30 U.S.C. § 1002
Lands subject to geothermal leasing
Subject to the provisions of section 1014 of this title, the Secretary of the Interior may issue leases for the development and utilization of geothermal resources (1) in lands administered by him, including public, withdrawn, and acquired lands, (2) in any national forest or other lands administered by the Department of Agriculture through the Forest Service, including public, withdrawn, and acquired lands, and (3) in lands which have been conveyed by the United States subject to a reservation to the United States of the geothermal resources therein.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 8
cases, 1977–2015 · leading case: Rosette, Inc. v. United States of Dep't of the Interior, 169 P.3d 704 (N.M. Ct. App. 2007).
Rosette, Inc. v. United States of Dep't of the Interior, 169 P.3d 704 (N.M. Ct. App. 2007). “30 U.S.C. § 1002 . “Geothermal resources” are defined, in part, as “all products of geothermal processes, embracing indigenous steam, hot water and hot brines” and “heat or other associated energy found in geothermal formations.”
Pit River Tribe v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 793 F.3d 1147 (9th Cir. 2015). “At the end of that term, the Secretary must grant a continuation of the lease for a term up to 40 additional years if “geothermal steam is produced or utilized in commercial quantities.”
Stanley K. Mann v. United States, 334 F.3d 1048 (Fed. Cir. 2003). “30 U.S.C. § 1002 (2000). In October 1981, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) issued a ten-year geothermal lease, which was eventually reassigned to Mr.”
The Sierra Club v. Stanley K. Hathaway, 579 F.2d 1162 (9th Cir. 1978). “30 U.S.C. § 1002 . A Known Geothermal Resource Area is defined as: [A]n area in which the geology, nearby discoveries, competitive interests, and other indicia would, in the opinion of the Secretary, engender a belief in men who *1165 are experienced in the subject matter that…”
Wagner v. Chevron Oil Co., 321 F. Supp. 2d 1195 (D. Nev. 2004). “Although the main thrust of the Geothermal Steam Act is to empower the DOI with the authority to lease federal land to develop geothermal resources, 30 U.S.C. § 1002 , the Act also permits federal lessees to join a “cooperative or unit plan of development or operation” with each…”
Occidental Geothermal, Inc. v. Simmons, 543 F. Supp. 870 (N.D. Cal. 1982). “In the 1970 Act, Congress authorized the sale by the Secretary of the Interior of “leases for the development and utilization of geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources .”
Mann v. United States, 53 Fed. Cl. 562 (Fed. Cl. 2002). “30 U.S.C. § 1002 . The Act provides that “[i]f geothermal steam is produced or utilized in commercial quantities within [the] term” of the lease, “such lease shall continue for so long thereafter as geothermal steam is produced or utilized in commercial quantities, but such…”
Getty Oil Co. v. Andrus, 433 F. Supp. 1317 (C.D. Cal. 1977). “1566 , 30 U.S.C.A. §§ 1002 , 1003 and 1023). The Court therefore has original federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.”
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