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1994 US Code
Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 23 - GEOTHERMAL STEAM AND ASSOCIATED GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
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Publication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 23 - GEOTHERMAL STEAM AND ASSOCIATED GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES |
Contains | sections 1001 to 1028 |
Date | 1994 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 4, 1995 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
- Sec. 1001 - Definitions
- Sec. 1002 - Lands subject to geothermal leasing
- Sec. 1002a - Repealed. Pub. L. 97-214, ยง7(16), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 174
- Sec. 1003 - Bids; competitive bidding; first application of qualified person without competitive bidding
- Sec. 1004 - Rents and royalties
- Sec. 1005 - Duration of leases
- Sec. 1006 - Acreage of geothermal lease; irregular subdivisions; State limitation; increase
- Sec. 1007 - Readjustment of lease terms and conditions
- Sec. 1008 - Byproducts: production or use; water for beneficial uses under State water laws; substantial beneficial production or use; modification or waiver; preexisting rights of lease, claim, or permit holders
- Sec. 1009 - Relinquishment of geothermal rights; effective date; release of lessee or his surety or bond; exceptions
- Sec. 1010 - Suspension of operations and production; extension of lease term for period of suspension; waiver, suspension or reduction of rental or royalty
- Sec. 1011 - Termination of leases; grounds; notice; correction of violations; hearing; correction period after administrative decision
- Sec. 1012 - Waiver, suspension, or reduction of rental or royalty
- Sec. 1013 - Surface land use for production, utilization, and conservation of geothermal resources
- Sec. 1014 - Lands subject to geothermal leasing
- Sec. 1015 - Citizenship requirement for lessees
- Sec. 1016 - Administration; multiple use of lands and resources; coexistence of other leases; reciprocal and reasonable operational interference between geothermal and other leases
- Sec. 1017 - Cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of geothermal pool, field, or like area; public interest; determination and certification; regulations; protection of parties in interest; authority respecting rate of prospecting, development, and production; five year review; leases excepted from control for purposes of State acreage limitation
- Sec. 1018 - Data from Federal agencies concerning conversion charges; confidential information
- Sec. 1019 - Disposal of moneys from sales, bonuses, royalties and rentals
- Sec. 1020 - Publication in Federal Register of known geothermal resource area lands; necessity of geothermal leases for development or production of geothermal resources in lands which the United States transferred with reservation of mineral rights
- Sec. 1021 - Federal exemption from State water laws
- Sec. 1022 - Waste, prevention; exclusiveness of provisions for acquisition of geothermal rights
- Sec. 1023 - Rules and regulations; scope of provisions
- Sec. 1024 - Disposal of land laws; reservation of geothermal resources and restriction on disposal of lands with geothermal resources; conveyances prior to December 24, 1970, unaffected
- Sec. 1025 - Federal reservation of certain mineral rights; extraction of minerals without substantial interference with geothermal production
- Sec. 1026 - Significant thermal features
- Sec. 1027 - Lands subject to prohibition on leasing
- Sec. 1028 - Hot dry rock geothermal energy
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