§226c — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

Summary

Royalties on federal oil and gas leases that required more than 12½% must be cut to 12½% of the production removed or sold, effective August 8, 1946. This does not apply to leases given or to be given by competitive bidding. The cut applies only in three cases, as determined by the Secretary: lands not within the productive limits of any deposit as of August 8, 1946; production from a deposit discovered after May 27, 1941 by wells drilled inside the lease and found to be a new deposit; and production assigned to a lease under an approved unit or cooperative agreement from a deposit discovered after May 27, 1941 on land in that agreement, where the lease was part of the agreement or part of a filed application when the deposit was found.

Title 30, §226c

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From and after August 8, 1946, the royalty obligation to the United States under all leases requiring payment of royalty in excess of 12½ per centum, except leases issued or to be issued upon competitive bidding, is reduced to 12½ per centum in amount or value of production removed or sold from said leases as to (1) such leases, or such part of the lands subject thereto, and the deposits underlying the same, as are not believed to be within the productive limits of any oil or gas deposit, as such productive limits are found by the Secretary to exist on August 8, 1946, and (2) any production on a lease from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, by a well or wells drilled within the boundaries of the lease, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit; and (3) any production on or allocated to a lease pursuant to an approved unit or cooperative agreement from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, on land committed to such agreement, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit, where such lease was included in such agreement at the time of discovery, or was included in a duly executed and filed application for the approval of such agreement at the time of discovery.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

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

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Savings Provision

See note set out under section 181 of this title. Outer Continental Shelf; Refunds on Mineral-Lease PaymentsRefunds of excess payments with respect to oil, gas, and other leases on submerged lands of outer Continental Shelf, see section 1339 of Title 43, Public Lands.

§226c Reduction of royalties under existing leases