Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102
§1023 Rules and Regulations
Title 30 › CHAPTER 23 — GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES › § 1023
Summary
The Secretary must make rules needed to carry out this chapter. Those rules can cover preventing waste; conserving geothermal and other natural resources; protecting the public; and handling leases and development matters (like assignments, pooling, royalties, suspensions, bonds, surface use, and active development) and protecting water and other environmental quality.
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Title 30, §1023
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The Secretary shall prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem appropriate to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Such regulations may include, without limitation, provisions for (a) the prevention of waste, (b) development and conservation of geothermal and other natural resources, (c) the protection of the public interest, (d) assignment, segregation, extension of terms, relinquishment of leases, development contracts, unitization, pooling, and drilling agreements, (e) compensatory royalty agreements, suspension of operations or production, and suspension or reduction of rentals or royalties, (f) the filing of surety bonds to assure compliance with the terms of the lease and to protect surface use and resources, (g) use of the surface by a lessee of the lands embraced in his lease, (h) the maintenance by the lessee of an active development program, and (i) protection of water quality and other environmental qualities.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–58 inserted section catchline.
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 section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed by Pub.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.
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Citation
30 U.S.C. § 1023
Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102