Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73
§1025 Federal reservation of certain mineral rights
Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 23— - GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES › § 1025
Summary
The United States keeps ownership of oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium that come from geothermal development on lands leased under this law, under current law. The Secretary can make rules for taking them, but doing so must not substantially interfere with geothermal production.
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Title 30, §1025
Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The United States reserves the ownership of and the right to extract under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from all geothermal resources produced from lands leased under this chapter in accordance with presently applicable laws: Provided, That whenever the right to extract oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from geothermal resources produced from such lands is exercised pursuant to this section, it shall be exercised so as to cause no substantial interference with the production of geothermal resources from such lands.
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Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–58 inserted section catchline and substituted “geothermal resources” for “geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources” wherever appearing in text.
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30 U.S.C. § 1025
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73