Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73
§189 Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation
Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 3A— - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 189
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can make rules and take actions needed to carry out the chapter, and can set boundary lines for structures or oil and gas fields for those purposes. State and local governments keep their existing rights, including the power to tax improvements, mine output, or property or rights of anyone leasing from the United States.
Full Legal Text
Title 30, §189
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this chapter, also to fix and determine the boundary lines of any structure, or oil or gas field, for the purposes of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed or held to affect the rights of the States or other local authority to exercise any rights which they may have, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or other rights, property, or assets of any lessee of the United States.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate
Regulations
under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 97–100, title II, § 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. See
House Report No. 97–315
, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981. Outer Continental Shelf;
Rules and Regulations
With Respect to Leases
Rules and Regulations
with respect to mineral leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf to be prescribed by Secretary of the Interior, see section 1334 of Title 43, Public Lands.
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Citation
30 U.S.C. § 189
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73