United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 30. MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
Chapter 7. LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS |
§ 351. Definitions
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As used in this chapter “United States” includes Alaska. “Acquired lands” or “lands acquired by the United States” include all lands heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States to which the “mineral leasing laws” have not been extended, including such lands acquired under the provisions of the Act of
March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961, 16 U.S.C., sec. 552). “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior, “Mineral leasing laws” shall mean the Act ofOctober 20, 1914 (38 Stat. 741, 48 U.S.C., sec. 432); the Act ofFebruary 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437, 30 U.S.C., sec. 181); the Act ofApril 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 301, 30 U.S.C., sec. 271); the Act ofFebruary 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057, 30 U.S.C., sec. 281), and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts. “Lease” includes “prospecting permit” unless the context otherwise requires. The term “oil” shall embrace all nongaseous hydrocarbon substances other than those leasable as coal, oil shale, or gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons).
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Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97–78 inserted definition of “oil”.
Short Title
Act Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, § 1, 61 Stat. 913, provided:
Miscellaneous
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished
Definition of “outer Continental Shelf” with respect to jurisdiction of United States, and mineral leases on submerged lands of such shelf, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands.