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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73

§191a Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases

Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 3A— - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 191a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Interest or other late charges paid to the United States for late royalties, rent, bonuses, or other amounts under leases for oil, gas, coal, other minerals, or geothermal steam must be deposited and distributed the same way as the original payments. This applies to charges paid on or after July 1, 1988; charges paid before that date and already distributed are approved and won’t be recovered unless the original amount wasn’t actually owed.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §191a

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Any interest or other charges paid to the United States by reason of the late payment of any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount due to the United States under any lease issued by the United States for the extraction of oil, gas, coal, or any other mineral, or for geothermal steam, shall be deposited in the same account and distributed to the same recipients, in the same manner, as such royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount.
(b)Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a), which is paid to the United States on or after July 1, 1988.
(c)Any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a), which was paid to the United States before July 1, 1988, and distributed to any State or other recipient is hereby deemed to be authorized and approved as of the date of payment or distribution, and no part of any such payment or distribution shall be recouped from the State or other recipient. This subsection shall not apply to interest or other charges paid in connection with any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount determined not to be owing to the United States.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Congaree Swamp National Monument Expansion and Wilderness Act, and not as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which com­prises this chapter.

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 191a

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73