907. Where it is determined by the commission that the production or use of geothermal resources is also susceptible of economically producing other of the geothermal resources in commercially valuable quantities, and a market therefor exists, production of such other geothermal resources may be required by the commission.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 369, Sec. 18.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6909.

6909. The commission may grant nonexclusive geological or geophysical exploration permits for geothermal resources upon such terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe, but any such permit shall not give the permittee any preferential right to a geothermal resources lease.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1139.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6911.

6911. (a) Lands may be selected for lease by the commission and shall be leased by competitive bid on the basis of a cash bonus, net profit, or other single biddable factor.
(b) In leasing lands the commission may prescribe in the lease document an exploration and development program. The commission shall consider all applicable economic factors, including market conditions, and the cost of drilling for, producing, and utilizing geothermal resources.
(c) Lands so selected for lease by the commission shall be leased to the highest responsible qualified bidder under such rules and regulations as the commission may prescribe for notice to the public of terms and conditions of the sale, receipt of bid, and awarding of the lease.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1139.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6912.

6912. (a) In case of an application for a permit or lease covering lands which have been sold by the state, subject to a reservation by the state of the geothermal resources thereof, by any person other than the owner of the surface of those lands, the owner may, within four months from the date of service of notice of the application, file an application for a permit or lease. The notice, with a copy of the application, shall be served by the commission, by registered mail. If the owner files an application and is a qualified person and the commission determines that the permitting or leasing of the lands is in the best interest of the state, the owner’s application shall be granted subject to all the provisions of this article. If the owner fails to exercise the rights granted by this section, those rights shall terminate and the applicant shall be permitted to proceed with the application.
(b) In the event of a competitive lease sale, after the commission has determined the highest competitive bid thereon, the owner of the surface of those lands may within 30 days after notification by the commission, by registered mail, submit a bid identical to the highest acceptable bid, in which case the commission shall issue a lease to the owner. If the owner fails to file a bid within that time, the commission may proceed with the award of the bid to other than the owner.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 617, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6914.

6914. The holder of any geothermal resources permit or lease may quitclaim or relinquish his or her rights under that permit or lease pursuant to the provisions of Section 6804.1 of this code.
(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 742, Sec. 12. (SB 1493) Effective January 1, 2019.)
2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS › PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS › CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases › ARTICLE 5.5 - Geothermal Resources › Section 6915.

6915. Subject to the other provisions of this article, the permittee or lessee shall be entitled to use so much of the surface as is reasonably necessary as determined by the commission for the production and conservation of geothermal resources.
(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1398.)