Title 30, Chapter 3 — Lands Containing Coal, Oil, Gas, Salts, Asphaltic Materials, Sodium, Sulphur, and Building Stone

Entry of unappropriated or unreserved Federal coal lands; eligibility; application; acreage limitation; price per acre

Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation

Presentation of claims

Number of coal land entries; other entries upon noncompliance with conditions

Conflicting claims upon coal lands; rules and regulations

Reservation of rights upon coal lands; sale of certain mining lands

Alabama coal lands; agricultural entry

Rights of entrymen of lands subsequently classified as coal lands; disposal of coal deposits

New or supplemental patents, in case of lands subsequently classified as noncoal

Homestead or desert-land and other entries

Applications for entry

Patents for lands, with reservation of coal; disposal of coal deposits

Disposition of lands in Indian reservations with reservation of coal; examination and appraisal of lands

Statements in application; patents

Disposition of coal by United States

Disposition of proceeds

Selection of coal lands by States; sale in isolated or disconnected tracts

Omitted

Assessment work on contiguous oil lands, located as claims, of same owner

Patents for oil or gas lands not denied because of transfer before discovery of oil or gas; acreage limitation; nonapplication to withdraw lands

Agreements with applicants for patents as to disposition of oil or gas, or proceeds thereof, pending determination of title; Navy Petroleum Fund

Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, § 1, 46 Stat. 1028

Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, or gas; reservations to United States; application

Patents; reservation in the United States of reserved deposits; acquisition of right to remove deposits; application for entry to disprove classification

Persons locating lands subsequently withdrawn or classified; patents to

Agricultural entry or purchase of lands withdrawn or classified as containing sodium or sulphur

Patents in North Platte Reclamation Project; mineral rights; subrogation

Omitted

Repealed. Feb. 7, 1927, ch. 66, § 6, 44 Stat. 1058

Entry of building-stone lands; previous law unaffected

Entry of saline lands; limitation

Disposal as agricultural lands

Certain Alabama lands subject to homestead entry

Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium rights reserved

Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc.

Cancellation of prospecting permits

Limitations on leases held, owned or controlled by persons, associations or corporations

Authorization of States to include in agreements for conservation of oil and gas resources lands acquired from United States

Rights-of-way for pipelines through Federal lands

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

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

Oil or gas leases; partial assignments

Oil or gas leases; written relinquishment of rights; release of obligations

Failure to comply with provisions of lease

Surrender of leases

Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation

Oath; requirement; form; blanks

Disposition of moneys received

Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases

Collection of unpaid and underpaid royalties and late payment interest owed by lessees

Payment of royalties in oil or gas; sale of such oil or gas

Cancellation or modification of contracts

Application to contracts

Rules and regulations governing issuance of certain leases; disposition of receipts

Disposition of deposits of coal, and so forth

Preference right of United States to purchase coal for Army and Navy; price for coal; civil actions; jurisdiction

Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 644

Enforcement

Cooperative agreements; delegation of authority

Leases and exploration

Repealed. Pub. L. 94–377, § 5(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1086

Repealed. June 3, 1948, ch. 379, § 8, 62 Stat. 291

Omitted

Common carriers; limitations of lease or permit

Consolidation of coal leases into logical mining unit

Additional lands or deposits

Repealed. Pub. L. 94–377, § 13(a), Aug. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1090

Consolidation of leases

Noncontiguous coal or phosphate tracts in single lease

Conditions of lease

Permits to take coal for local domestic needs without royalty payments; corporation exclusion; area to municipalities for household use without profit

Exploratory program for evaluation of known recoverable coal resources

Repealed. Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1091(e), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 722

Repealed. Pub. L. 97–468, title VI, § 615(a)(3), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2578

Suspension, waiver, or reduction of rents or royalties to promote development or operation; extension of lease on suspension of operations and production

Phosphate deposits

Surveys; royalties; time payable; annual rentals; term of leases; readjustment on renewals; minimum production; suspension of operation

Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease

Use of surface of other public lands; acreage; forest lands exception

Omitted

Leases; amount and survey of land; term of lease; royalties and annual rental

Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 14, 60 Stat. 958

Payments for oil or gas taken prior to application for lease

Condition of lease, forfeiture for violation

Leasing of oil and gas parcels

Extension of noncompetitive oil or gas lease issued before September 2, 1960

Limitations for filing oil and gas contests

Lands not subject to oil and gas leasing

Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 14, 60 Stat. 958

Reduction of royalties under existing leases

Omitted

Omitted

Prospecting permits and leases to persons of lands not withdrawn; terms and conditions of; fraud of claimants

Preference right to permits or leases of claimants of lands bona fide entered as agricultural land; terms and conditions

Water struck while drilling for oil and gas

Repealed. June 22, 1948, ch. 605, § 3, 62 Stat. 576

Permits or leases of certain lands in Okla­homa; retention of royalties

Repealed. June 22, 1948, ch. 605, § 3, 62 Stat. 576

Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws

Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected

Omitted

Leases of lands

Oil shale claims

Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants

Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

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

Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage

Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees

Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental

Lands containing coal or other minerals

Laws applicable

Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only

Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected

Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty

Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations

Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases

Laws applicable

Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases

Extension of prospecting permits