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Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 USC Chapter 3A)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Document type
Legislation
Date
1920 (2020)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Energy, Forestry, Land & soil, Mineral resources
Keyword
Oil Natural gas Energy conservation/energy production Public forest National parks Protected area Lease Public land Ownership Urban land Agricultural land Coastal zone management Transfer Vested rights/existing rights Property rights Right of use Authorization/permit Procedural matters Servitude Tax/levy Royalties/fees Dispute settlement Cooperative/producer organization Indigenous peoples Traditional rights/customary rights Governance Minerals Mining Coal Exploration Research Non-governmental entity Business/industry/corporations Contract/agreement Enforcement/compliance
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This act concerns mineral leasing. It provides that deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type 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 provisions of this chapter shall also apply to all deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas in the lands of the United States, which lands may have been or may be disposed of under laws reserving to the United States such deposits, with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, subject to such conditions as are or may hereafter be provided by such laws reserving such deposits. The Secretary of the Interior shall reserve and may exercise the authority to cancel any prospecting permit upon failure by the permittee to exercise due diligence in the prosecution of the prospecting work in accordance with the terms and conditions stated in the permit, and shall insert in every such permit issued under the provisions of this chapter appropriate provisions for its cancellation by him.

Full text
English
Website
uscode.house.gov