Upon establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of oil or gas have been discovered within the limits of the land embraced in any permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for one-fourth of the land embraced in the prospecting permit: Provided, That the permittee shall be granted a lease for as much as one hundred and sixty acres of said lands, if there be that number of acres within the permit. The area to be selected by the permittee, shall be in reasonably compact form and, if surveyed, to be described by the legal subdivisions of the public-land surveys; if unsurveyed, to be surveyed by the Government at the expense of the applicant for lease in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the lands leased shall be conformed to and taken in accordance with the legal subdivisions of such surveys; deposits made to cover expense of surveys shall be deemed appropriated for that purpose, and any excess deposits may be repaid to the person or persons making such deposit or their legal representatives. Such leases shall be for a term of twenty years upon a royalty of 5 per centum in amount or value of the production and the annual payment in advance of a rental of $1 per acre, the rental paid for any one year to be credited against the royalties as they accrue for that year, and shall continue in force otherwise as prescribed in section 226 of this title for leases issued prior to August 21, 1935. The permittee shall also be entitled to a preference right to a lease for the remainder of the land in his prospecting permit at a royalty of not less than 12½ per centum in amount or value of the production nor more than the royalty rate prescribed by regulation in force on January 1, 1935, for secondary leases issued under this section, and under such other conditions as are fixed for oil or gas leases issued under section 226 of this title the royalty to be determined by competitive bidding or fixed by such other method as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe: Provided further, That the Secretary shall have the right to reject any or all bids.
Notes of Decisions
Naartex Consulting Corp., Russell Huff v. James G. Watt, Sec'y of Interior, 722 F.2d 779 (D.C. Cir. 1983).
“§ 1001 makes it a crime punishable by up to five years imprisonment and $10,000 fine “knowingly and willfully [to] conceal [ ] or cover[ ] up by any trick, scheme or device a material fact, or [to] make[ ] any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations” in…”
Cont'l Oil Co. v. United States. United States v. Cont'l Oil Co., 184 F.2d 802 (9th Cir. 1950).
· cites it 2× “442 , 30 U.S.C.A. § 223 . The Secretary of the Interior, asserting that the posted prices for crude oil in the field, and the prices at which these companies sold and disposed of natural dry gas and natural-gas gasoline, 1 and upon which they calculated and paid royalty under…”
Wyoming v. United States Dep't of the Interior, 136 F. Supp. 3d 1317 (D. Wyo. 2015).
“Specifically for oil and gas leasing, the MLA, inter alia, establishes terms of the lease and royalty and rental amounts ( 30 U.S.C. §§ 223 , 226(d) & (e)), requires the lessee to “use all reasonable precautions to prevent waste of oil or gas developed in the land” (id.”
United States v. Gen. Petroleum Corp., 73 F. Supp. 225 (S.D. Cal. 1947).
“” 30 U.S.C.A. § 223 . There were two general sets of regulations which the Secretary promulgated under the Act and which were in force at the date of the leases now before the court-The first were the regulations of 1920, containing a proposed standard form of lease.”
West v. United States ex rel. Alling, 30 F.2d 739 (D.C. Cir. 1929).
“” Section 14 of the act (30 USCA § 223) provides: “That upon establishing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of oil or gas have been discovered within the limits of the land embraced in any permit, the permittee shall be entitled to a…”
Devon Energy Prod. Co. v. DOI (10th Cir. 2026).
“See 30 U.S.C. § 223 . The value is generally the amount that the lessee obtains when selling the gas in an arm’s-length transaction.”
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