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Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 5 - LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY (§§ 301 - 306)
Section 304 - Provisions authorized in lease
LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY - 30 U.S.C. § 304 (2012)
§304. Provisions authorized in lease
Any lease granted by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to this chapter may, in the discretion of said Secretary, contain a provision giving the lessee the right, with the approval of said Secretary, to shut down the operation of any well or wells the operation of which has become unprofitable, to resume operations when such resumption may result in profit, and to abandon any well or wells that cease to produce oil and/or gas in paying quantities.
(May 21, 1930, ch. 307, §4, 46 Stat. 374.)
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